The basic themes and elements are nothing new-it's basically The Shoemaker and the Elves revisited. But Tex Avery had a tendancy to take the conventional and stretch and twist it into something quite odd indeed! This is not your grandfather's fairy tale! Chuck Jones once quoted Rafael Sabbatini to describe Tex Avery and I'll close with that here: He was born with the gift of laughter and a belief that the world was mad. That, my friends, I submit, is a description of genius and fits Tex Avery quite well. Well worth watching. Most recommended.
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llltdesq26 February 2002
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boblipton3 October 2020Tex Avery uses the old fairy tale of the poor cobbler and the brownies as a hook to hang an assort of gags on in this standard-for-him cartoon.
his being a Tex Avery movie, it's all about cramming as many gags into the space as six minutes will permit, which he proceeds to do. There are some interesting sequences showing footwear dancing that looks like it was rotoscoped. Otherwise it's all standard Avery hilarity. -
rjhatton28 May 2022A remake of Friz Freleng's 1946 "Holiday for Shoestrings." As much as I like Tex's works, it's kind of sad that he lifted the whole cartoon, tightening up the gags a little too much. Poor second to "Holiday..."
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pixrox13 August 2022. . . in THE PEACHY COBBLER. That's because a tightwad "poverty row" alleged film studio scribbled a cheap rip-off version of Warner Brothers' far superior HOLIDAY FOR SHOESTRINGS four years AFTER the latter's release from a respectable quorum of actual animators. The House of the Infamous Groaning Fat Cat, on the other hand, was too miserly and penny-pinching to pay the necessary likeness fees to have Laurel and Hardy appear in their low-budget imitation of the humorous rendition of this story. Always out to avenge perceived slights, producer\director Fred Avery--pink-slipped by Warner--once again diminished himself more than his ex-employer by constructing what is essentially a counterfeit shot-for-shot remake of STRINGS with all the chuckle-worthy humor and hilariously funny bits cut out, extracted and missing. Fred's post-Warner years were even worse than Babe Ruth's .181 final season batting average for the Boston Braves, the worst team in Modern National League history (that is, of the past 122 years).
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TheLittleSongbird5 November 2017Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons.
Also have much admiration for Tex Avery, an animation genius whose best cartoons are animated masterpieces and some of the best he ever did. Avery did do better than 'The Peachy Cobbler', cartoons that are more original and more inventive visually and in narrative but it's still very well made and entertaining. Even when Avery was not quite at the top of his game he put many other animation directors to shame and the cartoons in general much better than many at their worst. Hope that doesn't sound too hyperbolic, unfair or ignorant.
The story is a fairly conventional one, basically 'The Elves and the Shoemaker' story with an Avery twist that is well done but done more imaginatively and cleverly in other cartoons of his based on famous stories. Occasional limitations show in the background art.
However, much of the animation is very good. Very rich in colour, the backgrounds have mostly good detail and the character designs are distinctively Avery in style and are fluid in movement. The music, courtesy of Scott Bradley, is lushly and cleverly orchestrated, with lively and energetic rhythms and fits very well indeed, even enhancing the action.
Can't fault Avery, whose style is all over, nor the dynamic voice acting from Daws Butler and the very engaging characters. The pacing is very lively and like one would expect from Avery 'The Peachy Cobbler' is very funny and well timed.
Overall, well made and entertaining. 8/10 Bethany Cox