The Blues Brothers 1980 123movies

Watch: The Blues Brothers 1980 123movies, Full Movie Online – After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit “The Penguin”, the last of the nuns who raised them in an orphanage. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The Blues Brothers want to help, and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their “mission from God” they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?.
Plot: Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back togther to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
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Ratings:

	7.9/10 Votes: 200,139
	73% | RottenTomatoes
	60/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 3551 Popularity: 18.66 | TMDB

Reviews:

Nitro and Glycerin
A musical comedy action fantasy should not work, especially when one considers that it is the first SNL skit-to-screen adventure (which, history has shown us, is a decidedly mixed bag). But this one does. Two of the best car chases in cinematic history bookend the film, and in between there are show-stopping musical numbers, raw humor, Illinois Nazis, and a seriously disgruntled ex-fiancee. And it all makes perfect sense in the context of the universe created by Aykroyd (who co-wrote), Landis (who directed), and Belushi (his barely contained zeal provides the battery pack for this film).

Jake (Belushi) and Elwood (Aykroyd) are the former front men of a broken down blues band (actually a stunning collection of blues talent) which disbanded after Jake was arrested several years before. Upon his release, he discovers that his boyhood orphanage home is about to be foreclosed upon for non-payment of property taxes. Beaten up by a nun, sung to by James Brown, and touched by God, Jake sees the light and seeks to put the band together for one last show — a charity benefit to save the orphanage.

Their journey takes them from James Brown to Aretha Franklin to Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker to Cab Calloway. The movie showcases the overwhelming talent of singers, musicians, and genres long out of vogue with popular musical tastes. Indeed, this movie is a vehicle for giving these performers a chance to shine — to bring their music back to the masses and ultimately into pop-culture immortality (to go along with their more prestigious musical immortality).

This film is guaranteed to make you tap your feet, laugh out loud, gasp as both a mall and and entire fleet of Chicago police cars are destroyed, and believe in the magical powers of an old cop car. Like I said, it’s a musical comedy action fantasy.

And it works.

Quite possibly John Landis’s best film
As much as I liked Animal House, Trading Places, Coming to America and Oscar(his most underrated I feel), The Blues Brothers is what I consider John Landis’s best. True the plot is pretty skimpy, but there is so much that compensates. The Blues Brothers is beautifully filmed, is confidently directed once again by John Landis and the script is very funny. Other than the delightful cameos from music legends such as Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway and James Brown, the Pinto scene with the fall from the sky and the spectacular car chase(ludicrous I know but spectacular too) with the massed forces of the law and order, a country and western band and a bunch of neo-Nazis, what makes The Blues Brothers is the music, it is absolutely brilliant, and the numbers it features in are particularly rousing. And then we have endearing performances from John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Carrie Fisher as well. In conclusion, people may argue that it is a mess plot wise, but I am past caring really with the music and performances as good as they are. 10/10 Bethany Cox

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 13 min (133 min), 2 hr 28 min (148 min) (extended) (USA)
Budget 27000000
Revenue 115229890
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy
Director John Landis
Writer Dan Aykroyd, John Landis
Actors John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway
Country United States
Awards 2 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 4-Track Stereo (magnetic prints), Mono (optical prints), DTS (DTS: X)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1 (negative ratio), 1.85 : 1 (theatrical ratio)
Camera Arriflex 35 IIC, Panavision Super Speed MKII and Ultra Speed MKII Lenses, Panavision Panaflex, Panavision Super Speed MKII and Ultra Speed MKII Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,650 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2020 remaster), Spherical
Printed Film Format 70 mm (UK release), D-Cinema (2012 re-release), 35 mm