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  1. Rated: 5/5 Aug 24, 2023 Full Review Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune The Blues Brothers is the year's best film to date; one of the, all-time great comedies; the best movie ever made in Chicago. All ...

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    • John Landis
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    • John Belushi
  2. Belushi and Aykroyd come over as hard-boiled city guys, total cynics with a world-view of sublime simplicity, and that all fits perfectly with the movie's other parts. There's even room, in the midst of the carnage and mayhem, for a surprising amount of grace, humor, and whimsy. Music. Comedy. Adventure.

  3. The "Blues Brothers" is a good comedy and a great musical, featuring James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and Cab Calloway as "guest" musicians (i.e., not members of the BB). The BB band is composed of excellent musicians such as Lou Marini, Alan Rubin and Donald "Duck" Dunn among others.

  4. Jul 16, 2006 · Kids say ( 58 ): THE BLUES BROTHERS holds a special place in cult movie lovers' hearts for a reason. It's surreal, it's got style, and it has great music. Indeed, it's a cross between a Saturday Night Live skit and a really great musical. Even if you hate the flimsy plot, you're likely to be humming the songs days later.

    • Aretha Franklin
    • John Landis
    • Universal Pictures
  5. But this film does nothing with the characters, except to portray them as a couple of one-sided and unlikable hoods. Full Review | Dec 21, 2020. The Blues Brothers is the year's best film to date ...

  6. Jun 20, 1980 · The Blues Brothers: Directed by John Landis. With Tom Erhart, Gerald Walling, John Belushi, Walter Levine. Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.

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  8. The Blues Brothers cost untold millions of dollars and kept threatening to grow completely out of control. But director John Landis (of “Animal House”) has somehow pulled it together, with a good deal of help from the strongly defined personalities of the title characters. Belushi and Aykroyd come over as hard-boiled city guys, total cynics ...

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