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Summary: It was really hilarious and I loved it.
Review: You'll really love this movie even if you don't like comedies
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Summary: Funny, with great music
Review: Most of the humor in what could have been a low-brow plunge is actually quite sophisticated. Cameos by musical greats enliven this exciting story of two bad boys who try to save a church by making money with their band. The car chase at the end is the best I've ever seen, and I'm none too fond of car chases. Surprisingly good film.
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Summary: this movie is very very funny
Review: my favorite part in the move is when john pulls out a pack of smokes and pretends its a badge and fools the guy into beliving that hes a restorant inspetor
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Summary: The Blues Brothers (Best Film Ever)
Review: I first saw this film when I was 5 even now 15 years later I still rate it as one of my favourite films of all time. The film is full with classic lines and cool songs. It inspired a generation to return to such blues legends as James Brown and Arethra Franklin. Landis said that if his film achieved little more it rejuvenated these and other artists careers, which was achievement enough. The Blues Brothers themselves, Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi were far from a polished act, but their sheer love for the music shine through and lift their performances above artists with superior vocal and intrumental skill. It features probably the largest car crash in any movie ever which is fun to say the least. The movie is touched now by a hint of sadness, at the loss of the great John Belushi. A great comedian and a sad loss from a drugs overdose. Fans should take the opportunity to watch him on his best form. If you like the music from this film you should check out the other Blues Brothers albums which are genuine cult classics in there own right.
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Summary: A must-have for all BB-fans, with surprising extra footage
Review: I thought it could not surprise me again, yet it did. John Landis' blockbuster and cult movie the Blues Brothers has always been my number one. This version, however, does everything DVD promised to do from the start: excellent picture, brillant sound, sub-titles and, what's more, a more than half-an-hour "making of", plus pictures of the recordings, and, to top it off, 12 minutes of extra, not yet published, material, which makes it lots of fun for those who know the film to spot the differences/additions. Worth every penny for those who already know the film (by heart), but also for those who yet lack the experience. END
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Summary: Funny and action packed
Review: It is so funny you will have tears in your eyes. END
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Summary: The Best Movie!
Review: This movie is the best! Simply the best movie! Lots of Blues music, lots of Elwood and Jake dancing, and tons of car chases because their always running away from the cops! But remember-they'll never get caught, they're on a mission from God. I think everyone should get this and watch this over and over! The performances are great, the singing, and the dancing! You'll love this movie, and it'll become your favorite! If not, It sure has been added to my DVD collection, and it's been my favorite movie now for over three months, and I watch it all the time!
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Summary: I feel good and you will too!
Review: Here is one of the few movies in my lifetime that qualifies as a "feel good" flick, one where I left so fulfilled I actually missed the characters, story and fun when the movie is over, wanting it all back again. Fortunately, through the miracle of tape and DVD, you and I can both do that!This production was the linchpin event for the Saturday Night Live characters that wore black suits and sunglasses before the equally fashion-challenged "Men In Black" showed up. Along with "Animal House", this flick reminds me what a great comedy career John Belushi would have had in cinema had he lived more safely (as long as he stayed away from bombs like "1941"). Back to the film...this is loaded with great music, music from many 20th Century ages, music that makes you want to hum, tap your toe, dance, delight, smile, kiss your girlfriend and say hello to God. The plot -- something about getting money for an orphanage -- is superfluous but the movie has memorable scenes and characterizations equal to the equally uninhibited "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World" from 1963. A hyperactive musical street scene coming out of a music store -- led by the late Ray Charles doing a great blues tune -- is a typical venue in this film. Another time, Aretha Franklin takes a break from her waitress job to sing threateningly to Jake and Elmore. Still another time, Cab Calloway entertains kids so the brothers can get their cash to Chicago. In another scene, the Blues Brothers band does it up good in a honky tonk but drinks too much beer and ends up in a police-car-RV chase with some good old boys known as...the Good Old Boys! This movie destroyed about 200 cars in and around Chicago and has one of the funniest car crash scenes and accompanying lines in American film history. The line is: "We're in a truck!" Watch the movie to get the joy from it. You'll laugh out loud and enjoy it almost as much as those Nazis driving off the end of the incomplete freeway overpass in Chicago! If you want to experience mayhem disguised as two hours of uninhibited escapism filled with great fun, a thousand car chases and car crashes, lowlifes, ex-convicts and rednecks, and some of the best choreographed music sequences ever, buy, rent or borrow this DVD today and get set to ENJOY YOURSELF!
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Summary: Unique and historical achievement
Review: Unique, wonderful, hilarious. "The Blues Brothers" holds up even better than one might have hoped. And that's a beautiful thing for one of the most unique movies ever made. Conceived, as Belushi once put it, as a show case for African-American music, the movie is exactly that and so much more. I was moved to watch the "Shake Your Tail Feather" scene due to Ray Charles' recent death. The performance is so wonderful, so full of life; we have lost a true national treasure. But his amazing performance for the movie will live on forever. The soundtrack's 5.1 remix (including the reintegration of old footage cut from a preview at the Picwood Theater in LA. According to Landis, in the DVD's liner notes, the movie distributors complained no white people would see the movie!) is simply amazing. Even on my bargain set, it is crisp, pure and clean and is probably my candidate for best sound DVD ever. Landis again demonstrates his technical mastery, understanding of technology and choice of brilliant helpmates. As the same Landis once put it, "Where else can a white kid see Cab Calloway, John Lee Hooker and James Brown in the same two hours?" He left out Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin as well as studio legends Steve "The Colonel" Cropper (who almost single-handed reintroduced cocaine to Hollywood, the number of people who began their addictions under his tutelage is frightening but no names here; you'll have to look it up yourself); and bass legend "Duck" Dunn, one of the greatest bassists of all times (sorry, Duck, my man, even you have to bow, with every other bassist, to Geddy Lee). Normally invisible, we get to see and here the Blues Brothers' amazing band. These studio legends get there fifteen minutes, often to hilarious effect. Willie "Too-Bit" Hall, the drummer even shows really comic talent, as does Dunn and "Mr. Fabulous," the horn man. The movie also preserves the now destroyed Maxwell Street, one of the great centers of African-American music and R&B and one of the seedbeds of rock n roll. This is the only place anyone can see Maxwell Street in its prime. In a sense the movie is also a historical document, preserving those people and places who have left us. The plot is almost irrelevant, beside the almost hysterical comedy and stunning musical performances (Calloway and Franklin never did BETTER jobs on their two signature classics), but there is a story there. The cameos are hilarious as well, from Carrie Fischer (who has said she quit coke because Belushi, on set, one day pointed at her and said, "You're becoming just like me." On that note, Robin Williams also says his visit to Belushi on his ultimate night helped him give up the Life that took his friend) and the Keystone Nazis the Boys have to avoid in their quest to save their childhood home, a dilapidate orphanage on Chicago's South side. The "Flight of the Pinto" scene is not to be missed. And be sure to listen for the tell-tale mating call of a most un-endangered species, "hut-hut-hut."
A movie for the ages. It also highlights the bitter tragedy of Belushi's self-destruction. One can only imagine what a sobered and cleaned-up Belushi could do when he did this movie whilst doing 4 grams of coke a day, dropping acid, downers, booze, marijuana (all of this is in Boobward's sensationalist "biography" of Belushi called "Wired"). Unlike other famous drug addicts and alcoholic (Monroe, Presley, Dean) Belushi's fortunately has been taken as a warning sign of Hollywood excess and hasn't lead to his apotheosis. Despite his tragic end, the movie is one of the few that, no matter my troubles I can put this movie in the DVD player and know I will be smiling in mere minutes. As I smile now, writing this. Every American teenager should see this simply for the musical numbers alone. The word classic is misused as often as the word "hero" these days, but it's not misused here. What could have been the umpteenth bad iteration of "Animal House" instead attained the temporary immortality of the true classic. Belushi's been gone for more than twenty years now, but the brilliant John, the hilarious John, the gifted performer John Belushi will live on forever. And, wherever you are John that has to make you smile.
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Summary: A milestone in film history
Review: ...that's what I think, and I'm sure I don't stand alone with my opinion. "Blues Brothers" is an absolute cult movie, its anarchic charme providing it with a fixed place in film history. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as the protagonists are simply cool, their band members are extraordinary musicians (e.g. Steve Cropper, guitar, and Donald Dunn, bass, were members of 60's instrumental combo Booker T. & The M.G.'s) and you will meet lots of well-known actors as well. What you also get is the probably best car-chase in film history, the total destruction of a huge shopping mall and outstanding musical performances with appearances by John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway and many more. This movie guarantees sheer delight for its audience; so if you want to have a great time, there's no way than to watch "Blues Brothers".
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