Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
The Waterboy has generally received positive reviews.
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Review of The Waterboy (1998)
By Dragan Antulov (311) for Draxblog Movie Reviews (92) on 28 Feb 2005
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By Kevin N. Laforest (610) for Montreal Film Journal (589) on 09 Sep 2002
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The Waterboy was released in 1998 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 602 reviews, giving The Waterboy (1998) an average rating of 62%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 69%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 51%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Waterboy than critics were.
With a score of 62%, The Waterboy is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1998, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1998 with similar scores include films like Armageddon, Lethal Weapon 4 and Wild Things.
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