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THE WATERBOY may not be the worst movie of the year, but it's got my vote as most tedious. (And this coming from a PLEASANTVILLE survivor. Ugh.) Adam Sandler stars as a mush-mouthed Cajun col- lege football flunkie whose promotion from "water distribution engineer" to chief tackler rescues the team, makes him famous, outrages his momma (Kathy Bates, exceptionally eccentric), and threatens to get him laid. (And not necessarily in that order...) Director Frank Coraci worked with Sandler on THE WEDDING SINGER and, impossible as it sounds, they've dumbed themselves down even further. A packed house of teens (on a Tuesday night!) roared at every sound-effects enhanced hit that Sandler's stunt double de- livered. (The, er, "funnier" of which are conveniently shown in the trailer.) There are other sources of humor, thank God, from obvious sight gags to such surreal non sequiters as a Roy Orbison tattoo on someone's ass or, even weirder, the flashback sight of co-stars Henry Winkler and Jerry Reed in afros! Scary. With Fairuza Balk, a oddly accented Rob Schneider, and Clint Howard, whose mentally-challenged fan hollars the film's most memorable line "let's kick some names and take some ass!" (Rated "PG-13"/90 min.) Grade: D Copyright 1998 Michael J. Legeros Movie Hell is a trademark of Michael J. Legeros
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MOVIE HELL: November 16, 1998