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	Fat Albert Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Sadly, Fat Albert, the movie, is not that clever, instead becoming a fish-out-of-water Austin Powers / The Brady Bunch Movie gag in which Albert (played with incredibly accuracy by SNL's Kenan Thompson) and the rest of his junkyard gang wander North Philadelphia as relics of a funkier, squarer time.
		The short-circuit results in Fat Albert (Kenan Thompson, in a lumpy fat suit) and the rest of the '70s toon-crew diving (or squeezing) through the TV screen and into Doris' living room, where Albert is determined (in typical Albert fashion) to help Doris with her social problems.
		Fat Albert, with its affable main character and a decent, wholesome message at its core, might hold the interest of your young 'uns (thankfully, there are no poo-poo jokes or sexual innuendoes to be found).
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=139585 (1365 words)

	Fat Albert t-shirts
		Fat Albert didn’t make his initial debut on television, but as the subject of Bill Cosby’s stand-up comedy acts in the 1960’s.
		Albert and various other characters, such as Rudy, Weird Harold, and Russell, were patterned after Cosby’s friends in the Philadelphia neighborhood where he lived when he was young.
		Fat Albert and his friends Bill, Rudy, Mushmouth, Weird Harold, Russell, Bucky, and Dumb Donald often had to make difficult, critical decisions and sought guidance from their favorite superhero, the Brown Hornet.
	www.80stees.com /pages/t-shirts/Fat-Albert-tshirts.asp (365 words)

	This is the Official Blue Angels Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fat Albert Airlines An all-Marine Corps crew of three officers and five enlisted personnel operate the Lockheed- Martin C-130T Hercules, known as Fat Albert Airlines.
		Fat Albert cruises at a speed of more than 320 knots (approximately 350 miles per hour) at 27,000 feet.
		Fat Albert cruises at 320 knots, approximately 350 miles per hour, at 27,000 feet.
	www.blueangels.navy.mil /geninfo/fa_aline.html (315 words)

	WaffleMovies.com - Fat Albert
		Fat Albert (Kenan Thompson) sees Doris through the TV screen and assumes he's supposed to help her, just like he helps people on TV.
		The movie's most amusing scenes involve Fat Albert and the gang trying to adjust to the modern world and reacting with amazement to how different things are in real world North Philadelphia compared to the North Philadelphia in their TV world.
		Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids are a bunch of earnest, well-meaning kids in a jaded world, which leads to some good laughs.
	www.wafflemovies.com /fatalbert.html (712 words)

	Fat Albert -- FilmGuru.Net
		In the new film, Fat Albert and his friends find themselves pulled out of their cartoon world when a young girl watching the show cries and unwittingly summons them.
		Fat Albert is determined to help Doris, despite the fact that she claims that she doesn't have a problem.
		Fat Albert seeks out his creator in hopes of finding out why he is fading.
	www.filmguru.net /reviews/2004/041226.html (637 words)

	Fat Albert Review :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Despite good intentions, Fat Albert is a little too preachy to appeal to anyone but the youngest members of the audience, while the 1970s references to the cartoon--weak as they are--probably won't land on those same little ears.
		In the real world, Fat Albert falls in love; not with Doris, the girl he's helping, but her older sister, Lauri, (Dania Ramirez), who in turn has taken a shine to this selfless big lug.
		Fat Greek Wedding) staging, style and attitude are clearly geared toward kids, who likely won't miss the lack of real wit in the bickering exchanges between the gang but who may not get the references, including the opening animation, styled just like the mid-1970s show.
	www.hollywood.com /movies/reviews/movie/2429873 (904 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
		Fat Albert first appeared as a character in Bill Cosby's stand-up comedy routines.
		Fat Albert and his friends usually had important and socially relevant decisions to make.
		Despite the typical '70s pedantry, there was enough entertainment in Fat Albert to keep it running as a network show for a phenomenal twelve years, with new episodes produced during the first five.
	www.toonopedia.com /fatalbrt.htm (357 words)

	Fat Albert
		Now live action characters, Fat Albert and the gang try to solve Doris’ problem, but Doris is reluctant to let anyone into her life, especially a bunch of crazy, runaway cartoon characters.
		Slowly, Fat Albert breaks down her defenses, but things become more complicated when Fat Albert and his gang are themselves affected by the real world in unexpected ways.
		Thus, Fat Albert and his gang literally jump through the TV set to affect the lives of Doris and her foster sister.
	www.cbn.com /entertainment/screen/movieguide_FatAlbert.asp (757 words)

	"Fat Albert" (2004) / a review and/or comments from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Fat Albert is quite sure he is alive to solve Doris’s problem, even though he has no idea what that might be.
		Fat Albert never searched for trouble, and his whole purpose was to help others in need, which is what we Christians are here to show the world it is better to give than to receive.
		Fat Albert and his friends are gentlemen throughout the movie and lessons of selflessness and helping friends in need was strongly encouraged.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2004/fatalbert2004.html (1726 words)

	miaminewtimes.com \| Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fat Albert (Saturday Night Live's Kenan Thompson, padded) is a lovable young man who leaps from the television into the "real-world" living room of Doris (Kyla Pratt), a weeping high school student he intends to help.
		Albert's junkyard buddies, always in tow, follow him into the 21st century, where they're charmingly confounded by cell phones, hip-hop, and mean white girls.
		Albert falls in love, and Doris, though initially mortified by her kooky pals, gets the support she needs.
	www.miaminewtimes.com /listings/film/1000/index.html (170 words)

	Fat Albert Review by Jeremy C. Fox
		Fat Albert is the kind of movie that gives hackwork a bad name.
		So the whole gang pops out into a world where almost no one recognizes them, despite the fact that their show airs daily on TVLand (not true in our reality) and has just been released on DVD (conveniently, this is so), which fact is prominently advertised in the window of the corner video store.
		Albert and his gang busy themselves trying to find friends for Doris, while taking a break every few minutes to be mystified by current technology.
	www.pajiba.com /fat-albert.htm (533 words)

	Fat Albert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fat Albert came into being in the comedic routines of Bill Cosby.
		Most of the jokes in the script by Cosby (Leonard Part 6) and Charles Kipps deals with Fat Albert (Kenan Thompson, Barbershop 2, Love Don't Cost a Thing) and friends dealing with things in the real world.
		These emotions are entirely new to Albert, and he has to juggle between his wanting to spend time with Lauri, helping Doris, and doing what's best for his other friends.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/fat_albert.html (458 words)

	Fat Albert (2004): Reviews
		I don't think Fat Albert is up to speed; in its meandering, low-key way, it seems destined more for a future on de-ved, returning to the video world where the characters say they feel more at home.
		Intentional or not, when the young girl explains to her older sister that Fat Albert can't eat, you can't help but think of Joan Allen in the Gary Ross film, which would've allowed Albert to stay in the real world, if the double entendre was acknowledged and performed.
		It was funny and cute in a sense that it was her grandfather and his friends based on the characters for the Fat Albert show.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/fatalbert (1020 words)

	Fat Albert
		Albert and the other boys are oftentimes overwhelmed when in the presence of real girls, but their reactions never drift below the belt.
		Fat Albert and his crew don't overlook our current cultural failures when they bring the best of their simple cartoon world into ours.
		Albert loves the grooves and rhythms of hip-hop, but it's made clear that he and his pals are horrified by the meanspirited and misogynistic lyrics that are topping the charts.
	www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0001998.cfm (1115 words)

	Eye - The thinking man's dick flick - 12.23.04
		Fat Albert's specialty is solving problems, but it was tough to see how he'd overcome the one that's made every live-action screen adaptation of an animated TV series suck rocks.
		Fat Albert succeeds largely because it never gives up the conceit that Albert and his gang are cartoons.
		Fat Albert is both funny and unabashedly positive, and while it's tempting to call its morals old-fashioned, there's a reason they're so durable.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_12.23.04/film/onscreen.html (1544 words)

	Fat Albert (2004)
		Where Fat Albert does shine is in bringing the Cosby kids to real-life, complete with neon-colored '70s wear, Mushmouth's mush mouth and everything else that goes along with their cartoon doppelgangers.
		In one scene, Albert raps with the best of them in a street party that could have come right out of an '80s movie like Beat Street (at least the producers had the good sense to not re-title the movie as Phat Albert).
		There are also a couple of extended scenes and a "Fat Albert: Behind the Band" featurette that's about as pointless as anything else in the movie.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=139585&buy=open&PID=10118310&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (747 words)

	FAT ALBERT - DVD
		The memory I have of watching Bill Cosby's "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" as a wee lad is that it always left me a little bit depressed, like listening to Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle" or dining at the Ponderosa restaurant.
		Once home from school, lonely Doris seeks solace in a "Fat Albert" rerun, and when she cries on the remote control, it creates a gateway of sorts between her world and that of the Junkyard Gang.
		Flip the platter to access: the quasi-documentary "Fat Albert: Behind the Band" (10 mins.), featuring worthless celebrity cameos (Aaron Carter?) and in-character, impromptu wisecracks from the stars (Thompson lazily recycles The Ladykillers' turn-of-phrase "hippity hoppity music"); "Inside Look"s at Ice Age 2: The Meltdown and Rebound; and pre-menu PSAs for anti-piracy and Fox's afro-centric titles.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/fatalbert.htm (840 words)

	Amazon.com: movie info: Fat Albert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		Kenan Thompson's role as Fat Albert is played very well and besides that he portrays Fat Albert in the same light as his cartoon character, likeable, sweet and most of all funny.
		Fat Albert is a good movie, it's funny, Fat Albert is both cute and hilarious and played really well by Kenan Thompson and the supporting actors did a good job in their roles also.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JNDU?v=glance (1046 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Fat Albert
		It takes the characters of Bill Cosby's "Fat Albert" TV cartoon show from the 1970s, and sends them popping magically out of the TV screen and into the life of a teenage girl -- where, hey-hey-hey, they give her advice that has always worked for them in Toonland.
		On the "Fat Albert" TV show, in a Philadelphia junkyard, the characters see this glistening sphere floating in mid-air, take a reckless chance by jumping through it, and find themselves in Doris' living room.
		They try to jump back into the screen, but the "Fat Albert" show is over, and they deduce that the magic portal opens only while they're on the air; that means they have to stick around for 24 hours.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041223/REVIEWS/41202001/1023 (541 words)

	Cinema Confidential Review: Fat Albert (2004)
		To say “Fat Albert” makes no sense at all is an understatement; in fact the movie suffers from one of the worst paradoxes I’ve ever encountered in a film.
		A girl named Doris (Kyla Pratt) is watching “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids” reruns on television when all of a sudden she begins to cry.
		Albert, played by Kenan Thompson (Saturday Night Live), looks utterly ridiculous in what appears to be a sumo-suit trapped under his red shirt and blue pants.
	www.cinecon.com /review.php?id=fatalbert (782 words)

	A Bighearted 'Fat Albert' (washingtonpost.com)
		MAYBE it was because I entered "Fat Albert" with the same enthusiasm I would for the gas chamber that I found myself -- hey, hey, hey -- entertained.
		Fat Albert and company learn to appreciate three-dimensional fun but also start to change.
		Albert and his pals' adapting to the complex rituals of hip-hop, for instance, yields a lot of laughs, as does Fat Albert's amazing land speed when he takes to the running track.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A17384-2004Dec21.html (719 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Fat Albert (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of the best aspects of Fat Albert is the fact that Bill Cosby's not only in on the joke, but he's literally in the movie as well.
		Not that Fat Albert is a great movie by any means, but the idea of this great TV series being made into a feature film had disaster written all over it.
		Fat Albert: Behind the Band is a look at the making of the film, in the form of a parody of VH1's Behind the Music series.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=7125 (1133 words)

	Fat Albert (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Plot Outline: Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids come to life and step out of their animated, inner-city Philadelphia world.
		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).
		Goofs: Continuity: Fat Albert's shirt was clearly fading before the scene where he's hanging outside the window trying to get Lauri's attention.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0396592 (393 words)

	Home Theater Forum - HTF REVIEW: Fat Albert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fat Albert and his junkyard gang feel her tears and feel the need to reach out to the girl by coming through the TV into her living room!
		Fat Albert and his gang are in for a shock of reality too.
		Rather, Fat Albert gathered a lot of attention for himself and the gang from the friends whom Doris was feeling isolated from.
	www.hometheaterforum.com /htforum/showthread.php?s=&postid=2602760&t=7160 (1646 words)

	Fat Albert's originality is lost on the big screen
		When Fat Albert and the gang make the leap from their animated TV series of the 1970s to the big screen, they do so in the most literal way possible.
		The film opens with the animated Fat Albert hearing the sobs of a viewer and popping out through her TV set.
		The flesh and blood Fat Albert (Kenan Thompson, who creates memorable body language with his undulating fat suit) and friends are innocents not just from TV land, but from Bill Cosby's comic remembrances of growing up on the streets of North Philadelphia in the 1950s.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/204855_albert24q.html (485 words)

	Fat Albert (2004) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		Fat Albert and his friends are fully-functioning, bright kids…in their own way.
		Fat Albert himself, while heavyset, is heroic and a role model; Mushmouth may have a speech impediment, but he’s a bright young man.
		But as Fat Albert deals with his new feelings and challenges – and races to complete his mission and return to his world before he fades from existence – one thing is certain: While they do their thing, they’re all gonna have a good time!
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /fat_albert.htm (1110 words)

	Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids: TV Show: TVparty!
		More than 30 years after "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" first became a staple of Saturday morning TV, the program hasn't been forgotten, although apparently Cosby's one-time plan for a chain of Fat Albert hamburger stands has been.
		But in the beginning, Fat Albert first came to the screen not on Saturday mornings, but with a prime-time special.
		Fat Albert's size proved the crux of the special.
	www.tvparty.com /satfat.html (852 words)

	Movie Spoiler for the film - Fat Albert
		Since Fat Albert is a problem solver, he starts looking from where this tear came.
		Fat Albert then jumps into the blur and enters the real world, becoming Kenan (from the Kenan and Kel show).
		After Fat Albert and his gang enter the real world, F.A. asks Doris whether she has a problem.
	www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/fatalbert.html (622 words)

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