Forced to watch this when ill, i have to admit to not at all wanting to watch this but it beat having to watch World Darts!! However, after a boring start and a little complaint, i was soon tapping my foot and singing along to this fantastic film. With such a great cast present, who could not like this film?! ( unless you're one of those people with no understanding of great music!!!!)
"We're on a mission from God" "It's 160 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank, half pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." It doesn't get any funnier that this!
The movie that made so much money, it formed a trust that guaranteed every SNL cast member henceforth would get their own cinematic vehicle. Seems that way. This is the good one, filled with great R&B music.
A great movie. A classic because it wasn't contrived or wasn't trying to be something. It just had a inspired original idea, and it worked. it was entertaining, humurous and the car scenes - amazing.
nothing can beat the original.
This is such a weird movie. Like, I honestly have troube explaining it. You laugh, you freak out, you laugh some more and then you realize that you're lying on the floor and the movie ended twelve hours ago, but you passed out because you laughed so hard that you had a lack of air. This movie is amazing; totally for that little person inside of you that hates Illinois Nazi's (and really, who doesn't?). Maybe not for the whole family, but holy-hammocks Batman, this movie is amazing. Most of the time... I do admit to one or two moments of... non-laughing-ness, but it's almost a part of SNL. It can't be good all the time.
I?ve spent many hours of my life catching up with late-seventies/early-eighties ?classic? comedies, and they rarely if ever live up to the hype. During that era a string of comedies came out that people inexplicably have labeled ?classics? and quote ad nausea, but which I find little to enjoy about. The Blues Brothers, which I watch for the first time now, in not an exception but I will say it at least isn?t as overrated or unfunny as Animal House or Caddyshack. I did think John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd managed to create watchable characters, the music was good, and the production seemed pretty good. The problem is it isn?t funny... at all. I didn?t laugh once through the whole thing. This is supposed to be a comedy, right? Many critics describe Ackroyd as the straight man and Belushi as the wild zany guy, but I can?t really see this, both seemed to be the exact same character. The two both seemed to have the exact same deadpan looks on their faces through the whole movie. Many seem to think that having a deadpan look on ones face as crazy shenanigans ensue, I don?t, nor do I find said shenanigans funny in and of themselves. So I don?t have much to laugh at here. The film?s tone is all over the place, one minute it?s a relatively down to earth tale of pair of strange people in suits bringing a band together, the next minute it?s going into extended musical numbers, and the next it?s going into wacky slapstick that?s beyond over the top. Calling this some kind of masterpiece seems like madness in my book, but comedy is particularly subjective so to each his own (though I suspect ruby glasses have more than a little to do with the film?s current reputation).
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