Undercover Brother
Undercover Brother
PG-13 | 31 May 2002 (USA)
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An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white organization "The Man" defending the values of the black people in North America. When the Afro-American candidate Gen. Warren Boutwell behaves strangely in his presidential campaign, Undercover Brother is hired to work undercover for "The Man" and find what happened with the potential candidate.

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GamerTab

That was an excellent one.

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VeteranLight

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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Kaydan Christian

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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Frances Chung

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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tbills2

Sistah Girl is sexy low-key and sweet! Aunjanue Eliis is perfect as Sistah Girl. I'm not familiar with Aunjanue outside of this movie. I just don't remember her from Men of Honor which I seen many years ago. I kind of remember her from Ray which I seen many years ago. She's nice. She's really good in this comedy. She's funny, beautiful. She was also in The Help. I definitely want to see her in more movies now that I know who she is. Sistah Girl is where it's at!Conspiracy Brother is funny loud and paranoid. Dave Chappelle is perfect as Conspiracy Brother. Dave Chappelle is as funny as anybody. His comedies are some of my favorites like Blue Streak, Half Baked, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and this. Dave specializes in stoner comedies. Conspiracy Brother is the funniest character outside of Undercover Brother by far. "So I said look, you better open the bank and give me my money. It's my money. I don't care who's bank it is. I know who's money's in it. You know I'm keeping it real. That's all I'm saying."White She Devil is sexual naughty and good, no bad, no good, yes definitely good. Denise Richards is perfect as White She Devil. Anyone out there who loves Denise Richards but doesn't know about Wild Things, where have you been all my life? I also love her in The World Is Not Enough and Starship Troopers. The catfight with White She Devil and Sistah Girl which somehow leads to both of them posing together in the shower is hilarious and super awesome. Mostly super awesome, but also hilarious.Mr. Feather is evil obnoxious and squeamish. Chris Kattan is perfect as Mr. Feather. Kattan's gifted at physical comedy. He's good in everything I see him in. I love Night at the Roxbury.The Chief is strong stoic and wise. Chi McBride is perfect as The Chief. Danny Glover would have been nice. Chi is a presence he can act. I like him in Gone in 60 Seconds.Smart Brother is smart nerdy and helpful. Gary Anthony Williams is perfect as Smart Brother. I love him from Malcom in the Middle.Lance is impassioned white and definitely not a sissy. Neil Patrick Harris is perfect as Lance. Neil is really funny. How I Met Your Mother and in the Harold and Kumars. I like him. He's in Gone Girl but he's really not all that funny in that.Gen. Warren Boutwell is greasy greedy and disheartening. Billy Dee Williams is perfect as Gen. Warren Boutwell. I love Billy Willy. I can't think of anything I've seen him in. Nothing comes to mind. Just The Empire Strikes Back! The best movie of all-time!Undercover Brother is funky heroic and solid. Eddie Griffin is perfect as Undercover Brother. Eddie's got a couple good comedies under his belt with Deuce Bigalow and this. Eddie is all-time legendary for Undercover Brother though. Undercover Brother is the best and Undercover Brother is hilarious and Undercover Brother is classic. "Brother, brother, we all love your solo enthusiasm but this is about working together. Now I've been a solo star shooting at shots that I thought would win the game, but in working with y'all i've come to realize that only a team wins a championship.""People all over the world. Join hands. Start a love train, love train."

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Bashair Tarabzouni

i watched it just because it was on TV & i had nothing to do assuming that i wouldn't enjoy it, and surprisingly i LOVED IT! It is Hilarious! Wouldn't suggest it for easily offended people but if u enjoy offensive humor and u know it is just humor then u will enjoy it! It is silly, funny, the editing is bad which makes it even funnier, the cast are good and energetic.

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oneguyrambling

In the same "dumb but harmless" vein of the SNL films (Roxbury, Ladies Man etc) comes a film based upon an online cartoon… and if that fact alone don't get the blood pumping nothing will.Like The Ladies Man if the first two minutes of Undercover Brother don't elicit a grin then it's a pretty grim 80 minutes ahead, as it's largely the same from there.Undercover Brother himself (Eddie Griffin) is a 70s throwback, kung-fu film watching, funk listening, jive talking chicken eating, black chick bonin', caddie driving orange soda luving Brother who doesn't seem to grasp the basics of a new millennium. A disco throwback with an insatiable thirst for justice and fairness to all things pro-black. He is also funny as sh*t. If you get this far in the film and don't like him press eject cause it only gets worse.Apparently Black culture is in grave danger of being homogenised by "The (white) Man". This is apparently a tragedy as it will cost an entire culture its identity and basically its coolness. I wonder if they will still be allowed to do porn or play in the NBA?Enter the BROTHERHOOD, which stands for something I can't remember but is probably vaguely clever and totally unnecessary. A group of predominantly (see further down) black staff who seek to thwart The Man's efforts and preserve the black experience for generations to come. The BROTHERHOOD are staffed by total stereotypes, but at least they acknowledge as much in the naming of most characters…* The Chief* Smart Brother.* Conspiracy Brother* Sistah-Girl…And Lance, the token affirmative action white guy played by Neil Patrick Harris. (Who would have thought that 2 of the better comedies with a predominantly non-white cast would have featured Doogie himself?) For some reason this cracks me up even though it also panders to every sarcastic stereotype of white guys going around. (Can't dance, not cool, tone deaf etc.)Our plot revolves around The Man trying to spread a "white-washing" drug through the black community using fried chicken laced with a mind altering drug, and fronted by a formerly admired black General with aspirations to politics who has apparently "sold out", but is really himself under the influence of the drug and powerless to resist.The BROTHERHOOD conscript Undercover Brother to help stop The Man's plan, but first he must go through white-thinking training. Needless to say the montage shown before him has some of the more embarrassing atrocities ever committed by the white race. He must also learn to cope with mayonnaise, which we apparently all love for some reason.Sent into the heart of The Man's operations, UB must blend in by removing any trace of cool or blackness. The Man counters by unleashing White She-Devil (Denise Richards) as UB's ultimate temptation and foe.Once under her spell UB becomes temporarily lost to the BROTHERHOOD, and it is up to Sistah-Girl to go and save him. A catfight between She-Devil and Sistah-Girl in front of Undercover Brother and a couple of white henchmen remains a hilarious highlight as it gets more and more ludicrous, culminating in the both half dressed and slurping it up in the shower.I laughed a lot in this film. I a lot of comedy recently and this was by far the funniest and offered the most frequent laughs.There are jokes about having a black President - which show that they couldn't see into the future - a great slo-mo car chase featuring golf buggies and enough good natured "Oh well black people do this and white people do that" jokes that made me wish you could get away with more political incorrectness when it comes to race these days. (But you can't.) On top of this Conspiracy Brother is played by Dave Chappelle before he became mega-famous for Chappelle's Show and he provides many bonus laughs.The finale moves from a James Brown concert and ends at The Man's island lair, where UB and The Man's 2IC Mr Feather have the final showdown and Lance finally unleashes his fury. (Mr Feather (Chris Kattan) is a 50/50 proposition, half funny and half cringeworthy, mostly due to his attempts to speak "black" for comedy's sake.)Of course being a movie with a 70s throwback as the main attraction the music is funk-tastic and includes some of the better known hits from that decade, as well as nifty background tunes.The whole thing seemed to set up a sequel that never came, which is a shame, because aside from a few clumsy missteps Undercover Brother is without doubt the most chuckle-worthy of the comedies I have seen thus far.Final Rating – 8 / 10. The only drawback of Undercover Brother is the absence of one "huge laugh". There are dozens of funny bits and chuckles galore but no eye-watering, cheek hurter.That aside this is still very good stuff and underrated. Maybe the White Man is keeping a Brother down after all!

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MetalGeek

I first saw "Undercover Brother" on cable a few years ago and since then it's become one of my favorite comedies of recent years. Though it's basically a "blaxploited" version of the "Austin Powers" concept, "Undercover Brother" is funny enough to be enjoyable on its own merits.As the film opens, we are filled in on the ongoing battle between the black community and a super secret organization known as "The Man," who works tirelessly to negate African-American influence on the world at large. Fortunately, the black community has its own underground group, known as "The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D." created to undermine The Man's plans to "Whitewash" the world.Eddie Griffin stars as Undercover Brother, a funky '70s throwback hero with a huge Afro and platform shoes, who drives around in a pimped-out Caddy performing acts of Kung-Fu derring-do to aid the African American cause. Normally a lone wolf, he is drafted into the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. when a black war hero (Billy Dee Williams)'s plans to run for President are derailed by a mind control drug designed by The Man. Now rather than run for the White House, he runs a nationwide Fried Chicken chain instead. Ably assisted by fellow B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. agents Sistah Girl, Conspiracy Brother, Smart Brother, and "Lance" (Neil Patrick Harris in a hilarious turn as the lone white member of the group -- he got his internship through -- what else? -- affirmative action), Undercover Brother infiltrates The Man's organization to destroy the plot, though he nearly becomes a victim of their most potent weapon, the gorgeous Denise Richards, aka "White She-Devil" (whom "The Man" calls "Black Man's Kryptonite.") along the way.I have seen a lot of discussion on IMDb about this film being "racist" towards whites, but to be honest, I found "Undercover Brother" to be an equal opportunity offender, with no stereotype about blacks OR whites going un-skewered. The cast is excellent, especially Dave Chapelle as the eternally paranoid agent "Conspiracy Brother," and the always welcome Chi McBride as the long-suffering "Chief" of The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. Denise Richards looks amazing in a white leather catsuit (her catfight scene with "Sistah Girl" is worth the price of the DVD all by itself), and oddly enough, even though I usually find Eddie Griffin and Chris Kattan (who plays The Man's flunky, "Mr. Feather") quite irritating in other films, their shtick totally works in "Undercover Brother." Fast, funny, and an utterly silly good time, "Undercover Brother" is -- in the words of its hero -- "Solid."

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