Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Best Kiss" with Drew Barrymore at the MTV Awards. This time, uniting with The Wedding Singer director Frank Coraci, the childish, rambunctiously funny Sandler has returned to the silver screen with his usual flair for the idiotic in The Waterboy, an entertaining film that shamelessly milks every ounce of laughter out of a few simple concepts...
...onestriking similarity: the football team isdiscouraged and defeated in the first half withoutits star player, but rejoices when the slobbering,poodle-brained hero prances onto the field. Thebest part of the final scenes is the presence ofRob Schneider as a dirty, smelly and perverteddrunk that squeezes riotous laughter out of therepeated phrase...
...Waterboy is definitely worth seeingfor quite a few cheap, mindless laughs. Sandleris at peak form, creating an outlandishlyridiculous, idiotic and character that capturesyour sympathy and your laughter. The plot is weakand often hackneyed, but Sandler's hilariousphysical comedy is reminiscent of the great JerryLewis. So go see The Waterboy if youcackled wildly at the immature, adolescent humorof Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore,but not if you desire the cozy, sweet, romanticcomedy of The Wedding Singer. Maybe"Canteen Boy" doesn't have a sensitive side afterall
...consensus of nodding heads makes it clear that no one is taking offense. He proceeds along similar lines for most of the show: "There are no Jewish athletes. All we had was Mark Spitz. He took one swim, got nauseous and quit." Sometimes he probes deeper, managing to combine laughter and the uncomfortable (arguing, for instance, that Jews find solace in the medical field because they can't be persecuted). Generally, however, Jackie's comedy depends on praising or humiliating the Jew--in comparison, of course, to other races...
...stop every so often to let us know that "Racists are the scum of the earth" and that making fun of others is morally wrong. But why even bother? Instead of finding the truth at the heart of an issue and presenting it in a way that inspires laughter (and possibly understanding), he occasionally gets stuck trying to be defensive. Whenever he tries to qualify his jokes, the show momentarily screeches to a halt...