Fat Albert (2004)

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids come to life and step out of their animated, inner-city Philadelphia world.

Director:

Joel Zwick

Writers:

Bill Cosby (as William H. Cosby Jr. Ed.D.), Charles Kipps

Stars:

Kenan Thompson, Kyla Pratt, Omarion

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kenan Thompson	...	Fat Albert
Kyla Pratt	...	Doris
Dania Ramirez	...	Lauri
Shedrack Anderson III	...	Rudy
Aaron Frazier	...	Old Weird Harold (as Aaron A. Frazier)
Marques Houston	...	Dumb Donald (as Marques B. Houston)
Alphonso McAuley	...	Bucky
Keith Robinson	...	Bill (as Keith D. Robinson)
Jermaine Williams	...	Mushmouth
Aaron Carter	...	Teen
Omarion	...	Reggie (as Omari Grandberry)
J. Mack Slaughter	...	Arthur (as J. Mack Slaughter Jr.)
Nick Zano	...	Camera Salesman
Annie Abbott	...	Mrs. Forchick
Alice Greczyn	...	Becky

Storyline

An obese boy named Fat Albert and his friends Rudy, Mushmouth, Bill, Dumb Donald, Russell, and Weird Harold, pulls into trouble when they "fall" out of their TV world into the real world, where Fat Albert tries to help a young girl, Doris, make friends. However, the simple life of the group is interrupted when Fat Albert falls for Doris' older sister, Lauri, sparking his friends to worry that their leader may never want to return to his cartoon world again.

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Plot Keywords:

television | love | animated sequence | party | junkyard | 

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Taglines:

Hey! Hey! Hey! Christmas Day

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Genres:

Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for momentary language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 December 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

Albert, o Gordo

Filming Locations:

Santa Clarita, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$26,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$10,021,510, 26 December 2004, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$48,116,322, 7 April 2005

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$48,551,322, 31 December 2005

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox, Davis Entertainment, The Culver Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Bill Cosby, who appears as himself, was the voice of Fat Albert as well as other characters, in the animated TV series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972).

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Goofs

When the guys are in the junkyard looking to build some "wheels" to take the girls to the party, the train that rolls by is a Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Metrolink.

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Quotes

Doris: Fat Albert, wait! I finally figured out who you remind me of. You remind me of my grandfather.
Fat Albert: Hey, hey, hey, that's a nice thing to say.

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Crazy Credits

As the end credits begin, the animated Fat Albert starts to sing the title song again. Suddenly the live action Fat Albert bursts halfway through the picture, 'looking out' at the audience and picking out audience members, saying that he has to stop the movie so he can help them and telling one guy in the back getting out of his seat that he needs to stick around for the end credits. At this point the cartoon versions of the Cosby Kids finally manage to pull Albert back into their world, and the end credits continue.

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Connections

Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Worst Live-Action Movies Based on Cartoons (2013)

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Soundtracks

Dancin' in the Moonlight
Written by Sherman Kelly
Performed by Baha Men
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Strategic Marketing

User Reviews

A refreshing break from all the raunchy "kids" movies out there.

For the most part, when "family" and "movie" are right next to each other in the same sentence, my first instinct is to run as fast as I can the other way. But with a movie pass about to expire, and nothing else in the theater that piqued my interest (Christmas With the Kranks? NO THANK YOU!), I sat down in my seat with no expectations. I haven't seen the original TV series in years, but I've always been a big fan of Bill Cosby, and I was immediately put at ease when the credit "Written by Bill Cosby" came up. Bill's script keeps the spirit of the original characters intact, and incorporates them into the real world without an overkill of "Oh, wow! Things are so different now!" style of jokes. This movie is made for kids, not at kids. Things are kept simple without being condescending, and at no time will adults have to talk their way out of explaining something "adult" to the kiddies. In the end, while this movie won't win any technical or artistic awards, it's still a fun little movie that the whole family can enjoy, and for once, that's a good thing. B-plus.