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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 17926
Released: March 22, 2005 |
| Our Price: $3.26 |
| Used Price: $0.45 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Hey, Hey, Hey?you?re ?gonna have a good time? watching Fat Albert (Kenan Thompson) and his pals in their first feature-length movie! The beloved animated characters from the ?70s make the leap to live action to help a troubled teenager (Kyla Pratt) as they experience the heartfelt emotions and hilarious absurdities of the real world. Comedy genius Bill Cosby (creator of the original ?Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids? TV show) co-stars in this crowd-pleasing family favorite that?s bursting with fresh hip-hop music and tons of laughs!
Description of Fat Albert:
The bright cartoon colors of the Saturday morning classic Fat Albert get brought into the real world--or a Hollywood facsimile of reality, at any rate. When a teenage girl named Doris (Kyla Pratt) sheds a tear onto her TV's remote control, her unhappiness summons Fat Albert (Kenan Thompson, Barbershop 2), Mushmouth, Dumb Donald, Old Weird Harold, and the rest of the gang from Bill Cosby's popular cartoon (inspired by his childhood memories of growing up in Philadelphia). Doris is, to say the least, a little freaked out and doesn't really want Fat Albert to help solve her problems--but with the blithe confidence that only cartoon characters can have, Fat Albert and the gang follow her to school to root out the source of her misery. One of the movie's problems (which are legion) is that Doris's world isn't much more real than the cartoon one; it's a sterile, clean-cut caricature of a city neighborhood. In fact, the whole movie feels suspiciously like a commercial for a DVD of Fat Albert cartoons, an advertisement for which actually appears in the movie, making for a bizarrely self-referential product placement. Thompson, surprisingly, hangs on to his dignity in the face of the inane proceedings and even gives Fat Albert a hint of gravitas. --Bret Fetzer
Fat Albert Reviews:
Hey, Hey, Hey 
2009-10-08 - Kenan Thompson portrays fat albert like no one else. fat albert is a funny and entertaining movie. this movie is for the whole family to see. it's a must see
My Review Of Fat Albert
2009-01-31 - Fat Albert is a live-action adaptation of the 1970's Filmation cartoon created by Bill Cosby. Kenan Thompson and Kyla Pratt stars is this film where Fat Albert and the Junkyard Gang jumps out of their Saturday morning animated world and into reality. Bill Cosby also stars as himself where Fat Albert meets Cosby for the first time. This is a funny and heartwarming film that is great for Fat Albert fans of all ages.
A sugar-coated Hollywood Money Maker $$$$ 
2008-09-08 - The cartoon character Fat Albert is totally different from this character. When did a hot female ever hang out with Fat Albert anyway? NEVER! This is fine for kids under 13, but a 30-something like myself, awful. This is just typical "we have no new ideas in Hollywood, so we'll made a stupid and predictable cartoon-to-live-action-movie piece of crap". This is made totally for kids and parents that will tolerate watching it. Family fare.. possibly, but I warn those who dig my reviews! Until Then Folks...
Hey, Hey, Hey...This Movie Is Really Okay! 
2008-06-21 - Call me a nostalgic old-coot, but I like revisiting my childhood. This "continuation" of the classic 1970's Bill Cosby-created cartoon is actually not half bad. First, the casting of the gang are pretty much spot-on, with Kenan "SNL" Thompson heading-up as Albert. The rest of the cast features young black actors most of us saw while changing channels on the likes of UPN, the WB, and the like. It seems in cartoon-land, the characters do each episode every time exactly the same until one day a young girl crying over her remote creates a porthole into Fat Albert's world while watching the re-run. He and gang, always looking to help whoever needs it, goes through, and boom, there they are. The storyline isn't complex, but towards the end when Albert looks up ole Cosby himself to try to figure out what to do, it pays off in the end as to why he ended up there in the first place, and actually is sorta touching in the process. Not kidding, really.
But that's not to say the film doesn't have it's own set of flaws. The animation is updated losing alot of it's Filmation charm. Even with a 2.35.1 widescreen, they had no room for Russell (the littlest one, Bill's brother), Kenan while able to do the "Hey, Hey, Hey" bit well, can't sing his way outta a paper bag, the "Mushmouth" accent is done horribly here, and finally, the coolest character "Rudy" dressed like a pimp with sarcasm dripping in the cartoon, seems too nice now and needed to stand out more instead of being like all the rest.
But I've seen alot of my childhood shows brought back with mixed results, but unlike say "The Brady Bunch" who didn't realize that they were stuck in the 70's, "Fat Albert" knows it, and knows why they have to go back. A decent kids movie & a nice trip back for the ones that formerly were.
(RedSabbath Rating:7.5/10)
Was the best movie ever.
2008-05-18 - I have to say that this movie is one of the most funny and best movies ever. I'm glad that I purchased it because I really truly love Omarion especially since he is the love of my life and the man of my dreams. I love the way he played his role as Reggie in the movie. He is so fine and sexy all over. Overall, the entire movie is great and hilarious. I'll recommend this movie to the entire family to watch together.
