The Blues Brothers (Collector's Edition)

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Summary: "The band, Elwood! The band!!"
Review: So says John Belushi's character, Joliet Jake Blues to brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) after he "sees the light". The Godafther of Soul, James Brown, plays a high-spirited reverend leading the choir and congregation on "The Old Landmark." Before all this, Jake is released early from prison, and him and Elwood visit the Penguin, Sister Mary Stigmata (Kathleen Freeman) at the orphange where they were raised. They learn that the Church is no longer interested in keeping the orphanage, and the only way to keep it is if $5,000 is paid. They offer to help, but she doesn't want stolen money. The other part of their "family' is Curtis (Cab Calloway) who says that they need a little "Churching up". Once they experience Reverend Cleophus is where Jake gets inspired and joins the congregation dancing to the high-spirited gospel number. Him and Elwood are going to reunite their rhythm and blues band. They start recruiting and along the way, we see them jam with legendary musicians like Aretha Franklin who tells Matt "Guitar" Murphy to "think" before he goes back out with his "hoodlum friends." Yep, she breaks into that song. Play it loud! Before that as they ride through some sort of a street fair, they catch John Lee Hooker and his band playing that hot electric blues on "Boom Boom." I'd love to see him and his band in my town jamming. It sure looked like he was having a good time. These made music the way it was supposed to be: fun! Anyway, the Blues Brothers make an I.O.U. with Ray Charles at his music exchange on an electric piano. Ray and the B.B. band fully recruited jam an shake it up on "Shake Your Tail Feather." That is one of the best musical numbers ever in this film. There are people dancing in the streets and doing dances as Ray calls them off. Listen to the driving bass line. If that doesn't have you up and moving, you've lost the rhythm. Their first gig is unappointed and is at a country bar. They start on "Gimme Some Lovin" but the crowd grows angry. So they decide to "Rawhide" and "Stand By Your Man," which calms them down, sort of. The real "Good Ole Boys" arrive later and try to get back at the Brothers. Their real gig that's going to draw in the money is at a huge 5,000-seat auditorium. Cab Calloway and the band entertain the audience with "Minnie the Moocher". Watch when the song gets faster and Calloway scat sings with audience repeating the scats. Fun and funny. The Brothers finally arrive and the band plays "I Can't Turn You Loose." Oh, yeah, watch for an audience member similing directly at the camera. Look at me! They cut loose on "Everybody Needs Someone To Love". Oh, man, hot stuff! After the "Sweet Home Chicago" number, a record deal is made and they escape without being seen but bump into Jake's furious girlfriend (Carrie Fisher) and it's back to Chicago with the money with Nazis led by Henry Gibson, and a huge police force hot on their trail. Those are what enemies these pair of Robin Hoods make on the way. Watch the car stunts in this huge chase scene and the mammoth number of policmen, SWAT and armed forces clamoring into the destational office building. UNREAL! It's only a movie and they sure went all out on this with a mountain of a budget, but it paid off at the box office. What started out as a Saturday Night Live sketch became one of the most popular movies ever. For all music lovers; this has one of the most musically diverse soundtracks from blues to gospel to soul to R&B to latin to rock to country and even classical. Look out for the falling Pinto! Most memorable for the music. They made it fun and you'll be smiling and dancing through the musical numbers. Electrifying! "I need you, you, you..."

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Summary: Aging strangely
Review: Classic story about two obsessive Blues musicians, Jake and Elwood, who become fixated on reconstituting their band after Jake is released from a long prison stint. Their characters meet every seemingly insurmountable obstacle with the same deadpan bravado, and there is a revolving door of humor stemming from their characters, musical numbers featuring the great living blues icons, and action scenes, the emphasis being on Smokey and the Bandit-style police car chases. The action scenes are so dated that they're mildly comical; the music and the comedy have borne the years well.

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Summary: Should Be 10 Stars
Review: I'd say this is my favorite movie. The only movie that can compete with it, for me, is Back to the Future. This movie is very funny, The acting is superb, and on top of all that the music is terrific! There are appearences by Aretha Frankin, John Lee Hooker, Cab Calloway, James Brown and Ray Charles. The movie begins with Jake Blues getting out of jail and his brother Elwood coming to pick him up..... in a police car! Turns out Elwood traded their old Cadillac for a microphone and baught this police car second hand. After picking up Jake from jail, Elwood drives him to the orphanage where they grew up to visit the Nun who runs it.
Elwood: "You Promised you'd visit the Penguin the day you got out"
Jake: "Yeah... so I lied"
Elwood: "You can't lie to a Nun!" "We gotta go in there and visit the Penguin"
So, reluctantly, they go in to visit "Tht Penguin" During the visit they find out that the orphanage can't afford to pay it's $5,000 in property tax, and is going to be sold to the board of education. Jake and Elwood are determined to get the tax money before it's too late, and decide to get their old band back together to raise money for the orphanage(after the Sister refuses to take their stolen money). I recommend this movie to anyone who is a fan of comedy and good music.

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Summary: Truely a classic
Review: But I am amazed at the price listings of $80-$150. Just wait until it is released again in 2005, will range in prices of $15-$20.


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Summary: do not pay this much for this movie
Review: this is a great movie but it is going to be rereleasing in a couple of months for only 19.99 do if you want to save alot of money do not buy it from the people on here you are getting ripped off


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Summary: One Great Rip Snortin' Blues/R&B Drenched Comedy!
Review: In a rare instance of a SNL skit translating WELL to big-screen (the only other exception being Wayne's World), John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd produced a hilarious high-speed wild-ride of non-stop laughs.

Completely throwing all known laws of physics out the window (witness the car jumps, surviving a transient hotel bombing, stealing an air-raid-siren et al), the Dynamic Duo of The Blues embarks on a do-or-die Mission From God to reunite their beloved band and save the orphanage that provided them a home growing up against all odds and obstacles? The odds and obstacles? Try the entire Chicago and Illinois state police forces, The Army, a local Neo-Nazi chapter, a hell-bent-on-violent-revenge former fiancee'(Carrie Fisher), a touring band that plays BOTH types of music (Country AND Western!)and a skeptical concert promoter (Steve Lawrence).

Some great guest appearances from Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Cab Colloway, John Lee Hooker and James Brown hold your interest as well as coutless police car pileups, hilarious encounters at Holiday Inns, and snooty French restaurants finding their old bandmates, disastrous gigs at redneck bars, Ackroyd's low-tech resourcefulness and a devastatingly hilarious mall chase that has to be seen to be believed! All throughout, you really get the feeling the two main characters LIVED the blues and not just played them.

It usre doesn't aspire to high art but it does aspire to hilarious fun and snappy action.

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Summary: A Blissful Homage To Mayhem and Classic R 'N' B
Review: Your first reaction to this film is to recoil at the destruction. You think, how much more damage can be done? Then director John Landis tops himself in the succeeding scenes. Unlike the film "1941" where the destruction was just pointless, there is a certain poetry to the chaos on display here. Not lost among the ruins are crackerjack production numbers by immortal r'n'b performers (Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, James Brown, Cab Calloway). Landis does not just give lip service to these performers he gives them an elaborate stage to show their stuff. I was a teenager when I first saw this film and it spurred my interest in this music. Even the Sam and Dave cassette tape that the brothers play in their car piqued my interest. John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd are deliciously low-key as the brothers. Alot of good cameos in this film. Just tighten your seatbelts and enjoy the fun.

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Summary: We're on a Mission from God
Review: The Blues Brothers features Dan Akyrod and John Belushi(RIP) in thier comedy classic flim from their Saturday Night Live skit. Jake Blues(John Belushi)is released from prison and after that he tells his brother Elwood(Dan Akyrod) that he wants to put the band back together. Jake and Elwood go to all of these crazy adventures and it also features cameos from James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles(RIP) and more. It also features alot of musical numbers and great songs. I love this movie and it is up their in my DVD movie collection. I suggest you guys pick this movie if your looking for some laughs, or some music this is the movie for you!

Lady: Are you the police?
Elwood: No ma'am were musicans.

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Summary: Destructive sequences are sometimes nasty in this film
Review: It was ok for very comely Carrie Fisher's character to shoot at Jake and Elwood and blow up a store window but when she destroys the whole boarding house they live in that was just horribly gratutious on the writer's part and overblown (no pun intended). Another unnecessary bit comes when the Nazis car plummets in Chicago and (unnecessary bit) there's some fag talk between the nazis. Outside of these wrong bits it's a perfect film.

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Summary: A new version coming out soon!
Review: It's been rumored that a re-release for the 25th anniversary will be coming out, so nobody fret about the DVD no longer existing. As far as I know, it will be the orginal theatrical cut and much shorter, just for the musical numbers. So everybody just hold out for the anniverary edition and everything will be okay.