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Fat Albert is a 2004 live-action movie based on the Filmation animated television series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. The movie was produced by Davis Entertainment for 20th Century Fox, and stars Kenan Thompson as the title character.

The plot surrounds Fat Albert and the gang leaving the cartoon world and entering the real world in order to help a teenage adolescent deal with the challenges of being unpopular. Her unpopularity stemmed from her tendency to withdraw into a world of her own as a consequence of the death of her grandfather, whom she was very close to. It is up to Fat Albert and the gang to show her that she is special and can make friends.

Unlike so many movies that melt the cartoon world with the real world while at the same time keeping the cartoon characters two dimensional, e.g Who Framed Roger Rabbit
, Fat Albert takes a twist and transforms the cartoon characters into three dimensional humans, who have to come to grips with the differences that exist between their world and the real world.

Critics were not impressed with the film, whose characters may not have been familiar to a generation raised on other recent franchises. But the film did modest business at the box office, making $48 million.

Cast

Kenan Thompson
- Fat Albert
Kyla Pratt
- Doris
Shedrack Anderson "III" - Rudy
Jermaine Williams - Mushmouth
Keith Robinson - Bill
Alphonso McAuley - Bucky
Aaron Frazier - Old Weird Harold
Marques Houston
- Dumb Donald
Jeremy Suarez - Russell (voice)
Dania Ramirez
- Lauri
Omari Grandberry - Reggie
J. Mack Slaughter, Jr. - Arthur
Rick Overton
- Coach Gillespie
Keri Lynn Pratt - Heather
Alice Greczyn - Becky
Aaron Carter
- Teen
Bill Cosby
- Himself

Trivia

Despite what the movie showed, the original series, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids has never aired on TV Land. Also, the episode shown in the movie was produced specifically for the movie, was computer animated, and was quite different from the original series episodes.

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