The Waterboy Movie Essay

The film, The Waterboy, revolves around the story Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler), a waterboy for the University of Louisiana Cougars. Due to his lack of social skills and frequent stuttering, Bobby is the victim of constant abuse by members of the team and there head coach, Red Beaulieu (Jerry Reed) who eventually fires Bobby. Bobby eventually finds another waterboy job at South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs led by Coach Klein (Henry Winkler). After being mistreated by Mud Dog players, Coach Klein convinces Bobby to stand up for himself. Bobby sprints off the sideline and tackles the quarterback who was making fun of him, displaying an unexpected amount of physical prowess. Realizing his potential, Coach Klein offer Bobby

The opening scene displays a Mud Dog practice at which bobby is carrying excessive amounts of waterboy “gear” demonstrating the comedic side of the film. This comedic style is carried throughout the movie coming in a variety of forms such as: punchlines, slapstick, irony, and many other things. Adam Sandler does an excellent job portraying Bobby in a way that makes him the unusual yet undisputed protagonist. The inclusion of an extremely overprotective mother in Helen further adds to the humor of the movie. In many scenes she is seen combing Bobby’s hair and tucking him in at night, despite that he is over the age of thirty. Perhaps the most significant foreshadowing in the movie revolved around Helen, and her determination to not let Bobby play football. At one point in the movie, she fakes being sick just to distract her son from participating in the game, and it works as Bobby announced he would not play in the Bourbon Bowl despite a lack of support from his fan base. However, it was evident that this upset Helen and she was going to eventually encourage Bobby to play. A certain level of romance is also evident in the movie between Bobby Boucher and his “girlfriend” Vicki Vallencourt (Fairuza Balk). While this is not the main premise of the plot, the movie does end with the two getting married as a final hooray to