Undercover Brother is either a spoof or an homage to blaxploitation films. It's witty and knows all the right ways to make fun of black people. But its the blacks making fun of themselves, and it works. Dave Chappelle especially (who proved on his Comedy Central show that he knows racial comedy) as well as a plethora of black actors who know what they're doing and deliver. The movie is pretty stupid though, its about a black resistance group kind of like a C.I.A. called the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. who protect and preserve blackness across the world. But there's The Man who tries to use a fried chicken chain to ruin and assimilate the blacks into boring white people who know what was on Ross's bedside table before he kisses Rachel in the season finale of season three. So, the Brotherhood gets the Undercover Brother (Eddie Griffin) to infiltrate The Man's company and stir up some heavy shit. Denise Richards appears as the White She Devil who tries to turn Undercover Brother into one of these boring losers. The whole movie is pretty funny, especially because it knows its stupid and its pretty creative. Undercover Brother was directed by Malcolm D. Lee and it ends up being a decent comedy.
Undercover Brother: ★★★
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