Review of The Blues Brothers (1980) by Lanning : — 05 Jan 2019

I can't believe it's been almost 40 years since I saw this movie last. For some reason, I have this idea that Akroyd and Belushi did more songs. For me, that would be the main reason to see this. It's a major disappointment for me that they do so few. Their repertoire on Saturday Night Live was larger, if I'm actually remembering that correctly -- which I may not be.

A great list of music makers in this movie. Cab Calloway comes away with the largest acting part of the singers, and he pulls off his acting portions well.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that the cost of making this movie was enormous, definitely one of the largest. Maybe 200 or 300 cars wrecked, along with property worth millions. One of the most destructive movies.

The actor payroll would have contributed to this stupendous cost as well.

I think my mom, who was from Chicago, would have liked their love for the city, but even though this has become a bit of a cult classic, I'd say that she would not have enjoyed the movie very much.

It pains me greatly, since I loved them as short range sketch artists, that neither of these SNL grads can do much in terms of acting, but this was a nice job of carrying over to the big screen.