1980 · comedy · action · musical
The Blues Brothers
Directed by John Landis2h 13m1980
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
Our read: The Blues Brothers (1980) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · action · musical entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Cosy, breathless, measured comedy / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- funny
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