TUESDAY | NOVEMBER 10,1998 SIGNAL [23 Sandler applies his formula in Waterboy MOVIE REVIEW | The incompetent Coach Klein Waterboy \ Grade: B- who's at the end of his rope when he notices Bobby's Cissy Starks ability to "sack" the daylights Staff Writer out of the players who torment him. Coach Klein convinces is a comedy Bobby to be on the team and about a socially inept 31-year- sees him as the way out of old man who lives at home their constant losing streak. with his overprotecti ve, Bobby is the team's tackling controlling mother. fuel. If the plot sounds familiar, comedian , (The that's because it's not very Wedding Singer, Happy original. The Waterboy is Gilmore) plays Bobby classic Adam Sandler. We've Boucher whose the constantly seen him play this role on tormented, academically Saturday Night Live, and in challenged water-boy for a his past films, Happy Gilmore local college football team. and . It Academy Award winner Kathy goes something like this: Bates (Titanic, Primary idiotic and annoying outcast Colors) authentically plays hated by everyone becomes

Mama Boucher, the swamp- hero admired and loved by all. Special SIGNAL root-bathtub-moonshine- Oh, and he gets the girl in guzzling, Bayou-born the end, too'. Adam Sandler plays the idiot hero in his latest release Waterboy. severely neurotic mother. Only the names have been The film opens with changed to make this seem of his criminal girlfriend Vicki a great football player who us can relate to. Bobby being relentlessly like a different movie. Vallencourt, Fairuza Balk plays with his heart. The team And that's the beauty of tormented by the football In this version of the sad (The Island of Dr. Moreau, hits a winning streak and ends Sandler's films. Although players and fired by the head Sandler story, the problem for The Craft) and Coach Klein. up playing in the Bourbon we've seen it many times coach. Bobby has no other Bobby is convincing his The Mud Dogs' don't Bowl. The twist comes when before, we like to see the good skills so he volunteers to be controlling mother to let him want Bobby on the team Mama finds out that her guy win, and that's what the Waterboy for the Mud play football. "Mama ain't because he's goofy and precious boy is playing makes this film enjoyable. Dogs', the worst football team havin' it, she don't want her they're afraid that he'll make football. An Academy Award in college history. boy playing no devils them look worse than they This film may appeal to winner it is not, but for an (Happy foolseball." already are. everyone who sees it because evening of laughs and great Days, The Great American Bobby plays behind his Eventually they realize Bobby is an underdog with big football sacks, The Waterboy Dream Machine) is the mothers back with the support that Bobby's an okay guy and dreams. He's someone most of is the movie to see.

NOVEMBER 6-12 The Farm: Angola USA War is hell and so is the Farm. The Farm is a documen­ tary about life inside one the most notorious US maxi­ mum security prisons: Angola. The inspiration for songs and institutionalization, Angola's walls are not guilt-free, and this documentary seeks to reflect the pain of its inmates.

NOVEMBER 8 Silent Movie Night Chan Marshall of Catpower provides piano accompani­ ment for The Passion of Joan Arc.

NOVEMBER 13 Silent Movie Night The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, with music by Pineal Ventana.

NOVEMBER 13-19 I Married a Strange Person The art of world-renowned animator Bill Plympton returns to Cinefest with I Married a Strange Person. This is his first animated feature and is worth seeing. The tag lines say it all: The honeymoon is definitely over! Ultra sexy! Ultra violent! Ultra funny!

The X-Files: Fight the Future Chris Carter's television hit cult series comes to the big Come by The Signal office to pick up your complimentary passes screen with a bang. Mulder continues his search for E.T. to a November 19th screening. while Scully puts up with his wacked-out conspiracy

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