Undercover Brother (Full Screen Collector's Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Undercover Brother (Full Screen Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: Only Fitfully Funny
Summary: 3 Stars
A thin premise is stretched to its limits in this black riff on Austin Powers and the Naked Gun movies. Dave Chapelle's Conspiracy Brother is the only consistently funny character, and the storyline often sputters. The big showdown between UB and Feather Man, set to Michael Jackson's "Beat It," is the highlight of the movie, but it comes too late to lift the overall rating out of the doldrums. If Amazon allowed half stars I'd give this 2.5Movie Review: Good comedies like this don't happen very often...
Summary: 5 Stars
...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!
Movie Review: Are you kiding.???
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow. This was a brilliant movie. When I first saw it all i could think about was how great it was. Eddie Griffen is funny. Chris Kattan is hilarious. This movie is the king of comedies.Movie Review: Flashback Fun!
Summary: 4 Stars
Hillarious fun from beginning to end! If you like Raising Arizona, L.A.Story, o Brother Where Art Thou, you will probably get a kick out of Undercover Brother too. Not intellectual, but lots of fun.Movie Review: This movie was Funky & Funny!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've read a lot of reviews that indicated this film was full of racial stereotyping and that is insulting for this reason and that. That's the point. The film makes fun of the various stereotypes, both black and white, that exist now and and in the past. The film starts out with Undercover Brother, a modern day blaxploitation hero, as he teams up with the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., a secret agency seeking to promote black equality, to defeat the Man. The Man being the figure for the supposed white establishment that governs U.S. society. The Man is using a mind-controlled Black retired 4 Star General to distribute a mind controlling drug to the Black community via his chain of General's Fried Chicken (GFC) restaurants. All the U.S. loves the former potential presidential candidate General, he is so well spoken. Remind you of any other well spoken Black general who was a potential president candidate in 2000?
As the film progresses the Undercover Brother and the The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. track down the Man and after a series of hilarious confrontations with the Man's troops and agents. The final confrontation takes place at the Man's secret Island. The end of the film is good and promotes racial harmony as members of both races realize the benefit of working together.
I love Conspiracy Brother played by Dave Chappelle. Chappelle hasn't been so funny since his role as Reggie in THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (96). The music is great (I also bought the soundtrack) and anyone who grew up in the 70's will be taken back to their youth. You know the time when music was original and hadn't been sampled and rapped over multiple times and then passed off as new and original. The one remake is Snoop Dogg's "Undercova Funk" but it's hardly a remake as his Uncle, the original performer, Bootsy Collins remakes it with him.
The DVD is well constructed. Plenty of extra features and a commentary. I enjoyed the cartoon shorts that the film was based on. I hope they make an Undercover Brother 2 but don't see how it could be funnier than the original. Until then I think I'll sit down with my Nappy Meal and rewatch UNDERCOVER BROTHER again.