What someone should have told you before you started the movie is that "everyone" in the movie, even with a small cameo part and a couple of the extras, is famous. All star cast. Even the guitar and bass player in the Blues Brothers band - Steve Cropper and Donal Duck Dunn from Booker T and the MGs. Chaka Khan was in the choir, Joe Walsh from The Eagles jumps on a table and dances in the final prison scene. And John Lee Hooker singing in the street scene. The leader of the Illinois Nazis was a famous comedian, Henry Gibson, from the television show Laugh In. And Cab Calloway from the Cotton Club!!! And Twiggy in the convertible sports car!! Most famous model from the 60s. And factually the biggest car chase scene ever in a movie.

I watched this movie with my daughter when she was about 14. After the James Brown scene she said "I want to go to a church like that!" and I said "Baby, everyone wants to go to a church like that"

I was 12 years old when in 1980 I kept nagging my parents to allow me to go see a movie because Princess Leia was in. They allowed me to go see it on my own... And from the very opening notes of Matt "Guitar" Murphy droning that A# and the section coming in The Blues Brothers changed my life. I took a hammer to m piggy bank that very night and bought the soundtrack the next day. I took up guitar lessons a week after and to this day 40 years later I'm still playing the blues. So thank Carrie Fisher for taking that role, without her I'd have become a square.

My personal favorite detail was how they were immune to damage or capture because they truly were on a "mission from God." Every single thing holds to that until it's no longer needed. Right up until the end, no enemy can catch or harm them. Their car doesn't give out until they're literally outside their destination to pay the $5,000, despite clearly pulling off impossible feats the entire movie. And the cuffs aren't put on them until a second after the payment receipt is stamped.

If anyone's interested, "Blue Lou" Marini (the fry cook) is alive and well and still killing it. I saw him a month ago playing for James Taylor. Incredible musician.

The singer who sang Minnie the Moocher was the legendary Cab Calloway III. Also, as much as I LOVE this movie, I get a little sad when I realize how many of the cast, the band and the cameos are no longer with us.

I’ve always loved the line,”We’ve got both kinds, Country and Western”😅

"This is car 55. We're in a truck." Best line in movie history ever.

John Belushi found all the original artists for each song they recorded for this and three albums and transferred all the profits and royalties to them. This movie revitalized a lot of thier careers and reawakened america to check out blues. It also created the chain of House of Blues music halls

One of the best films ever to see in a theater. Oh, Aretha. Seeing her in this movie was a shock. Her stage presence was always really big, with huge glittery outifts and big-ass hats. She was THERE on stage, so seeing here like this - no makeup, no costume, no HAT - singing in a dingy diner took some mental downsizing! But as soon as she started singing, WOW. The Queen Of Everything, Ever and Ever.

The movie's director, John Landis, said that he wanted to create a car chase that was "bigger and better" than anything that had been seen before. He also wanted to show the Blues Brothers as being "outlaws" who were willing to do whatever it took to get what they wanted. The car chase scene in "The Blues Brothers" is now considered to be one of the most iconic car chases in movie history.

Dan Akroyd loved the blues, and this movie was a love letter to all these musicians he respected deeply and thought deserved their flowers at a time when the US was in the midst of the metal backlash against the disco and R&B of the 70s. As everyone else has said, they're _all_ famous. The cameos in this movie are legendary. Everything about this movie is legendary. They _actually_ dropped a car out of the sky. They held the world record for most vehicles destroyed in a chase scene for a long time, too. This movie was my introduction to the blues, and the beginning of my love for it, and it is still, hands down, the best cheer up movie for a bad day in my book. Always happy to see new people enjoying it for the first time! And seriously, just go buy the whole soundtrack.

1. "She Caught the Katy" The Blues Brothers with lead vocals by Jake Blues 4:10 2. "Peter Gunn Theme" The Blues Brothers Band 3:46 3. "Gimme Some Lovin'" The Blues Brothers with lead vocals by Jake Blues 3:06 4. "Shake a Tail Feather" Ray Charles with the Blues Brothers (Jake and Elwood, backing vocals) 2:48 5. "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" The Blues Brothers (Jake Blues, lead vocals; Elwood Blues, harmonica and vocals) 3:21 6. "The Old Landmark" James Brown and the Rev. James Cleveland Choir (additional choir vocals by Chaka Khan credited in the film) 2:56 7. "Think" Aretha Franklin & the Blues Brothers with backing vocals by Brenda Corbett, Margaret Branch, Carolyn Franklin, Jake, and Elwood 3:13 8. "Theme from Rawhide" Elwood, Jake, and the Blues Brothers Band 2:37 9. "Minnie the Moocher" Cab Calloway with the Blues Brothers Band 3:23 10. "Sweet Home Chicago" The Blues Brothers with lead vocals by Jake Blues (dedicated to the musician Magic Sam) 7:48 11. "Jailhouse Rock" Jake Blues & the Blues Brothers (Over the closing credits in the film, verses are sung by James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and "crew")

This movie is a damn classic. This was back when SNL had the most talented comedians, and the fact that they got so many blues titans to cameo (and play main parts!) and sing and play just makes this movie such a fun experience. They don't make them like this anymore.

This movie will never get old. John is still missed so much. It was so sad losing him. No matter how many time you see it, it never gets old. The greats in this movie are amazing.

Also, the Blues Brothers Band is LEGIT made up of some very fine musicians. They aren’t just actors pretending to play. Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, Alan Rubin, Lou Marini …. Those guys are serious players for real. Highly respected in music circles.

The old man who performed Minnie the Moocher could legit be called a "OG" - he was one of the first people to do scat - Cab Calloway. He is so fundamental to so much modern music - he started in the 1920s. If Cab had not been around there never would been a Prince or a Micheal Jackson. Another neat fact - at the end of Cab's life, Micheal Jackson covered all his medical bills.

For non-motorheads......when an engine "throws a rod", it breaks a connecting rod. A connecting rod connects the piston to the crankshaft. The rod is usually sent sideways through the block, shooting out oil and sometimes coolant with it. They were running on 7 cylinders and losing oil. But, they were on a mission from god, so they made it.

John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd were phenomenal and Belush's talents were far beyond his time. These classic movies and actors will NEVER be DUPLICATED! Miss this unique entertainment.

The ultimate irony: blues music and country music have shared roots. One of the most successful blues songs ever, "Move Int On Over," was written by Hank Williams, one of the fathers of country music.

"I would pay to see this band!" As anyone should; that band was full of legends.

The "Theme to Rawhide" was the actual theme to the tv western classic (1959 to 1965) that made a star out of a very young Clint Eastwood.

These two started this act on Saturday Night Live. It was so popular that they branched out into this campy movie. There are mutiple cameos of famous people in this movie.

Magician/Stuntman Jonathan Pendragon did the backflips in the Church Service for John Bulushi.This movie is a wonderful historic record for future generations to see the greatest Blues Musicans of this era. Sadly, some are already gone but they will live forever through this movie.

This movie has one of my favorite lines ever. "How often does the train go by?" "So often you won't even notice it."

Forever grateful for the Minnie the Moocher sequence that showcases the legendary Cab Calloway in high fidelity but also having the phenomenal trumpet of Alan Rubin in this mix is another gem as well...The musicianship of the Blues Brothers is on full display in this film which is more than a comedy with Police car chases.

I was on my honeymoon in Eugene, Oregon at this beautiful hotel. We went down for dinner and they had a show and it was the Blues Brothers. They were testing out their act before they did it on SNL. So much fun.

So much reality in this - the mall was real (it was no longer open, but was a real mall), Maxwell Street was real (that market was shut down decades back, but the scene was accurate) - and shot without a permit. The prison is still standing, and is used in the Joliet minor league team's intros. This movie is as much a love letter to Chicago as to the blues and the musicians in the movie.

Fun fact: the officer in the opening scene that returns Jake’s property is none other than the great and powerful Frank Oz. Director of “Analize This” “The Score” and many others. He has cameos in all of John Landis’s movies. He is most famous as voice actor of several Muppet and Sesame Street characters as well as the voice of Yoda in Star Wars. There is a reference to Miss Piggy at a toy store. Frank Oz also does the voice of Miss Piggy

Dan Ackroyd and producer John Landis , kept blues alive with this film and kept guys in work as blues artists throughout the world through the 80s and into the 90s . That is the legacy of the film, they did it again in 2000 God bless um

The blues brothers have the number one selling blues album to this day. Briefcase full of blues. They also revitalized a bunch of classic artists that were forgotten. Amazing movie.

ALL of the musicians and singers in this movie are world class and legends in their area, style and instruments.

I can't think of any movie that does such a good job of low-key showcasing so many people that laid the foundation for American music the last 70 years or so. Just such a joy to watch.

The Blues Brothers, started by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, began as a SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE sketch, incorporating the SNL band, then lead by Paul Schaffer. After the success of ANIMAL HOUSE (1978), Universal was looking to capitalize on John Belushi and John Landis, and they came to them with THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980) written by Dan. The boys and the band were real musicians and great fans of the blues, and this was their way of giving back to the music and artist they loved by featuring them, and in some cases (Like Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway) reviving their careers. It was the most expensive comedy ever made, at its time, costing $22 million dollars, and holds the record for the most cars crashed in a film.

One of the best movies of all time if you're looking to laugh. Such a cast. Amazing soundtrack. Funny story! Thanks for watching and reacting to this one...

The bandleader in white was Cab Calloway - you reviewed his song “Jumpin’ Jive” with the amazing dancers The Nicholas Brothers from 1943’s Stormy Weather… so amazing! Oh, and the big blond guy with the cops was John Candy - a really great comedian in his own right.

Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING about this movie is genius. Arguably one of the best films in American cinema history

1980 was a great year, the year I graduated high school. “The Blues Brothers”, “Caddyshack”, and “Airplane!”

Chicago! Still has a drawbridge or two over the river. The Aretha Franklin diner scene is worth the price of admission. This all grew out of Dan and John's shared love of blues music, an SNL skit they created, and the rest is history. They toured as the Blues Brothers, and even put out an album. The heavy set guy is John Candy, not Jim Belushi, and the bandleader is Cab Calloway.

My favorite Dan Aykroyd quote is: "Some people say that going to college, and going on in life and doing something different than what one studied in college was a waste of your college years. Well, I studied Criminology, Sociology, Deviant Psychology, Abnormal Psychology and, uh, and then I went into show business." -Dan Aykroyd

The best musical comedy ever made. I don't know if it will EVER be possible again to bring together so so many musical superstars into one hilarious film. Enjoy it because you'll never see its like again

The street dancing while Ray Charles is singing highlights the point that in the 60s there was a new dance craze almost every week. You had to get to know each one as it came out so you could look cool showing it off on Friday and Saturday night at the dance hall. As for the magical car tricks, there was a deleted scene where Elwood is shown parking the car in a shed housing a big electrical transformer which is powering the elevated trains. The suggestion is that the car draws energy from the transformer which allows it to perform the unreal stunts.

I’m so glad to see that new people are watching this classic movie for so many reasons. The first SNL movie (when it actually was a good show with talented people on it), the comedy is gold, the music is actually done by real musicians (😮), etc. This was one of my dad’s favorites, and ages like wine

I was first introduced to Jake and Elwood by my late cousin around 1985 when I'd bought some replica B+L Wayfarers, she asked me "who'd you think you are? The Blues Brothers?". To this day, one of my favourite, go to, albums is "Briefcase Full Of Blues", not to mention this movie was the first time I heard many Blues classics - " Hold on, I'm comin'", "Can't turn you loose", and others. I think this movie held a long time record for the most cars destroyed in a movie.

Jay, the actor you thought was Jim Belushi was actually the fabulous John Candy! Another comedian we lost far too early. You guys will LOVE Planes, Trains and Automobiles. One of John Candy's best movies, though he had a number of great ones.

When Can Calloway first performed Minnie the Moocher (in 1931) he forgot the chorus, so he did The Hidee Hidee Ho bit. It went over so well, he just kept it in there

1. 'She Caught the Katy' - The Blues Brothers 2. 'Peter Gunn Theme' - The Blues Brothers Band 3. 'Gimme Some Lovin'' - The Blues Brothers 4. 'Shake a Tail Feather' - Ray Charles and the Blues Brothers 5. 'Everybody Needs Somebody to Love' - The Blues Brothers 6. 'The Old Landmark' - James Brown 7. 'Think' - Aretha Franklin and The Blues Brothers 8. 'Theme from Rawhide' - The Blues Brothers 9. 'Minnie the Moocher' - Cab Calloway and The Blues Brothers Band 10. 'Sweet Home Chicago' - The Blues Brothers 11. 'Jailhouse Rock' - The Blues Brothers (the film version has verses by James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and Cab Calloway) The film also had songs by Sam & Dave, Fats Domino, John Lee Hooker and Louis Jordan.

I took my wonderful parents to see this in 1980. They didn’t care for the profanity but they enjoyed everything else. When Belushi died they knew who he was, and knew how much it would affect me. I miss them. 😢💔

Thank You guys, for making me and my wife feel really OLD!! I'm 73 and she is 67, and we both were smiling and laughing at you two guys reactions. Priceless!!! Not knowing some, if not most of the Musicians/Stars. Being so young (to us you are young) and not knowing things that we just take for granted at our age was a great trip down memory lane. THANK YOU! LOVE you guys

I think I’ve watched this movie over a hundred times. It never gets old. Glad to see younger people enjoy it.

Dan Aykroyd was and still is a massive blues fan, and is friends with darned near everyone in the genre. When he and John Belushi were in Saturday Night Live, he'd play blues records and eventually, after meeting some other blues artists, John was hooked. Their first skit as blues singers had them dressed up in bee costumes. The Blues Brothers were more than just a fictional band; they toured together and recorded a number of albums. Dan is still a blues man, and up until 2018 he had a nationally syndicated radio program called Elwood's BluesMobile, which he recorded in character. He had all the blues greatest as guests, and sometimes featured up-and-coming new talent.

Steve Cropper was the A and R guy on and co writer of Dock of the Bay. He gave Ottis Redding his break. He was part of Booker T and the MGs

The backing band, Cropper, Murphy, Dunn, all those guys were in and out of the Memphis Horns and Booker T and the MGs. They were the session musicians on some of the most famous blues, soul, and R and B records for decades.

One of the (many) great things about this film is that it featured almost EVERY form of music; from rock, to blues, soul, county, classical and more - even elevator music!

As an Englishman this film was my education on rhythm & Blues music

Such a wonderfully funny movie. Jay's reaction to Carrie Fisher being in the movie was PRICELESS!!! I first saw this at Princeton University hosted by a student organization. This movie has too many favorite bits to recount, but from the moment the Penguin floated back into her office I was hooked. The church scene where you see all those people fanning themselves, brings back memories before many churches could afford central air conditioning. We had those fans in the pews, often with advertisements on them (mostly funeral parlors). And I love Aretha Franklin's response to the "we're on a mission from God" statement. She yells, "Don't you blaspheme in here! DON'T you BLASPHEME!" Watching this with y'all, so many lines from this movie show up in my conversation. Something on TV mentioned "country music" and I immediately said, "We've go both kinds: Country AND Western." One of the most unexpected funny moments was after they took off from Bob's bar and the real "Good Old Boys" get into Bob's truck in pursuit of the Blues Brothers. If you look closely you can see the eyes of some "Good Old Boys" in the bed section of the camper on back of Bob's pickup. I saw that and burst out laughing so hard I was crying. For that to really happen, the guys would have to be standing up, leaning into the window.

Yes! This was THE hot summer movie! I lived in Joliet at the time and for years afterwards you could see stacks of trashed cop cars at a salvage yard on I-55. My sophomore English teacher was an extra - he played a soldier. Love this film, so much awesomeness.

I love it when the younger generation discovers classic gold like this.

The little kid reaching for the guitar is De'voreaux White who would later play Argyle in Die Hard, the character that drives the limo with Bruce Willis around.

The actor checking Jake out of jail at 2 minutes and 10 seconds (bald head and mustache) is Frank Oz. The creator of Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and many more muppets.

Steve Cropper was the dude who wrote “Knock on Wood” and “Midnight Hour” and co-wrote “Soul Man” and “Sitting at the Dock of the Bay”. Pure royalty here.

I know every line, every scene every song and every dance move. I still do the dances to this day since I first saw it on the big screen.

an absolute all star cast when it comes to blues and soul music. I grew up on this and have watched it hundreds of times.

This was the first movie out of the SNL crew Most of the band was from the show and it's one of the best movies ever

"Orange Whip? Orange whip? Three Orange Whips!" - John Candy

The church scene is exactly as I remember it when I was growing up. My eldest sister was one of the nurses always present in case the Holy Ghost entered someone's body. This was back in the day when you went to Sunday School/Church on Sunday and Bible Study every Wednesday night. The church also prepared free lunches for kids during the summer. Man, I miss those days.😔

21:45 --- I miss that sound.. Big V 8 engines sucking a whole room full of air when you nailed the throttle and all four barrels opened wide...🔧

Some great musicians and blues singers in this movie. These were actual musicians

The Blues Brothers was a top notch band with Jake and Elwood fronting. They started as a skit on Saturday Night Live, back when it was worth watching. And they just grew from there. They had a massive album they put out, Briefcase Full of Blues which i had and loved.

I saw the Blues Brothers in concert August 1, 1980 while on vacation in CA. Just by luck the concierge at our hotel had 2 tickets and couldn’t go and sold them to us at face value. Since March of 1969, 9 days before my 13 birthday, I have been to 191 concerts from every genre, and their show was by far the most entertaining and memorable. Their interaction with the audience and one another was spot on. In character the entire show. John really did cartwheels. And Dan really can play the harmonica that well.

Louis Jordan did "Let the Good times roll" he was a real pioneer of blues, older rhythm and blues, jazz, and what would become soul, and early rock and roll.

This movie was actually super important at reintroducing classic blues and R&B artists to the world. In 1980, most of the artists who got cameos in this film were really brought back to pop culture after a decade or more of being forgotten.

Gotta love that Steven Spielberg cameo at the end. I absolutely love this film.

Jake: "How often do the trains come by?" Elwood: "So often you won't even notice."

One of the greatest all round films ever made. It should be required viewing at least once in your life.

This movie was credited with helping kick start the blues revival - and that led to a lot of the music being put on CDs when they became available years later. The Blues Brothers survived all those car chases because they were On a Mission from God. That's why the Bluesmobile didn't die until they no longer needed it. You can find the soundtrack on YT.

I cannot ever pass this movie by when channel surfing…no matter where in the movie it is! Love it! My Cousin Vinnie references come up in conversations all the time. Glad you got to react to it💜💫

⭐John Candy rose to international fame with his roles in comedic films such as Stripes, Splash, Brewster's Millions, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Spaceballs, The Great Outdoors, Uncle Buck, and Cool Runnings.

So much talent in this movie. The Blues Brothers Band is essentially the musicians at Staxx records, part of Booker T and the MG's, that played in hundreds of hit records. And indeed you recognized some great stars, Cab Calloway is from a different generation, but i love his Minnie the Moocher.

The song at 10:41 is “Sooth me” by Sam and Dave fallowed by “Hold on! I’m a comin’” (one of my favorite songs), also by Sam and Dave. 16:35 is “Let the good times roll” by Louis Jordan. 22:15 “Boom Boom” actually performed by John Lee Hooker. 26:36 “Boogie Chillen” also by John Lee Hooker. 28:02 “Your cheatin’ heart” by Kitty Wells. 34:03 “I’m walkin’” by Fats Domino.

My mom came home one day and pulled out the full blues brother album. I was in awe because the vinyl itself was brand new. The plastic wrapper was still on it. The record itself is an electric blue. I didn’t ask her how she found it and I still don’t question it. I’m just glad we have it in our house.

One of the great movies, watched this classic at the drive-in in 1982 and I've seen it 100 times since then

It's so ironic that I'm watching this today. This movie was one of my husband's favorites and today is his birthday. Unfortunately I lost him two years ago so this is bittersweet. That being said thank you for this reaction, it's made today a tiny bit easier. I am so glad you guys do this together and I think you have a beautiful family.

Being a Chicago native I've seen pretty much every location in this movie in person. I was a youngster when this came out, like 9. My mom was a huge fan of the Blues Brothers from Saturday Night Live, which is where they started as a skit and she took me to see this movie at least a dozen or more times and we also had the soundtrack on record and 8-Track, lol.

This is my favorite over 20 years. Top musicians of the century+mass car destructions+ Princess Lea... What can you want more ^^ Thanks for sharing this!!!

In the end prison scene, right after Joe Walsh is seen for the second time dancing on the table, the great Blues guitarist Buddy Guy can be seen dancing.

They also sang the ultimate country song Stand By Your Man by 70’s Country Superstar Tammy Wynette she’s mostly known to sing with another country superstar George Jones

Rawhide TV series 1959..... early role for Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates

Hell of a sound track to one hell of a movie. The band and half the side characters were the top flight Blues and Soul musicians of the day.

My favorite movie of all time. I actually remember seeing it as a kid at the drive-in. So much fun to see you both enjoy it so much!

Forget everything else, Cab Calloway getting to perform "Minnie the Moocher" once more in his old age was the true gift this movie gave to us. Aretha was starting her rise. Ray Charles had just peaked. But this was Cab's last great chance to show us what he was all about. "Their demeanor is just so funny to me, that's why I like it." Yeah. The whole "Blues Brothers" thing originally started as a musical skit on Saturday Night Live from the very first season, and somehow it was both funny and awesome at the same time, so it worked somehow. Yeah, there's a lot of us who would have paid to see the Blues Brothers in concerts. But that's not a thing for any amount of money.

This, without me knowing, was my favorite musical growing up. I thought it was a car chase movie, but when I got older I realized I was wrong. The old bluesman playing in the street was John Lee Hooker, the woman in the restaurant was Aretha Franklin & the older gentleman that looked like he might be the third Blues brother was Cab Calloway. This movie, while not the best ever, is a classic. Which is hard to do.

This movie was so big in my younger years that my friends and I did the Blues Brothers "Soul Man" for our school air guitar. I was also with a group of friends that did USA for Africa's "We Are The World". They were by far the best performances in the entire show. Fun times.

The blues brothers was a blues Band that Belushi and Akroyd dreamed up, and they were a surprise musical guest on SNL. The ended up getting a movie. That's why this movie is like an SNL sketch.

Hey... just in case no one has told you this today: I love what ya'all do and the pure goodness you spread! You two are truly giving this world something it needs. ☮

Being born in Chicago and raised in the 1980s, this movie is so much of my identity. I know the dialogue and every song by heart! And a star you might have missed. Frank Oz (the inventory guy in jail) is Yoda in Star Wars 5 and 6.

Glad you guys loved it. It is one of my favorite movies of all time.

I have no idea how many times I've seen this movie! it is so good just for the soundtrack alone and at one point it held the record for the most crashed cars in a movie. I don't know if that still holds true but the sequel is worth a look as well for another great soundtrack

It's too bad we lost John Belushi at such a young age. He was a star on the original Saturday Night Live program that started in the mid-1970s. One other movie that I loved him in was a Steven Spielberg film called "1941." It made me laugh so much I was almost in pain at the end of the movie. Unfortunately, 1941 was considered to be a flop and it's rarely shown - but I LOVED it!

This band is so tight, all legendary musicians,and the cameos are great.