[Kokojmudd]

Ok the barf alert may just be my opinion but I believe this movie reviewer demonstrates the boring elitist mentality that we have come to expect from the msm. Thankfully this fathead's negative review prompted me to take my teenage daughter to see the film. I was not dissapointed. Bill Cosby should be aplauded for making one of the only decent "teen" movies in years.

[garbanzo]

I haven't seen the movie, but this seems like overanalysis. It wasn't meant to be great cinema - just entertaining.

[Sonny M]

Cosby, apparently taking a break from his plans for "Picture Pages" and Pudding Pops movies

Interesting opinion by the reviewer, I wonder if he's annoyed at Cosby about something.

[weegee]

I would rather have seen a film set in the period (possibly somewhat updated) but something more like an all black "Dead End Kids" (there was a black Bowery Boy/East Side Kid/Dead End Kid) like the tv show was.

"Coming out of the tv" was the first indication that I saw in the trailer that I would not care for the film as I did the show the first time around.

I had no interest at all in the Scooby Doo films (the mystery was ALWAYS a crooked investor trying to buy up some property cheap, except now they are all "real" ghost stories).

Bill Cosby has told a lot of stories about growing up in his neighborhood. They would have made an interesting Fat Albert movie. Somehow it doesn't sound like that is what we got.

[Brainhose]

From what I understand Fat Albert was such a huge flop that it affected the Earth's rotation!

[Brainhose]

From what I understand Fat Albert was such a huge flop that it affected the Earth's rotation!

[cyborg]

Interesting to note that Bill Cosby stressed the importance of clean lyrics for the movie soundtrack.

[AmishDude]

This reviewer is pompous, arrogant and self-righteous.

But I suspect he's right.

[discostu]

While I don't think the reviewers "ideas" would be any good, I have to agree that the "fish out of water" "slackjawed at technology" plot has been done to death and wasn't very good in the first place. Probably the best thing they could have done was pick Cos' favorite 3 episodes, modernize them a little, blend them in together and do that in live action.

[Free and Armed]

Dude, chill out. Ain't supposed to be Phantom of the Opera.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

Fat Albert was, quite simply, the dumbest, most unfunny piece of crap EVER to gain the wandering attention of the little kiddies (hopefully VERY small children).
Why should the movie be any better?

And why should any parent waste their money on this movie when The Incredibles is still in the theater (take them again if you must), and Lemony Snicket is available (even a semi-watered down Snicket)?

Why, oh WHY indeed.


P.S.= Please, Mr. Oscar, don't forget The Passion, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and The Life Aquatic when the Best Picture nominees are announced.