Fat Albert Movie Review 2004

Clunky live-action version of Bill Cosby's standup routines and the animated series "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids." Depressed South Philly teen Doris (Pratt) is watching TV Land reruns of the show when a magic portal opens up allowing Fat Albert (an agreeable Thompson) and his gang to pop into her living room. F.A. feels obliged to offer advice to help Doris gain some self-esteem and even develops a crush on Doris' popular foster sister, Lauri (Ramirez). Meanwhile, the '70s-era tooners react to the real world of the 21st century in expected fish-out-of-water ways. Hey, hey, hey is more why, why, why?

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 93 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Teen Comedy, Urban Comedy, Adapted from Television, Adapted from a Cartoon, African America, Teen Angst, Philadelphia

Screenplay

Bill Cosby, Charles Kipps

Cast

Kenan Thompson, Kyla Pratt, Marques Houston, Dania Ramirez, Omari (Omarion) Grandberry, Shedrack Anderson, Jermaine Williams, Keith D. Robinson, Alphonso McAuley, Aaron A. Frazier, J. Mack Slaughter

Cinematography

Paul Elliott

Director

Joel Zwick

Music

Richard Gibbs

Other

Bill Cosby, Stacy Brownrigg, Dave Jordan, Tony Lombardo, Francine Jamison-Tanchuck, Nina Ruscio

Producer

Jay B. Davis, David Entertainment Co., SAH Enterprises, 20th Century-Fox