In recent years, it seems Adam Sandler has been cranking out some real clunkers- and with this recent movie, "The Cobbler"- I don't even remember this one being released-?? I would say his career peaked right around the mid-late 2000s with films like "Reign Over Me", "Click" and "Funny People". It seemed that in spite of him doing the mainstream comedies, he was still dabbling in some more serio-dramatic films, and were pretty decent to boot. But in recent years, with films like "Jack and Jill", "That's My Boy", and whatever the latest "Grown-ups" installment is, his film career is dangerously close to falling off into that direct-to-video (now on-demand) abyss-?? Hopefully, this summer's "Pixels" will re-invigorate things for him-??
Okay, on with my review-->> "The Cobbler" has a decent-enough premise- the story of a shoe repairman (Sandler) who is given the mystical power to literally "step inside someone's shoes" every time he puts them on. I like this idea for a comedy film- but this movie just delivers a poor execution unfortunately. It's not really all that funny- in fact, I barely recall even laughing once-?? The film even gets a little sadistic at times. I don't mind that normally, but for this film, it just didn't work. Melonie Diaz, Ellen Barkin, Oscar winner, Dustin Hoffman, and Sandler regular, Steve Buscemi, co-stars.
Okay, on with my review-->> "The Cobbler" has a decent-enough premise- the story of a shoe repairman (Sandler) who is given the mystical power to literally "step inside someone's shoes" every time he puts them on. I like this idea for a comedy film- but this movie just delivers a poor execution unfortunately. It's not really all that funny- in fact, I barely recall even laughing once-?? The film even gets a little sadistic at times. I don't mind that normally, but for this film, it just didn't work. Melonie Diaz, Ellen Barkin, Oscar winner, Dustin Hoffman, and Sandler regular, Steve Buscemi, co-stars.