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6 November 1998 (USA) moreTagline:
The Water-Boy is The Devil! morePlot:
A football team water boy discovers he has a unique tackling ability and becomes a member of the team. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
5 wins & 6 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Revenge Of The Cajun Nerd moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Adam Sandler | ... | Robert 'Bobby' Boucher Jr. | |
| Kathy Bates | ... | Helen 'Mama' Boucher | |
| Fairuza Balk | ... | Vicki Vallencourt | |
| Henry Winkler | ... | Coach Klein | |
| Jerry Reed | ... | Coach Red Beaulieu | |
| Larry Gilliard Jr. | ... | Derek Wallace | |
| Blake Clark | ... | Farmer Fran | |
| Peter Dante | ... | Gee Grenouille | |
| Jonathan Loughran | ... | Lyle Robideaux | |
| Al Whiting | ... | Casey Bugge | |
| Clint Howard | ... | Paco | |
| Allen Covert | ... | Walter | |
| Rob Schneider | ... | Townie | |
| Todd Holland | ... | Greg Meaney | |
| Robert Kokol | ... | Professor |
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Rated PG-13 for language and some crude sexual humor.Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
90 minCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishAspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Iceland:L | South Korea:12 | New Zealand:M | Philippines:G | Australia:M | Finland:K-8/5 | France:U | Germany:6 | Norway:7 | Portugal:M/6 | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 | Argentina:13 | Singapore:PGFun Stuff
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Derek gives Bobby his helmet, Casey calls Bobby a dink, but his mouth doesn't move. moreSoundtrack:
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I have to admit: this Adam Sandler no-brainer is hilarious, just had me laughing right from the start. I'd rank it in my top ten funny movies of my collection and it features one of my favorite characters in film: Bobby Boucher Jr., a heckuva lot nicer guy than Sandler's "Happy Gilmore."
"Bobby" is about as innocent and a gentle-natured a guy as you'll find this side of Forrest Gump. You can't help but root for him, and that's the idea. What the film basically involves is another "Revenge Of The Nerds" theme except it's "nerd "- singular - as the picked-on waterboy turning the tables on the football jocks. Interesting to once again see Jerry Reed, whom I haven't seen much of since his days in "Smokey And The Bandit." He has much fatter face but everything else looked the same. Then there is Henry Winkler, "The Fonz" who now is the opposite: a guy with a terrible inferiority complex. All the characters in here are wildly exaggerated.
This cartoon-like comedy may not be high-brow, but so what? It's not totally low- brow either, but I do wonder why modern filmmakers cannot seem to make a comedy without all the sex references and the profanity. Nonetheless, Sandler's Cajun accent, his strange-looking-but pretty girlfriend (Fairuza Balk) and crazy mother (Kathy Bates, in the funniest role she's ever played) are all great fun to watch.
It's silly, particularly the ridiculous climactic football game, but then this movie is hardly to be taken seriously. It's all absurd humor, and 90 minutes was just right amount of time for it.