> The 70's will best be remembered for polyester, shag carpeting, bad bumper stickers and that wonderful genre known as the blaxploitation flick. With a noticeable absence of roles for people of color, several directors took matters into their own hands and produced such classics as Blacula, Foxy Brown and of course Shaft. While the films often personified cheese, they gave many actors a chance at feature roles, when they would other wise have been bit players.
With his super fro, and Cadillac Seville Anton Jackson, aka Undercover Brother is the epitome of cool. Anton is recruited by B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. and together with Smart Brother, Conspiracy Brother, and Sistah Girl he is determined to help in the battle against The Man. When the first African American likely to win the presidency opts to pursue a 'different' path, they know that something is wrong and are determined to set things right.
I saw the trailer for this film at another premiere and laughed so hard that I was in tears. I therefore assumed that as is typical of most trailers these days, they had shown all the funny scenes. Still, when I was given tickets to the premiere, I couldn't say no. I was so happy that I didn?t.
Undercover Brother is without a doubt the funniest movie that I've seen in a very long time, and it doesn't rely on the gross-out humor that has become so tiresome (and unfunny). From the opening credits with its outlandish seventies style graphics to the ludicrous finale, there is nothing that I wouldn?t recommend.
Eddie Griffin, the best part of the recent film The New Guy (except for Eliza Dushku in her bikini modeling sequence ? I?m a guy, so sue me) is hilarious here as Anton. Griffin has a fabulous array of one liners (?Mess with the fro and you got to go?), a wardrobe that would make a disco queen look conservative and enough seventies chic, that you just have to have more. The sequences with Griffin as a pseudo white guy are uproarious. The supporting cast also does an excellent job.
David Chapelle is pure ludicrous as Conspiracy Brother, reading oppression into everything (you'll want to think twice before saying good morning to someone again) and determined to bring down The Man. Chi McBride is the stereotypical screaming captain/boss featured in such films as Beverly Hills Cop or 48 Hours, but here, the nonsensical rants make no absolutely no sense and are of course that much more amusing. Denise Richardson, as wily femme fatale White Cheetah, is cunning foe both ditzy and deadly. Neil Patrick Harris, is wonderful as Lance the token white guy in B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. ? he is so white that it can be painful to watch (he is even more painful to listen to). And how could I write a review without mentioning Billy Dee, who still manages to ooze cool as a zombie.
Undercover Brother is definitely not a PC film, but so what? Everyone that I went to the premiere with ? a very diverse crowd - complained that their sides hurt from laughing so hard. Solid!
With his super fro, and Cadillac Seville Anton Jackson, aka Undercover Brother is the epitome of cool. Anton is recruited by B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. and together with Smart Brother, Conspiracy Brother, and Sistah Girl he is determined to help in the battle against The Man. When the first African American likely to win the presidency opts to pursue a 'different' path, they know that something is wrong and are determined to set things right.
I saw the trailer for this film at another premiere and laughed so hard that I was in tears. I therefore assumed that as is typical of most trailers these days, they had shown all the funny scenes. Still, when I was given tickets to the premiere, I couldn't say no. I was so happy that I didn?t.
Undercover Brother is without a doubt the funniest movie that I've seen in a very long time, and it doesn't rely on the gross-out humor that has become so tiresome (and unfunny). From the opening credits with its outlandish seventies style graphics to the ludicrous finale, there is nothing that I wouldn?t recommend.
Eddie Griffin, the best part of the recent film The New Guy (except for Eliza Dushku in her bikini modeling sequence ? I?m a guy, so sue me) is hilarious here as Anton. Griffin has a fabulous array of one liners (?Mess with the fro and you got to go?), a wardrobe that would make a disco queen look conservative and enough seventies chic, that you just have to have more. The sequences with Griffin as a pseudo white guy are uproarious. The supporting cast also does an excellent job.
David Chapelle is pure ludicrous as Conspiracy Brother, reading oppression into everything (you'll want to think twice before saying good morning to someone again) and determined to bring down The Man. Chi McBride is the stereotypical screaming captain/boss featured in such films as Beverly Hills Cop or 48 Hours, but here, the nonsensical rants make no absolutely no sense and are of course that much more amusing. Denise Richardson, as wily femme fatale White Cheetah, is cunning foe both ditzy and deadly. Neil Patrick Harris, is wonderful as Lance the token white guy in B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. ? he is so white that it can be painful to watch (he is even more painful to listen to). And how could I write a review without mentioning Billy Dee, who still manages to ooze cool as a zombie.
Undercover Brother is definitely not a PC film, but so what? Everyone that I went to the premiere with ? a very diverse crowd - complained that their sides hurt from laughing so hard. Solid!