![]() ![]() And what would Undercover Brother do if he topple The Man? The forces of good are always defending against The Man, yet they can never defeat him. Feather but he could never topple The Man. Feather took the fall in the first Undercover Brother movie. By making The Man a person, they evened the roles of antagonist and protagonist. They made The Man a person, not a thing to fight. Undercover Brother 2 not only gave The Man a face, they misused the character completely. That effect enforced the idea that The Man was an omnipotent, all-powerful entity. Viewers saw his hands, but there was always a shade on his face. Personification of The Man: In the original Undercover Brother, the director made sure never to show who The Man was. There are probably many African-American comics who could have fit the role better. While Michael Jai White did have a few martial arts scenes, which is a great use of his abilities, there was not enough to make casting him worth the confusion. Robert Downey Jr will always be Iron Man and Michael Jai White will always be Black Dynamite. Why was he cast as Undercover Brother? This is like casting Robert Downey Jr as Superman. He is also well-known as Black Dynamite, another socio-political classic about fighting The Man. (I wonder if Undercover Brother 2 could have done another Conspiracy Brother being that conspiracy theories are now all 4Chan/QAnon/Illuminati conservatives who believe the all-powerful Deep State is trying to drive America into a One World Government.)Ĭasting: Michael Jai White is awesome in action movies. If written better, these new agents had a chance to equal the original. The jokes for Sarcastic Brother were not written half as well. Conspiracy Brother fueled the concept of The Man as intangible bugaboo that controls everything. In the movie, however, nothing can equal Dave Chappelle's litanies against The Man. New supporting agents: Sarcastic Brother and Harvard Brother were decent replacements for Conspiracy Brother and Smart Brother - on paper. (Spoiler Alerts Ahead, if you care not to have this rotten movie spoiled.) After you read this review, my suggestion is to forget Undercover Brother 2 existed.īut because I bought Undercover Brother 2 on DVD, I am going to cover what I liked, what I didn't like, and where those responsible for this travesty dropped the ball. It is not as bad as Joe Dirt 2, How High 2, or the Shaq-Fu video game, but it is close. The best way for me to sum up Undercover Brother 2 is to say that it's existence is a plan by The Man to diminish the legacy of the first movie. Written by comedian Ian Edwards and Stephen Mazur and directed by Leslie Small, the movie went straight to DVD/Netflix without passing go and without collecting $41 million in the theater. Feather and The Man, Hollywood green-lighted Undercover Brother 2. 16 years after Undercover Brother dueled Mr. It could not be any funkier.įast-forward to 2019. It had songs by Snoop Dogg and Bootsy Collins and a cameo by James Brown. ![]() It had a fight-the-power message you could laugh with. It was a Parliament-Funkadelic album on the big screen. It was witty, quotable, and light, but still carried a strong socio-political theme. Directed by Spike Lee's cousin, Malcolm Lee, Griffin's movie captured the spirit of comedic rebellion. In 2002, comedian Eddie Griffin starred in Hollywood's version of the popular web series. According to reports, it was the first Internet-based project to get picked up by a major film studio. Ridley's Urban Entertainment sold the rights for the Undercover Brother series to Universal in 2000. Among the many creative videos the early internet spawned was the pre-YouTube series Undercover Brother, written by John Ridley - the same John Ridley who wrote "12 Years a Slave", The Wanda Sykes Show, and Barbershop. Before 90% of internet traffic went to only four sites, before the dark times, before the empires of Facebook and Google, the early internet was a funky place, full of ideas and creativity. ![]()
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