The
Blues Brothers is in my Top One Hundred favorite
movies of all time. While it never won an Oscar, it remains a cinematic
treasure to moviegoers everywhere. The magical team chemistry of Dan Aykroyd
and John Belushi is at its brightest. They would later
team up to do Neighbors, which didn’t capture the same magic. It could be that
in The Blues Brothers, Dan Aykroyd
and John Landis joined forces to write the script, or that John Landis was
definitely on top of his directorial game. But I’d like to think it was an even
larger group effort. The music of The
Blues Brothers and the exceptional performances of the musicians explode
across the screen. The entire film feels like a celebration of sound and life.
The villains of the movie are those that go against sound and life. And we know
from the get-go that they don’t stand a chance to hamper the boys who “are on a
Mission from God.”