Bobby
Boucher (Adam Sandler), the much-abused waterboy of a successful college
football team, gets fired but finds his true calling as a player for the
neighboring down-and-out team. Unfortunately, his Momma doesn't approve of
football (or as she calls it, foosball) and Bobby has to keep his gridiron
success a secret. One of Sandler's biggest hits, featuring a group of bizarre
Cajun characters and a sweetly goofy plot. Adam Sandler is charming and
disarming as he dusts off and mashes together his beloved SNL charcters Cajun
Man and Canteen Boy to create Bobby Boucher, the sweet-tempered, simple-minded,
bayou man-child who relishes his job of eighteen years as the much-abused
waterboy for the local "good" (well-funded but nasty of spirit)
university's football team. True to the appropriate cine-formula, there is also
a nearby "bad" (under-funded but generous of spirit) university where
Bobby seeks tenure after finally being driven away from his long-time place of
employment by the relentless cruelty of those whom he seeks only to refresh and
hydrate. It is under the kindly tutelage of the "lesser" university's
down-and-out football coach (Henry Winkler phones it in, but warmly) that Bobby
realizes his unusual athletic prowess and develops some basic people skills.
Kathy Bates has an enormous amount of fun, and is a laugh riot, as Bobby's
earthy, over-protective, swamp-shack-dwelling mom; and Fairuza Balk is
accessibly luscious in a Daisy Mae turn as Bobby's resourceful, tomboyish,
creole-cutie sweetheart. Deadpan delivery, satisfying sight gags, and
"elbow-your-neighbor-and-point-at-the-screen" cameos make this an
attractive option for fans of the genre. "I'm gonna open up a can of
whupass." Bobby (Sandler) "...Sandler makes the laughs go down
easy..." "...Adam Sandler has scored himself a buoyantly silly sports
farce..." "...Loony, unapologetic fun....This escapist comedy is so
cheerfully outlandish that it's hard to resist, and so good-hearted that it's
genuinely endearing..."
