anselmdaniel This review contains spoilers.The Blues Brothers is a feature length movie on a Saturday Night Live skit on two brothers leading a soul band. The movie begins following one of the brothers as one of them is released from prison and seeks to save an orphanage from being demolished. The Blues Brothers seeks to bring their band back together and undergo a tour to raise enough money. Along the way, the group has a series of adventures.The Blues Brothers is a fun and cool adventure. The movie has two great leads that propel the movie, Dan Akyroid and John Belushi. These leads are incredibly charismatic in their roles. The movie uses this to its advantage well by having these two characters have great dialogue. I was constantly entertained by listening to the comedy and watching the great sketches unfold on the screen. The movie has ridiculous and impossible scenes that become hilarious to watch. As the characters said, they are on a mission from God that seemingly grants them a pass from progressively ridiculous events. The movie is written to take the ridiculous approach to comedy and it works in this movie's favor.I was able to enjoy The Blues Brothers without watching any of the previous Saturday Night Live sketches. I would recommend this movie.

cyorke-34660 This movie is just awesome. The music is phenomenal, the cast is amazing and the story is great. The music legends in this movie are also great. They aren't just a random big name extra, a lot of them play a big part in the movie. In conclusion, I recommend this movie if you want to have a sing and a dance aswell as a laugh. 10/10

inapl5 Unfortunately a software bug in the IMDB code doesn't allow me scoring 16 stars instead of just ten, for this epic movie... And I must say that really I never tried to score more than 10 stars here on IMDB, simply because no movie ever reached such a level, IMHO! The BB is simply a perfect cocktail that cannot be judged with the standard criteria of other movies, it's a magical mixture of musical giant performers, extraordinary comic storyboard, really incredible comic situations and irresistible characters able to produce an over the top legendary experience. This movie belongs to a sort of celestial sphere, well above the so many perfect packages that Hollywood delivered. Technnically The BB shows many "flaws" and imperfections, even in the editing, but these do not reduce in any way the extraordinary audio-visual & on-soul impact. After watching and loving the movie, we'll discover that Jake and Elwood are really a part of ourselves, they are ourselves with the full load of energy and positive vision towards the live that we (should) have! I've seen The BB many times, the first two in the Italian Cinema, in 1980, where people really was becaming crazy for it, and when I watch at it again now, I don't see a movie getting older but, on the contrary, a fresh, young, and vivid story of the best we have into our souls. And supplied with a firework of overwhelming joy and memorable blues music. A suggestion: if you own the DVD (everybody should have it), watch at the bonus content that will tell you a lot about what's behind this extraordinary movie!

gab-14712 The Blue Brothers is one of the most odd films of the 1980's. The film carries itself with utmost grace and it is that grace and heart that saves the movie from going too bonkers. Filled to the brim with car chases from everyone ranging from a zillion cops to a plethora of neo-Nazis plus an array of song and dance numbers, the movie lives dangerously. It threatens to go way over-the-top, but the charisma of both John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd does the movie wonders. There are a huge amount of celebrity cameos that also add to the exciting fun this movie offers. Ray Charles as a soulful music shop owner, Aretha Franklin as a manager of a restaurant, James Brown as a preacher, and a whole bunch of non-music celebrity cameos.This film was directed by John Landis, whom previously worked with John Belushi in the hilarious 1978 film, Animal House. This whole premise is based off the very popular Saturday Night Live skit that Belushi and Aykroyd created. After Jake Blues (John Belushi) is released from prison, he and his brother Elwood (Dan Akyroyd) visit the orphanage where they grew up. They learn that the Archdiocese will stop raising money for the orphanage and they will auction the place off. This is when Jake receives a, "mission from God." This mission has the brothers reuniting their old blues band to perform a big gig to raise the necessary 5000 dollars needed to save the place. As they set about their adventure, they seem to be making more 'friends' along the way.The impeccable charms of the cast is one of the great things about the movie. Belushi is a great actor and he shares great chemistry with Aykroyd. Just like in Animal House, you can't help rooting for the big man. That guy was absolutely funny here. In addition to wonderful leads, we have a whole slew of cameos to mention. My favorite one is Carrie Fisher's role as a mystery woman who suddenly appears out of nowhere with these giant rocket launchers just to kill Jake. I liked John Candy as the one of the hit men after Jake. Also, Henry Gibson deserves credit as the leader of the neo-Nazi gang. We also have a range of musicians in the move such as the likes of Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and Ray Charles. All of these people really added charm into the movie.If there would be anything to bring down the film, it would be how over-the-top the film is. I mostly enjoyed how crazy the film got at times, but I know people who had complaints. For example, the Joliet Brothers are chased in the end by what seems to be every police force, the entire U.S Army, and crazy Neo-Nazis….all at once. It may be much for someone to comprehend, but then again the movie works because it truly embraces how silly it can get. It uses its two comedic leads in Aykroyd and Candy as the force of the film and everything else is worked around these two men.Overall, this is a very fun film filled with an abundant amount of energy. It's funny, over-the-top, and musically-inclined. I see right away why this film is an instant classic and it goes down as one of my favorite movies.My Grade: A