Director Tom McCarthy
Starring Adam Sandler, Melonie Diaz, Steve Buscemi
Rated M
Score 1/6

A cobbler, bored of his everyday life, stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to become other people and see the world in a different way.

The unfestival director saved something that could be described as being a little cruel and unusual for their fifth and final choice. Its been about ten years since the last time I willingly went to watch an Adam Sandler movie in the cinema and it might have been even longer since he was actually funny.

The Cobbler actually had the potential to be something special, especially with the ‘to truly know a man you must walk in his shoes’ vibe that seemed to be trying to embrace but it came off as being a little self-indulgent. Now if The Cobbler had of openly embraced that vibe it would have been a better movie to watch, granted it ran the risk of mozzarella cheese levels of cheesiness but it would have eliminated some of the pain. Though that could have been achieved easier by not casting Adam Sandler.

In my review for Circle I talked about how an actor is perceived by the public impacts the movies that they are in. Well Adam Sandler is beaten by that on a regular basis, though those beatings do seem justified. Sandler’s performance was a littler understated. I’m not saying that he needed to be completely over the top. But I feel that what was needed for his character to succeed on the screen was a couple of outbursts on the level of Happy Gilmore and that just might of helped sell the lessons that he learnt in the final act of the movie.