All That and Then Some

Chuck Crisafulli is a frequent contributor to Calendar Not a single head turns when Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell stroll into a Hollywood burger joint; the crowd here skews just a little too old to recognize the young actors. The duo began making an impression three years ago as cast members of “All That.” The sketch comedy program was conceived as a kind of giddy, preteen version of “Saturday Night Live.” Thompson and Mitchell became the “All That” troupe’s breakout stars, scoring some of the show’s biggest laughs with wild characters such as the crotchety old men Mavis and Clavis, the spectacularly inept Repair Man Man Man Man Man, and a mess-making, chocoholic cooking show host. One of “All That’s” most popular sketches has featured Mitchell as Ed, a dreadlocked, almost surrealistically dimwitted surfer dude desperately attempting to man the counter of a fast-food nightmare called Good Burger. “Coming to theaters everywhere.” ‘Good Burger” is the second feature film to come from a partnership of Paramount and Nickelodeon, following last summer’s “Harriet the Spy.” In addition to Mitchell as Ed and Thompson as Dexter, a beleaguered student who takes a summer job at the burger stand, the cast includes Sinbad, Shaquille O’Neal, Abe Vigoda and Carmen Electra. But the advantage was that we all knew the movie we wanted to make, so when they said, ‘Go,’ we were ready.” Robbins says that it was on the Los Angeles set of “Good Burger” that Thompson and Mitchell passed the first great test of finding fans beyond Nickelodeon-watchers.