How does one even say it? It’s not like the promo for White Chicks, which is kind of like being pushed off of a building – you immediately know how bad it’s going to get. It’s more like being in an elevator which seems to be descending faster than you expected, but it accellerates slowly enough that you have time to wonder how bad it really is and how bad it’s going to get. I mean, look at this trajectory:
Link to Fat Albert trailer.Oh, boy.
It’s live action. Fuck me.
It’s the cartoon Fat Albert sucked into the real world. Jesus fucking Christ.
He raps. Aaaaaagh! Get it off of me!
He goes to meet Bill Cosby in person. Where were you, God? Where were you?!?
You know what I coulda done with the money they spent on making this movie? I coulda done a lot with the money they spent on making a movie. I coulda made ten good movies.
Hell, I could have spent the money on seventeen thousand gallons of spit and it would’ve been a better investment than this movie.
If God existed, surely he’d smite all of humanity because of this movie, right?
I made a few pithy comments how I liked the trailer, lightweight as it is, and about postmodern humor and the pervasiveness of pop culture meeting reality and a 21st century sensibility. I liked the in-jokes the Fat Albert makes about his own surreality (In a clothing store: “Let’s take off that sweater and see what!” “I can’t… I don’t don’t know what’s under here.”) Dumb Donald’s comment about him having no face under his hat was equally amusing… I just hope all the jokes aren’t like that.
Fat Albert meeting his Maker is not (necessarily) the disaster the OP would have you believe. As someone who first heard Bill Cosby’s Fat Albert stories from comedy albums thirty years ago, this is just Cos and the original Cosby Kid coming full circle.
Isn’t it nice to see a kid’s film trailer blissfully free of scatological humor?
I thought the trailer was okay. While Fat Albert rapping was a definite turn-off, the rest of the trailer gave me the impression of a Brady Bunch-style self-parody, where Fat Albert et al aren’t going to change just because the rest of the world has. The existential humor (“I don’t have a face!”) was good for a chuckle, and Albert-meets-Cos can be fun if it’s done right.
Despite whatever socio-political rants he may be delivering of late, I still have enough confidence in Mr. Cosby’s comic skills to think he might be able to pull this off. At a minimum, it looks better than the two Scooby Doo movies.
I agree with rjung. This may not be as bad as I feared when I first heard of the concept. But I’d still rather just see a movie of Fat Albert based on the old Cosby routines. They’ve just gotta work the Frankenstein bit in somehow.
Okay, I just saw the RealPlayer version in JoeSki’s link and snickered through pretty much the entire thing. Unless all the good parts are in the trailer, this movie won’t be all that bad.
