Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73632 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-02-27
• Rating: Unrated
• Formats: Collector's Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English

Customer Reviews

Awesome music! Awesome movie!
Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) picks up his brother Jake (John Belushi), after Jake is released from prison. They go to visit the nun who runs the orphanage where they were raised, only to learn that the orphanage is about to close due to a lack of funds. The Blues Brothers head to a church where the reverend (James Brown) helps them see the Light. "The band!" They need to get their old band together so they can have a concert to raise the money to save the orphanage. But this isn't a Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland movie. Standing in the Blues Brothers way are an angry rejected ex-girlfriend (Carrie Fisher), a group of neo-Nazis, and the police, who want to put the Blues Brothers back in jail for the crazy chaos that follows in their wake.

The Blues Brothers movie is one of those classics fans will want to see over and over until they have memorized all their favorite lines. Aretha Franklin. James Brown. Cab Calloway. Ray Charles. The comic genius of Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. And the comic-action of director John Landis. How could anyone not love this film?

One more thing, for some reason, this DVD version is listed as "Not Rated." The film was originally rated R for language and cartoon-style violence, but this was before the PG-13 rating was created. By today's standards, it would probably be rated PG-13.

Blues Brothers Rock
I had not seen this movie in perhaps 25 years, and I had forgotten just how good it is, and how much good music there is in it. The Blues Brothers almost single handedly revived the blues music industry with the album selling 3.5 million copies. Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and other well known artists assist along the way with some outstanding dancers too numerous to list.

Combine all of this with the comedy of John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, and Carrie Fisher--the woman definitely has issues--and you have a great movie. See this movie and I dare you to keep your feet still, because they will move to the music... unless you're quiet dead.