Every Adam Sandler Movie Ranked Worst To Best

41. Going Overboard (1989)

The best part of Going Overboard, Adam Sandler's mercifully obscure and borderline unwatchable debut, is that it allowed the future star to form many connections -- with directors Peter Berg and Steven Brill -- that would shape his career once it finally took off and knew what to do with him.

In Going Overboard, Sandler's charm is nowhere to be found, and neither is his joy. Like the film itself, which follows a comedian hired as a waiter on a cruise ship, he's stranded by empty jokes, an emptier budget, and...a terrorist threat?

Yeah, Sandler's debut is nothing to write home about, and looking back it's probably for the best he was hired by Saturday Night Live a year after its release. Who knows where he would have ended up without it, having just this train wreck (or is that ship wreck?) on his resumé.