You have to give some credit to Adam Sandler. He has done something that is very difficult to do. He has made both a truly stupid comedy and a marginally good film. The film is often very funny, and the characters are lovable. Now if only they weren't so ... stupid!
Sandler plays Bobby Boucher, a 31 year old virgin, cajun and mama's boy. His career aspiration is to be the waterboy for the University of Louisiana's football team. Meek and stammering, he is the subject of much ridicule from his team, even including venal coach Red Beaulieu (Jerry Reed). When fired, he goes to work as waterboy for the SCLSU Mud Dogs. Their coach (Henry Winkler) is much nicer, but their team is much worse, cursed with a forty game losing streak.
Poor Boucher is still subject to abuse from the players. Coach tells him to fight back, and it turns out that Boucher can tackle. This being a comedy, he is in fact by far the greatest tackler of all time. It must be due to his diet of fried alligators, served to him by his comically disturbed mother (Kathy Bates). She thinks that everything belonging to the outside world is the work of the devil, all the better reason to keep her son close at hand.
Due solely to Boucher's tackling skills, SCLSU begins winning games, earning a bowl game opposite arch-rival U of L. Boucher also gets a girlfriend, luscious and wild-eyed ex-convict Vicki Vallencourt (Fairuza Balk). The most ridiculous of the supporting characters is assistant coach Farmer Fran (Blake Clark). Since nothing that Farmer Fran says is intelligible, how exactly does he contribute to SCLSU's football program? Well, never mind, he's still funny, as is everything else here.
Sandler is a good comic actor, and he knows how to build characters that have both originality and marginal depth. He has more talent for slapstick than screenwriting. He is better at developing gags than one-liners. He aims for the obvious, and who can blame him, since the formula has paid off so well for him. Only Jim Carrey has had more success with comedies in the 1990s. I have a feeling that Sandler will be able to keep cranking out these sort of films ("Happy Gilmore", "Billy Madison", "Big Daddy") for many years to come. (61/100)
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