 It may be a comedy sketch extended to an hour and a half, according to many critics, but they appear to agree that there are a lot of laughs in Undercover Brother, starring Eddie Griffin. Jan Stuart, writing in Newsday and the Los Angeles Times, calls it "a funkadelic fun ride that shrewdly reinvigorates the eye-popping styles and pulpy veneer of '70s blaxploitation flicks." For several critics, a particularly favorite line in the film is this one: "This is a great day for black people of all races." Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post comments that the line "gets to the heart of a movie that exaggerates racial boundaries and stereotypes as joyfully as it anticipates their erasure." Not all critics are impressed. Renee Graham in the Boston Globe says that the film "tries to wring laughs from just about every dusty stereotype about blacks and whites imaginable. But it's all cheap, lazy, and unoriginal." |
