Film Preview: The Cobbler (2015)

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(December 6, 2015) Original

Release Date:

March 13, 2015

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “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.”

Poster Rating: C / D / D / C- / C / C-

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Review: (#1) The first in a line of unexceptional designs that capitalizes solely on Adam Sandler’s familiarity, but without a decent sense of theme or purpose. (#2) A teaser “worthy” of a major Hollywood effort, but not of a small release. (#3) A cheap attempt to suggest the film has a cross-dressing scene, which for Adam Sandler fans might be catnip, but is rather cheap and overly theatrical when the trailer doesn’t suggest he ever inhabits a woman’s body.

(#4 & #5) Almost identical designs that are not interesting and not very exciting. The latter design is bolstered only by adding a detailed background rather than a cheap white background. (#6) It’s the original design with a large and distracting white title bar covering up the details.

Trailer Rating: B-

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Review: Somewhere in this trailer is an interesting concept unable to find its way out. The idea has merit, but the trailer is slapdash claptrap without a singular purpose for driving audiences successfully to the theater.