Undercover Brother (DVD)

The Cast Director : Malcolm D Lee (cousin of Spike) Eddie Griffin : Under Cover Brother Chris Kattan : Mr feather Aunjanue Ellis : Sistah girl Chi McBride : The Chief Denise Richards : White She Devil Dave Chappelle : Conspiracy Brother Gary Anthony Williams : Smart Brother Neil Patrick Harris : Lance the token white intern The plot The movie is based around the understanding that the decline in black culture during the 70s and 80s blamed on among others Mr T and Dennis Rodman is done to The Man the ...  Read the complete review

Undercover Brother arrives in UK cinemas today hoping to lay down some soul on cinema goers. Let's get one thing straight, this is one silly movie but at times it's one funny movie. The film takes it's idea from what started as an internet series, it also borrows heavily from blaxplotation flicks as well as other spy spoofs. This is Austin Powers for black people and I mean that in a non-racist way. You know how in some films that there will always be the black man who's constantly going on about how the white man is always on top? Well this film turns that to it's advantage. During the sixties, black culture came to the fore but ...  Read the complete review

The basic premise behind Undercover Brother isn't new, but surprisingly fresh and under-used when you consider the wealth of source material there is for a movie like this to parody. It's a spoof of the blaxploitation movies which riddled the 70s and early 80s which so far as I'm aware has only been done before to any real extent in the equally entertaining "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!" although it's not quite as intelligent as this one in the manipulation of its's source material. Of course, it would be fair to argue that many of the movies in the blaxploitation genre became self-parodying towards the end anyway so a spoof of them is ...  Read the complete review