The Blues Brothers (Widescreen 25th Anniversary Edition)
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Actor: Cab Calloway, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, John Belushi, John CandyBrand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
Primary Contributor: Dan Aykroyd
Primary Contributor: John Belushi
Primary Contributor: Cab Calloway
Primary Contributor: John Candy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 133 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-30
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of The Blues Brothers (Widescreen 25th Anniversary Edition)
DVD Review: The Blues Brothers: A Fantastic Film for Fantastic people
Summary: 5 Stars
The Blues Brothers is a wonderful film about two brothers from a Church orphanage located in Chicago. They grow up to become not quite so gentlemanly. Even so they have good hearts. "Joliet" Jake Blues is released from prison and picked up by his brother El Wood Blues. They go "on a mission from God" to save the church where they were raised. How do they do this? They put the band back together. The movie climaxes to a performance that makes enough money to save the church, however it is at the cost of Jake and El Wood being chased by the police and other people for the majority of the movie. The movie concludes with the whole band playing in jail, right where the movie started. It is a feel good, musical movie that the whole family can enjoy. I highly recommend this movie for all people of all ages. It is a wonderful time to sit back and relax.DVD Review: The Blues Brothers
Summary: 5 Stars
I am very pleased with my purchase!!! It was shipped very fast, and item was as promised!!!DVD Review: Belushi lives on!
Summary: 5 Stars
In general, I don't mind the extra footage added to the movie. Some of it could have stayed lost, like the scene where Elwood leaves his job, but some of the other footage is fantastic. We get to hear the full length versions of Boom Boom Boom, Peter Gunn Theme, Can't Turn You Loose and Everybody Needs Somebody to Love. Those alone make the movie great. It's also great seeing any kind of extra footage with Belushi in it. When someone dies that young, seeing the extra footage is like coming across video of somebody that you didn't know existed. This movie shows how the original was butchered so badly in the editing room after Universal ordered it cut down. They don't have a copy of the original version that was close to 3 hours long with an intermission, it was destroyed before the movie was released. The movie was made at a time when MTV was not yet established, therefore, people's attention spans were not so short. So while some reviewers here might complain about the extra footage of the Blues Bros parking the Bluesmobile, as a fan of films, especially those made up until 1980, I love the attention to the details that filmmakers put into their works. It reminds me of Apocolypse Now and The Good The Bad and The Ugly because of the way the director took a long time establishing his shots. It's a well made film in spite of itself. I know the film went over budget and that Belushi was messed up on coke and the film was too long in length and short on jokes. It also came out against The Empire Strikes Back and during a year that movie attendance was down in general, the critics crucified it and didn't make its money back at the time. In spite of it all, it manages to be a memorable classic. It did wonders for blues music and blues artists. Until this movie, I had never heard of Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, etc etc etc and I definitely wasn't listening to James Brown, Aretha Franklin & Cab Calloway. Not the greatest movie of all time but one that definitley needs to be in your library and tons of quotable lines. Long live Joliet Jake!DVD Review: A classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
What can I say this is a classic. Why they don't have it at stores with other "classics" is a mystery. We love it as a family!DVD Review: DVD for my kids
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this DVD for my sixteen year old boys who loved the movie. I received it quickly and buying from Amazon is always a breeze.
Description of The Blues Brothers (Widescreen 25th Anniversary Edition)
THE BROTHERS LEAN THAT THIER OLD ORPHANAGE WILL BE CLOSED AND SOLD WITHIN DAYS UNLESS THE PROPETY TAX IS PAID AND QUICKLY. SO THEY DECIDE TO PUT THEIR BLUES BAND BACK TOGETHER AND START THEIR MISSION FROM GOD WHICH SEEMS TO MAKE MORE ENEMIES THANFRIENDS. WILL THEY COME UP WITH THE MONEY IN TIME.After building up the duo's popularity through popular recordings and several performances on Saturday Night Live, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd--as "legendary" Chicago blues brothers Jake and Elwood Blues--took their act to the big screen in this action-packed hit from 1980. As Jake and Elwood struggle to reunite their old band and save the Chicago orphanage where they were raised, they wreak enough good-natured havoc to attract the entire Cook County police force. The result is a big-budget stunt-fest on a scale rarely attempted before or since, including extended car chases that result in the wanton destruction of shopping malls and more police cars than you can count. Along the way there's plenty of music to punctuate the action, including performances by Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway, and James Brown that are guaranteed to knock you out. As played with deadpan wit by Belushi and Aykroyd, the Blues Brothers are "on a mission from God," and that gives them a kind of reckless glee that keeps the movie from losing its comedic appeal. Otherwise this might have been just a bloated marathon of mayhem that quickly wears out its welcome (which is how some critics described this film and its 1998 sequel). Keep an eye out for Steven Spielberg as the city clerk who stamps some crucial paperwork near the end of the film. --Jeff Shannon
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