Undercover Brother (Full Screen Collector's Edition) Rating: Release Date: 12 August, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $13.48 You SAVE: $1.50! Cast: Eddie Griffin Denise Richards Aunjanue Ellis Robert Taylor Complete Cast (15 total)

Undercover Brother (Full Screen Collector's Edition) Reviews

Eddie Griffin stars in this funny, often hilarious, send-up of the '70s era "Blaxploitation" movies. Here he plays the Robin Hood of the Ghetto recruited by the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.Hood in their battle against, The Man. It appears that, yes, there is one person leading the never-ending battle to keep the Black Man down. His latest plot involves brainwashing a retiring General, played by Billy Dee Williams, and keeping him from running for president. Undercover Brother joins Sistah Girl, Smart Brother, Conspiracy Brother, and the White Boy in this battle against The Man and his minions, The White She-Devil and Mr. Feather.
Griffin is great in this role. He obviously has a reverence for that bygone era of the '70s and his parody is dead on for many of the movies that were hits then. His love of Jim Kelly will be a hoot for fans of Enter the Dragon and other great movies like Black Belt Jones. Jokes fly throughout this movie with many site gags. Some do fall flat but others take hold and leave you shaking with laughter. This is definitely one to listen closely to as many jokes are laced underneath the dialogue of other conversations and are even funnier than the main joke.
You will need to give this movie some time though. Most people aren't going to find the opening jokes as hilarious as others. However about halfway into the movie things really begin to come together and everyone will probably end up laughing.

Good comedies like this don't happen very often...
...Most of the time, the type of comedies we get are teen comedies that pretty much only focus on sexual topics. Not my cup of tea. It's just not funny.

But here, we have a brilliantly funny comedy about a black man mentally stuck in the 70s who's out their protecting racial equality. We also have "The Brotherhood," a secret organization doing the same thing, consisting of mostly blacks. But they stress the message that you just have to be "down" to be in the brotherhood, and you don't have to be black. At first, it seems like only blacks are welcome. But then they realize that working as an equal team is how the job should really be done, regardless of one's race. So this movie has a good message, despite all the racial jokes.

But enough of that. This movie is hilarious! The jokes they make about both black culture and white culture kept me laughing all the way through. You can't take it too seriously. If you do, getting offended will come with the territory for you, and that's not what this movie is about. What goes through my head when the jokes are cracked is, "That's exactly how it is!" And I'm a white guy.

Sure, a lot of the jokes are ones that have been used before. But the WAY they're used in this movie and the creativity behind it all is what made me laugh.

So if you don't get offended easily by culture jokes, and you're in the mood to laugh a lot, this movie is for you.

The DVD has good picture and sound for the movie. It even has 5.1 DTS. This DVD also has a good amount of special features that'll keep you occupied as well, including deleted scenes, outtakes, an alternate ending, a behind the scenes look at the movie, a few original cartoons of Undercover Brother that the movie was based on, etc. - most of which kept me entertained.

Great movie, great DVD!

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