The Blues Brothers

Name: The Blues Brothers
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Music, Musical
Released: June 20, 1980
Duration: 133 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Cab Calloway, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi

1980

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: June 20, 1980 | R

Starring: Cab Calloway, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi

Summary: Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.

Director: John Landis

Genre(s): Action, Comedy, Crime, Music, Musical

Rating: R

Runtime: 133 min

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Gene Siskel

An exceptional comedy...Car wrecks and blues-related music galore in the best movie ever made in Chicago. [11 July 1980, p.3-8]

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The Telegraph Martin Chilton

The film also has stunning car chases, choreographed like the dancing in a musical, as the Blues Brothers are pursued throughout Chicago, at one point even tearing through a shopping mall, in their 'Bluesmobile', a retired 1974 Mount Prospect, Illinois Dodge Monaco patrol car. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

The stunts are still awe-inspiring, and there's plenty of laughs. They really were thinking big. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff [Not Credited]

THE BLUES BROTHERS is a monument to waste, noise and misplaced cool, but it does have its engagingly nutty moments. Read full review

Staff [Not Credited]

If Universal had made it 35 years earlier, The Blues Brothers might have been called Abbott & Costello in Soul Town. Level of inspiration is about the same now as then, the humor as basic, the enjoyment as fleeting. But at $30 million, this is a whole new ball-game. Read full review

Janet Maslin

There are parts of The Blues Brothers that would have played infinitely better with a knock-about feeling, a sloppiness like that of "Animal House." As it is, the movie is airless. The stakes needn't have been so suffocatingly high. Read full review

Gary Arnold

Ironically, the stars didn't get it together either. The Blues Brothers offers the melancholy spectacle of them sinking deeper and deeper into a comic grave. Read full review

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geewah

Jan 17, 2021

A classic.
One of the most quotable comedies of all time.
And the car chases. The likes you've never seen before.
Did I mention the music. Amazing.