Now here is a movie for which the words "good-hearted" come straight to mind. It takes the characters of Bill Cosby's "Fat Albert" TV cartoon show from the 1970s, and sends them popping magically out ...
Fat Albert, Schoolhouse Rock, The Harlem Globetrotters: with their retro animation styles, these 1970s cartoons seem dated now, but in their time, they were groundbreaking. Before the 1960s, black ...
That’s how the movie deals with characters that are so badly one dimensional. Rather than build these characters up or build a world around them, Fat Albert (Kenan Thompson) and his friends are ...
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier: Fat Albert should have stayed in cartoon land
The big-screen "Fat Albert," mostly a live-action update of Bill Cosby's Saturday morning cartoon series, is a hokey, insipid, outdated mess that even the most nostalgic of parents and the most ...
Hey! Hey! Hey! Fat Albert’s back, but with a twist. The big guy and the rest of the gang from the ’70s hit cartoon, “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids,” are appearing on the silver screen. But this time ...
Watching this presentation of Fat Albert, you'd think Bill Cosby would be cringing somewhere in fear of what they've done to his character - a character that filled Cosby's goals of presenting a ...
Los Angeles Times: Big screen’s ‘Fat Albert’ goes heavy on the sugar
This “Fat Albert” sure ain’t phat. The feature film revival of the animated character based on Bill Cosby’s comedy routines and a staple of 1970s and ‘80s Saturday morning television eschews any ...