Touches You

Great Film overall

Admirable film.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Undercover Brother is a hilarious film that plays with racial stereotypes and tropes and carves out a nice funny story out of it. The plot concerns an underground agency known as the brotherhood that stand against an unidentified entity only referred to as "the man". The brotherhood is African American whereas the man is Caucasian whose sole goal is to undermine ethnic cultures and the Brotherhood stand in the way. When a high flying African American general, plotting to stand as President is brainwashed the Brotherhood hire our lead- Undercover Brother to delve deeply into the matter. The film succeeds because the cast is great and clearly having a good time. Eddie Griffin and Chris Kattan(as the man's subordinate) carry the film and they are superbly assisted by the likes of Dave Chappelle, Denise Richards, Neil Patrick Harris and others. Watch out for James Brown's cameo too. Undercover Brother is sadly reminiscent of a more casual time before the anxious days now of racial and ethnic differences being thrown all around the world.

B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. is a secret organization battling The Man. While trying to steal bank records, they are interrupted by Robin Hood wannabe Undercover Brother (Eddie Griffin) who is erasing mortgage records. Gen. Warren Boutwell (Billy Dee Williams) is expected to run for President as the favorite to win. However, the Man and boot-licking Mr. Feather (Chris Kattan) use mind control to make him open a fried chicken chain instead. They intend to use him in Operation White Wash. Sistah Girl (Aunjanue Ellis) recruits Undercover Brother into the organization where he meets Conspiracy Brother (Dave Chappelle), The Chief (Chi McBride), Smart Brother (Gary Anthony Williams) and affirmative action intern Lance (Neil Patrick Harris). The Man sends White She Devil (Denise Richards) in to take care of Undercover Brother.It's a non-stop biting satire of 70s blaxploitation films taking on modern racial relationship. It is hilarious. The characters are fun. Comedy is subjective and racial comedy is especially subjective. All I can say is that I found it funny even after a few viewing which is rare. It is just fun.

I'm quoting a reviewer here on IMDb that said "is this film really anti-white propaganda or some silly parody?"Wow! I'm shocked that's even a question in anyone's mind. If anyone thinks this film is "anti-white propaganda" or "anti white" in any way knows absolutely NOTHING about black people. I could see coming away with that perception from a movie like Django, which is more of an example of black fantasy rage that 99% of black people would never act out in real life. But Undercover Brother is nothing but fun! The movie is based on an online comic strip meant for cubicle workers to goof off online at work. Similar to Lazy Larry. The online comic was not very funny but if you're at work and bored, it was cute little chuckle and good diversion. Now imagine someone took Lazy Larry and fleshed out a script this funny and you'd realize how brilliant this adaptation is of the online comic.If anything, the movie pokes fun at Black people while white people (and our difficult history with them) is barely a backdrop. Example: when Undercover Brother realizes that all the conspiracies that have circulated among the black community for decades are "true" but then he says "and OJ DIDN'T do it!" And the other agents all turn their heads and look uncomfortable because that's one rumor they can't confirm. That is a joke poking at all the conspiracies wcirculating in our community (some of which I personally believe too, but it doesn't change that is funny and is poking fun at black people. This movie is HILARIOUS! So to answer my fellow member's question - this is mainly a parody of 1970's blaxploitation movies as we see Undercover Brother watching a movie and obviously hero worshiping Jim Kelly, a black action star of the era.

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."