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The Blues Brothers (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 8, 1998
- Originally Released: 1980
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi | |
Performer: | James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Kathleen Freeman, Carrie Fisher & Henry Gibson | |
Directed by | John Landis | |
Screenwriting by | Dan Aykroyd & John Landis | |
Composition by | Elmer Bernstein | |
Cameo: | Steven Spielberg, Frank Oz, Chaka Khan, John Landis, John Candy, John Lee Hooker, Aretha Franklin, Charles Napier, Twiggy & Judy Jacklin | |
Produced by | Robert K. Weiss |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 9/10 --
The Blues Brothers is, by any objective standard, a messy wreck... That this is so does not in anyway change that it is an absolutely wonderful movie.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
[A] raucous, rumbling, rambling musical comedy, which features legendary performances from Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Cab Calloway.
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: A --
...an epic musically charged comedy, the likes of which has never been seen before or since.
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ColeSmithey.com
Rating: 4/5 --
Formless, chaotic and lazy, and quite brilliant because of it.
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Times (UK)
BLUES BROTHERS may be among the last original movie musicals to incorporate song and dance performances into its plot, rather than grafting them on as concert material.
New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
The mere spectacle of Elwood and Jake in their shades isn't quite as giggle-inducing as it presumably was back in 1980, but the stunts are still awe-inspiring, and there's plenty of laughs. They really were thinking big.
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Guardian
Rating: 3/5 --
I have never been quite sure why this $30 million comedy made by John Landis in 1980 became such a cult.
London Evening Standard
Product Description:
In roles made famous by their famed SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE skit, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi star as Ellwood and Jake Blues in this extremely entertaining and successful comedy. Upon Jake's release from prison, the brothers are reunited and visit the orphanage they grew up in--only to discover that it is in danger of being shut down by the county for failure to pay taxes. With a little help from James Brown as a revival preacher, the Blues Brothers are divinely inspired to raise the $5,000 that the orphanage needs to stay open. On their mission from God, they must reunite their old band and raise the money by playing various gigs around town. The wild adventures of the band include dodging evil neo-Nazis, playing in a rowdy redneck bar, and narrowly escaping the crazed Carrie Fisher as Jake's ex-fiancée, who is out to see him dead. Finally, the boys have to get to a gig at the Palace Hotel Ballroom and deliver the $5,000 to the county assessor's office--leading to one of the most wild and hysterical car-chase smash-ups in film history. John Landis has spiced this wonderful romp with fabulous rhythm-and-blues numbers from such greats as Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Cab Calloway, and Ray Charles.
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- Sales Rank: 20,063
- UPC: 025192029929
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