Frank Coraci

A strange hybrid of Verne's story, goofy Disney fare like The Absent-Minded Professor, and cheerily anachronistic Jackie Chan buddy comedies like Shanghai Knights.

The tone set by director Frank Coraci tends to the cartoonishly broad while making jokes at the expense of grotesques.

There's an innocence to The Waterboy that makes the picture part slapstick and part fairy tale...The only problem with letting kids see this Adam Sandler movie? They might want to see another one.

Purees your brain for two hours...proudly and pointedly credited as 'A Frank Coraci Movie'—not a film, y’hear? Nerd-os, go home!