Funny reviews on Amazon have developed a cult following of sorts, and even spawned their own community on Reddit, so the ecommerce giant decided to hop on the bandwagon, with help from a two-time Academy Award-nominated actor.
Adam Driver is narrating some of Amazon’s “funniest and most iconic” five-star product reviews for the company’s “5-Star Theatre” campaign in the U.S., leading up to Black Friday week.
Driver gives actual reviews for products including a banana slicer, Elf on the Shelf, and a massage gun “a voice worthy of the customers who wrote them,” lending his dramatic chops to the spots, which were produced in the format of a one-man show.
The actor said in a statement: “What’s more compelling than the deeply personal, yet very public, Amazon review? Immortalized readings of the marriage saving qualities of a banana slicer? The nuances of rubber duck collecting? Nothing says the holidays like grabbing a glass...
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