THE BLUES BROTHERS
Genre
Musical, Comedy
Language
VOA
Duration
133
Rating
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“I love this movie. It’s so absurd and funny at the same time, but also serious. [...] All the artists in this movie are such legends ; Ray Charles, James Brown, Aretha Franklin… [...] I think it’s a movie that everyone must see.”
Synopsis: Musicians and brothers “Joliet” Jake Blues and Elwood Blues, are reunited after Jake is released from prison. The brothers then decide to fulfill a “mission from God” by bringing their old band back together for a performance to raise $5,000 to save the Roman Catholic orphanage where they had grown up. But this endeavor will prove itself more complicated and chaotic than they had expected.
“What’s a little startling about this movie is that all of this works. 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 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.” (ROGER EBERT)
Directed by
John Landis
Actors
John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles,
Country
United States
Version
Original English Version
Release year
1980