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Summary: Uh Oh, Better Call Maaco!
Review: Why watch a 1980 movie?* Great music
* Great car chases and crashes
* John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Steve Cropper, Carrie Fisher, John Candy, Twiggy, Frank Oz, Chaka Khan, John Lee Hooker, Steven Spielberg, and many more
* A funny plot as strong as the characters You've heard about the car chases and pileups? Besides the massive crunching and flying of vehicles, they show you the real Chicago as well as the landmarks. As chases go, I have never seen a better one. It is like "Starsky and Hutch" times 250. Seeing Cab Calloway is a high point. He was 73 when the movie came out, and told a younger generation that "Minnie the Moocher" was a red hot hoochie-coocher. His fame was mostly in the 1940s but his swagger still remained. Many of the actors with bit parts are surprising. Steven Spielberg and Chaka Khan sneak in there, as does Frank Oz. Calloway, Belushi, Candy, Hooker are gone from this life, and James Brown's career is stymied by personal troubles. The movie has all of them together. Everything is about Jake and Elwood's mission from God. That's how they see their goal of raising money for an orphanage. They only know one way of making legit cash, and that's through music. Jake has been incarcerated and so the Blues Brothers band broke up. Jake and Elwood gather up the old member one by one, and finally talk their way into a gig. There are enough police who would see it another way, and other bands, old girlfriends, Nazis and wives getting in the way, and into some of the most fun that ever hit Lower Wacker. The extras on the DVD are interesting. The documentary is the only real value, considering John Belushi's untimely death. The sound lacks in depth and stereo quality. You can make up for this by buying the soundtrack. I fully recommend "The Blues Brothers." Anthony Trendl
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Summary: All about the music...
Review: The Blues Brothers is a great movie, but it's all about the music! If you get into it, you will soon be clicking your fingers to the catchy tunes, especially such tracks as 'Shake a Tail Feather' with the legendary Ray Charles and 'Sweet Home Chicago', the song at the end of the movie.
The car chases are great, considering it was the early 80s and there was no computer-enhancement, the plot is good enough and there are some real killer jokes along the way, including my favourite line "We're not police ma'am, we're musicians."
John Belushi and Dan Akroyd are excellent as the leads on a self-described 'mission from God', with a star-studded list of musical guests, and the DVD also offers a very interesting 'Making of' feature that goes back to how the Blues Brothers started as a band before the movie.
If there is one aspect of this film that makes it better than most comedies, it is the great blues music.
Guaranteed to entertain you, and is an essential part of any real DVD collection!
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Summary: LOVE IT
Review: This is one of my all time favorite movies. I saw it a week ago and totally fell in love with it. I'm hoping Amazon gets a new shipment soon because I want to buy it SOOO bad.
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Summary: great movie
Review: This is a movie about two guys who are on a mission from god, to get back the blues brothers. This movie actually has a lot of action and shooting. And it's reall funny. Also here appear some big names in music like john lee hooker, ray charles, james brown, and aretha franklin. It's a really good movie. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Superb
Review: Blues Brothers starts out when Jake Blues(Belushi) is released from jail and picked up by his brother Elwood Blues(Akroyd). They are called to their childhood "home" an orphanage led by "The Penguin", a mean old nun. She gives them a "divine mission". They have to collect 5.000 $ that the orphanage owes the government in taxes. From here the story picks up, as the Blues Brothers try to get together their old outfit in order to raise the money for their childhood home.
This movie is filled to the brim with blues legends in supporting roles: Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles and James Brown...
Belushi and Akroyd seem to support each other perfectly all the way through the movie, which includes propably THE most destructive car chase in history.
Alot of people get a punch; Nazi's, country musicians, paramilitary units(SWAT) and the police...noone are exempt from the humor of the blues brothers.
This is one of those rare movies that hit right home, and it seems like a flawless pearl, when looking at through the large library of mediocre humor around.
Get the movie, and do yourself a favour and get the soundtrack too.
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Summary: Helloooo Boys!......
Review: This review refers to the Universal Widescreen(Digitally THX Mastered) VHS edition of "The Blues Brothers"..... Saturday Night Live Alum together with a Who's Who list of the greatest Rhythm and Blues artists ever assembled in one film, make for one very entertaining, funny, action packed musical.The hard part of this review is keeping myself from revealing every funny line, and all the classic scenes that came from this film(and also all the great cameo performances you'll spot throughout the story).For those too young to remember this classic comedy, or if you haven't seen it for a while let me just refresh your memory(just a little)..... Jake "Joliet" Blues(the late great John Belushi)has just been released from prison. Brother Elwood Blues(Dan Aykroyd) picks him up and they're off to fullfill a promise to visit "The Penguin". Sister Mary Stigmata(Kathleen Freeman), the head nun at the Catholic Orphanage where they grew up informs them that the Orphanage will have to close down unless she can come up with the Five Thousand Dollars neccessary to pay the property taxes.No problem for "The Blues Brothers", they'll have the money she needs by tommorrow. But NO! NO! NO!, she does not want their filthy bank robbery money, and they are not to return until they can "redeem themselves"! While on a visit to church, where you'll find James Brown as The Reverend Cleophus James leading the congregation in song, Jake literally "sees the light!".They'll just put "The Blues Band" back together for one big night and raise the money for "The Penguin" and the Orphanage. Getting the band back together is easier said than done though.Along the way, we are treated to some musical performances by these great names..Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles and even Chaka Khan. The hysterical action also heats up as they make enemies all along the way. They are being chased by the cops,the Nazis(led by one very funny Henry Gibson), and a very angry ex-girlfriend(Carrie Fisher) who has a thing for Flame Throwers. They leave a path a destruction in their wake that is unsurpassed in chase scenes. It's a riotous romp, directed by John Landis(Animal House/Trading Places), that will leave you wanting more..and luckily...there's a sequel! "Blues Brothers 2000", which has the terrific addition of John Goodman to the cast.This VHS tape is terrific. Not only does it have a great picture in the original widescreen image(1.85:1), but the sound is digitally mastered, and is excellent in the stereo surround. There are even a couple of bonus features on this edition. There is the "Making Of" the sequel, talking with all the stars about coming back to do it again, and after the credits, you'll find the "making of" for the original, which clues you in on lots of little trivia details. If you're looking for something really funny, something with a great music, a great script, and one that will be a terrific addition to your classic comedy collection, look no further, you've found it! And don't forget to look for all the great cameos along the way..(I think I restrained myself pretty well from giving them away... don't you?)
Have a great time with this one and maybe you too will "see the light".......Laurie
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Summary: They're on a mission from God...
Review: It is appropriate that the music supervisors and choreographers are credited first in this film. Surely they did the most work, and it shows. This film is by far one of if not the very best comedy-musical I have ever seen. Loaded with laughs as well as some very excellent musical numbers and a climactic car chase too good to miss, this film is a comedy gem from director John Landis and stars Dan Akroyd and John Belushi. There are several laugh-out-loud moments as well as get-up-and-dance tunes. It's so fun, so energized, and so hip that disliking this movie is impossible! This would make a great family movie if it weren't for the frequent language. When the Blues Brothers finally get to their concert and start to sing "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love," I was clapping and cheering. Never has a film excited me and made me feel as good as "The Blues Brothers." It's a surefire hit and definite classic!
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Summary: American Music and dance
Review: I have heard about this movie for years, and thought it was for the young wild crowd. After accidentally catching it on cable, I loved the music, especially the song and dance scene on the stage runway. I will add it to my video collection soon. Thank you.
Senior citizen music lover
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Summary: Funny
Review: 'The Blues Brothers' was a funny movie when I saw it about 10 years ago.
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Summary: Four fried chickens and a coke
Review: There is nothing I can say about this movie that has not already been said. If you don't own or have never seen it--Get it immediately. This movie is a classic and it never gets old and it is always funny. What I love about this movie (aside from the music, the dialogue, the characters, the setting, the plot, etc, etc) is the realism of it all. It's one of those rare movies that presents itself as the real world, never breaks stride, and plays the whole thing straight, which is what makes it great and believable. I will ssy that The Blues Brothers is my favorite movie of all time and that The Blues Brothers 2000 is one of the worst, most pathetic, deplorable, disgusting sequels ever made. It's like the best vs. the worst.
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