John Landis directs John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Carrie Fisher in this musical comedy about two jailbird brothers trying to get their blues band back together to save an orphanage. 

Indulgent, meandering, excessive. Yet the music is great… numbers from Aretha, Ray Charles, James Brown, John Lee Hooker and Cab Calloway, all absolutely rock. The Blues Brothers performances themselves have a magic. So the comedy that coddles all this gold is hit and miss… when Belushi and Aykroyd actually have a funny set piece to work with you can see what might have been. “How much for the little girl?”

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