Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids come to life and step out of their animated, inner-city Philadelphia world.Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids come to life and step out of their animated, inner-city Philadelphia world.Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids come to life and step out of their animated, inner-city Philadelphia world.
- Awards
- 3 nominations
Marques Houston
- Dumb Donald
- (as Marques B. Houston)
Aaron Frazier
- Old Weird Harold
- (as Aaron A. Frazier)
J. Mack Slaughter
- Arthur
- (as J. Mack Slaughter Jr.)
Fonzworth Bentley
- Salesman
- (as Derek 'Mr. Bentley' Watkins)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAn open casting call was held in both New York and Los Angeles in hopes to cast an unknown kid actor for the role of Fat Albert. After the exhaustive search in both cities proved futile, the producers offered the part to Kenan Thompson.
- GoofsCable stations such as TVLand do not interrupt their broadcasts for special news reports.
- Crazy creditsAs 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.
- SoundtracksFat Albert TV Theme
Written by Ricky Sheldon and Ed Fournier (as Edward Martin Fournier)
Produced by Damon Elliott for Elliott Entertainment, Inc.
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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.
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Chú Mập Albert
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $26,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $48,116,322
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,021,510
- Dec 26, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $48,551,322
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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