Undercover Brother (2002)

Totally enjoyed this film. Put together at a time of promoting racial harmony, has gags and jokes performed by African American actors..who can do it..to perfection. If you are offended by this film, you need to get a life. It is awesome. Only problem with this film was that there wasn't a sequel. Eddy was hilarious, Dave chapel was fantastic, Aunjanue Ellis and Denise Richards were drop dead stunning, as well as funny. Chi McBride totally nailed the 1970s police chief character. Gary Anthony Williams was awesome as 'Smart Brother. Chris Kattan, and Neil Patrick Harris were very good as well, but the "Brother Hood" members just ruled,they were great. Well done, Malcom D Lee.

This movie uses the great imagery of the seventies black style along with amazing material to keep you laughing until you cry. The lines are peppered with in your face truths, great music, big Afros and a heavy dose of Chappelle magic. Our family purchased the DVD several seasons ago and we watch it at least 4 or 5 times a year. What's with the 5.7 stars? First of all, it should be a 10. What were they thinking? Our hope is that Dave is inspired by some white folks near Savannah Ga who think he is the greatest and comes back with Undercover Brother II! For now, we will keep watching the reruns and Undercover Brother DVD's until the next work arrives. We are dedicated.You have buy the film and see for yourself!

The black version of Austin Powers after 5 years of the original. Or it's the Bond spoof meets the Blexploitation spoof. Anyhow it's one of the funniest comedies through one of the shortest 90 minutes movies. But it got some problems that made it away from being the smart parody it could've been._The casting : (Eddie Griffin) is good comedian but way far to be a lead. He lacked the charisma and the personal touch. (Chris Kattan) transformed the whole matter into a big silly gag, sometimes being hysterical doesn't mean laughable. (Denise Richards) don't get me starting, as an actress she's the weakest, and as a sexy mama she's not (they even had to enlarge her assets to look good at the poster !!). (Chi McBride) wasn't that good as a comedian. And finally (Aunjanue Ellis) was droll as (Sistah Girl) but not great as a (girl)! _The direction : (Malcolm D. Lee) handled it lame for most of the time. He let the jokes scenes, like all of Dave Chappelle's ones, be like a stand-up comic number or a devoted TV work. His cadres were so tide, his camera didn't move where it should be. I felt like this is just a TV sketch more than a respectable cinematic parody. Not to mention how I'm still dying to watch a parody, any parody, for the technicalities, the goofs, and the lowness of some of the Blexploitation movies, to not find it here or anywhere ! They're things begging to be spoofed._The production : it's weird, because at the end you'd witness some money here, like they were saving what they have during all the movie to spend it away at the climax only ?? Despite anything, its writer (John Ridley) made a fine comedy with some effective sarcasm aiming at the modern pop, and representing some nice "black" jokes about the so-called "white" culture. I found it too amusing to watch ideas like : a brainwash by the Mayonnaise, letting the politics to the Kentucky Fried chicken, the rap music beats the racism,.. etc. It's even an ethical movie (drugs can make you paranoiac)!. All of that in fast speed, sharp editing (sometimes), and with so brilliant dialog. Without the usual common nowadays' trash of (toilet humor, bad taste, dirty rude comedy,..).In fact it managed to be good as a spoof, but not as a very good spoof.

I watched this movie as a kid, 9 years old. I'm a white, dutch guy so I back then, I had no idea what I was watching. I laughed a lot at the standard comedy jokes and it became a piece of nostalgia to me.For a very long time I didn't know what the movie was called. But my solid memory left me with the main character's name "Undercover Brother", which made tracking the movie at the age of 17 an easy task.I watched it again and yeah, it's pretty funny. It's Austin Powers like; witty comedy, sometimes just random but always well presented. It doesn't really anything new to the concept of comedy and there's nothing to say about the plot, because it's a satire of the cliché plot (as is Austin Powers), so I won't talk about that. Saves me the trouble of talking around spoilers.What I thought was just amazing is the cast and the feeling behind this movie. No, not any of the obvious characters, I'm talking James Brown, but mainly, Snoop Dogg at the end. That's right, Snoop Dogg rapped the end theme of the song.To me, this really goes to show how much connectivity black people have. There may much diversity among them, but for some reason, they all share something us whiteys just don't understand, and probably intimidates the hell out of some of us.What can I say. They got soul and so does this comedy.