{"id":8648,"date":"2005-02-18T22:12:57","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T20:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/18\/undercover-brother\/"},"modified":"2005-04-17T05:34:09","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T02:34:09","slug":"undercover-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/18\/undercover-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Undercover Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20050218-undercover_brother.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>Watching a lot of movies (as I do) can really pay off when identying them in the parodies.  Today I had a lot of fun picking and guessing bits and pieces in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0279493\/\">Undercover Brother<\/a>&#8221; which references, spoofs, and features well over 60 films.<\/p>\n<p>IMDB rating: 6.0<br \/>\nMy rating: 6.0<br \/>\nCelebrity highlights: plenty of familiar faces that don&#8217;t bring back any memories of names.  Except, of course, for the brief appearence of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0113768\/\">James Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0279493\/\">Undercover Brother<\/a>&#8221; is yet another flick that tries to mention each and every other movie on the planet Earth.  Spy movies, kung fu movies (-KNOCK KNOCK.  -Who&#8217;s there?  -Kung  -Kung who?  ***SLAM*** The door brakes.  -Kung fu!), love movies, war movies, action movies &#8211; anything works here.<\/p>\n<p>I wish there were more jokes (as always). Those which were there were mostly funny.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, not something that you would miss if you haven&#8217;t seen it, but something that you don&#8217;t regret the time of spending on it.  Get on DVD from the rentals to save yourself few bucks from the movie ticket.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Watching a lot of movies (as I do) can really pay off when identying them in the parodies. Today I had a lot of fun picking and guessing bits and pieces in &#8220;Undercover Brother&#8221; which references, spoofs, and features well over 60 films. IMDB rating: 6.0 My rating: 6.0 Celebrity highlights: plenty of familiar faces &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/18\/undercover-brother\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Undercover Brother<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9234,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/14\/kung-fu-hustle\/","url_meta":{"origin":8648,"position":0},"title":"Kung Fu Hustle","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 14, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Kung Fu Hustle\" is one of the best martial arts movies I've ever seen. 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