Think about those adorable fat cartoon characters — you know, the ones. They’re lovable, have a larger-than-life personality that brings back fond childhood memories, and generate big belly laughs.

Now here is a movie for which the words "good-hearted" come straight to mind. It takes the characters of Bill Cosby's "Fat Albert" TV cartoon show from the 1970s, and sends them popping magically out ...

Plump cartoon characters such as Peppa Pig and Homer Simpson might be fuelling the child obesity "crisis" by prompting youngsters to eat too much, a study suggests. Children eat more low-nutrition, ...