{"id":107,"date":"2015-03-15T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T20:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefilmfreak.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2015-03-22T13:04:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T18:04:26","slug":"the-cobbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefilmfreak.com\/wordpress\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"The Cobbler"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Adam Sandler dives back in to the world of drama, as he stars in “The Cobbler”. Max Simken (Sandler) repairs shoes in the same New York shop that his family has owned for generations. Unhappy with the personal struggles in his daily life, Max stumbles upon a family machine that allows him to become the customers shoes he repairs with the machine. While walking in someone else’s shoes, Max finds out the true person underneath. \u201cThe Cobbler\u201d stumbles in the genre of two separate film genres. It\u2019s not an intriguing comedy because of it\u2019s lack of funny punchlines, and it\u2019s not a drama because it\u2019s characters are so unlikable that we never feel interested by the stories they tell. It fails at either attempt, and only leaves the movie struggling for a proper art direction. I personally was looking forward to Sandler\u2019s return to drama. After successful turns in \u201cReign Over Me\u201d, and \u201cPunch Drunk Love\u201d, Sandler has shown some decent acting talent hidden away under decades of torturous comedy. But \u201cThe Cobbler\u201d feels like the \u201cJack and Jill\u201d of drama movies. It\u2019s plot is ridiculous even for cartoon standards, and the movie never feels charming even with it\u2019s many celebrity cameos. Method Man, Steve Buscemi, and even Dustin Hoffman squander away any decent acting with a script that limits them to goofy subplots. If there is anything that works for this film, it\u2019s the fact that it\u2019s short enough (92 minutes) to never be anything memorable. The editing is poorly structured with many scenes running on for too long, and many script lines taking too long to reach their point. What i am interested in is how Sandler comedic fans will feel about such an effort, More than likely, it will come and go without much recognition due to it\u2019s straight to DVD release. At the worst, it\u2019s forgetful, but at it\u2019s best, it\u2019s a Twilight Zone style plot that cobbles up the viewer\u2019s intelligence (Pun intended). Short and sweet, there just isn’t enough here to demand a must see to any of the audience. Even the most united of Sandler fans will have trouble keeping the DVD in play, while maintaining conscious. Avoid this one. It’s not even worth a dollar rental.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3\/10 Adam Sandler dives back in to the world of drama, as he stars in “The Cobbler”. Max Simken (Sandler) repairs shoes in the same New York shop that his family has owned for generations. Unhappy with the personal struggles in his daily life, Max stumbles upon a family machine that allows him to become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefilmfreak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefilmfreak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefilmfreak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefilmfreak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefilmfreak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thefilmfreak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"http:\/\/thefilmfreak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefilmfreak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefilmfreak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefilmfreak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefilmfreak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}