As a little kid, 'The Blues Brothers' taught me the foundations of American music. It also taught me that cops, Nazis and good old boys are to be mercilessly mocked and messed with.

| Jun 3, 2024

It ends up frequenting common places where the dry humor supplied by Aykroyd and Belushi's chemistry wears out like a car tire. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 7, 2024

One of the great American comedy films... It’s just a joy to watch even forty three years on. John Belushi was never better as the lead. He’s funny just standing there.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 24, 2023

More energetic than funny.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 20, 2023

No matter that the big screen story gets convoluted and improbable-the characters make it work. They sing classic rhythm and blues songs well enough, but better yet, perform with the greats.

| Aug 11, 2021

The Blues Brothers are a popular novelty, and have a definite tongue-in-cheek appeal. But this film does nothing with the characters, except to portray them as a couple of one-sided and unlikable hoods.

| Dec 21, 2020

The Blues Brothers is the year's best film to date; one of the, all-time great comedies; the best movie ever made in Chicago. All are true, and, boy, is that ever a surprise.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 21, 2020

The Blues Brothers is unlike anything you've ever seen before, at once touching and far-far out -- and most of all, best of all, it is hugely entertaining.

| Dec 21, 2020

Too many times, The Blues Brothers is static when it should be ecstatic. When it tries to hit the heights, it's not nearly dizzying enough And when it should soar, it simply hangs there.

| Dec 21, 2020

Despite the temporary lift that the old pros give the picture, it is difficult for the non-cultist to feel anything but dismay, again, that so much has been squandered to produce so little that is truly artful or genuinely entertaining.

| Dec 21, 2020

As spectacular as the chases are, Blues Brothers works because of Aykroyd and Belushi, who play off each other with nearly flawless timing and sustain it throughout the movie's two hours and 10 minutes.

| Dec 21, 2020

The film is a monument to car wreckage, with a tip of the hat to rhythm and blues. If you've seen the preview, you've seen the movie.

| Dec 21, 2020

Only the music, a collection of rock and blues hits, is palatable but not enough to pull this film out of the gutter.

| Dec 21, 2020

With a simple narrative based around the- brothers trying to put together a band and raising money for the orphanage that moulded them with numerous complications along the way there are plenty of chances for viewers to be entertained.

| Dec 21, 2020

The film is a dreary waste of crude gags and misfiring stunts. But... small relief is afforded along the way by musical encounters (all too brief) with John Lee Hooker, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles.

| Dec 21, 2020

But, for all those excesses. The Blues Brothers is jaunty enough often enough and joyous enough just enough to escape total disaster and to tantalize the determined.

| Dec 21, 2020

Landis' staging and camera blocking aren't always up to the task, but the performers are so electrifying, it doesn't much matter.

| Dec 21, 2020

The Blues Brothers is a joke that went too far.

| Dec 21, 2020

The Blues Brothers really is the sort of enterprise that makes, you wonder what the world is coming to.

| Dec 21, 2020

The Blues Brothers keeps our attention with its general good humor musical expertise and the myriad of comic details with which Landis fills every scene.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2020