God, watching BDW in Undercover Brother is eerily similar to watching him in Tim Burton’s Batman. Or to get him some coffee so Billy Dee can wake up and make a choice as an actor.
Essentially, BDW plays a Black general who The Man kidnaps and brainwashes, and it’s up to the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. Dee Williams is sleepwalking through this whole movie. Maybe a lot of his good stuff ends up on the cutting room floor, but damn y’all, Mr. I have YET to be impressed by a Billy Dee Williams performance and Undercover Brother hasn’t changed my mind. To be cool you have to use slang from the seventies? Since when? “Dissed.” “Soul.” “Right on.” It’s dated to the point of being confusing at times. BAD! Because Undercover Brother harkens back to 1970’s blaxploitation films, there’s a lot of throwback lingo that does not work.
Chappelle is on fire in this movie! Watching Undercover Brother reminds us exactly how he was able to write, star, and produce his own sketch comedy show.
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But the actor who does a real star-making turn in this movie is Dave Chappelle. Neil Patrick Harris was in his post-Doogie Howser phase when he was just Neil Patrick Harris-ing all over the place. The actors are out of this world! In 2001, most of these actors were not exactly in high demand. Which for this writer is the perfect proportion. Undercover Brother also has a good action-to-comedy ratio, something like 40% action and 60% comedy. Keeping everything fast and loose makes every scene feel necessary. One minute Undercover Brother and Sistah Girl are falling down a secret passageway to the underground lair of the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D, and the next minute Undercover Brother is using his elongating platform shoes to grow really tall and hop an even taller fence. With everything moving at such a quick pace, we viewers can’t really stop and think about how crazy everything is.
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