Undercover Brother

An amiable if inconsistent send-up of and tribute to blaxploitation flicks of the early 1970s, essentially an urban AUSTIN POWERS with more kung-fu fighting and attitude. It's also, for what it's worth, the first feature film to be based on an animated Internet series, whose hero is "badder than Shaft, mo-badder than Superfly... fighting for truth, justice and the African-American way." Fans may be disappointed in the way the material has been politically de-fanged in the transition. As the film begins, Anton Jackson (Eddie Griffin), the titular brother, is a freelance do-gooder with a spectacular afro, a vintage 1972 Cadillac, and a sensibility based on old Bruce Le...