Good Enough Movies: UNDERCOVER BROTHER (2002) (Patreon)

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2017-07-05 07:20:23

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Pitched as little more than a Black AUSTIN POWERS in its initial marketing and based on an early webseries that few had heard of, UNDERCOVER BROTHER has since earned a reputation as an early-00s cult-classic with a surprisingly blunt take on race-relations humor for the era and an ahead-of-its-time theme of rehabilitating the so-called "blaxploitation" genre. 15 years later, is it worth revisiting - or checking out for the first time?

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Good Enough Movies: UNDERCOVER BROTHER (2002)

http://www.patreon.com/moviebob1 A celebration of the reliable 3-star movies we love, GOOD ENOUGH MOVIES looks back on the not-quite-classics you can still quote by heart and will always stop to watch whenever they're on. Maybe it's a nostalgic fave you haven't seen in years, maybe it's a movie you would've loved but never heard about - until now. They're far from perfect, they're hardly ubiquitous, but they're still G.E.M.s THIS INSTALLMENT: Pitched as little more than a Black AUSTIN POWERS in its initial marketing and based on an early webseries that few had heard of, UNDERCOVER BROTHER has since earned a reputation as an early-00s cult-classic with a surprisingly blunt take on race-relations humor for the era and an ahead-of-its-time theme of rehabilitating the so-called "blaxploitation" genre. 15 years later, is it worth revisiting - or checking out for the first time? MUSIC: Your Call Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/