The Blues Brothers (1980) "Extended" Movie Reaction | Our FIRST TIME WATCHING | Insane car chase! 

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Fun fact: the kid trying to steal the guitar from Ray’s music shop is the same actor who plays Argyle the limo driver in Die Hard.

One of the funniest musical action comedy movies ever made. RIP, John Belushi, Carrie Fisher, John Candy, Henry Gibson, Cab Galloway, James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Alan Rubin, Matt Murphy, Donald Dunn, Kathleen Freeman, and Charles Napier. We miss you. You made this film a fun ride.

“We’re on a mission from God!” One of the best movies of all time.

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.

Belushi and Aykroyd DID do great things together. The “Blues Brothers” got their start on Saturday Night Live as a skit. It was so popular they took it on the road and even recorded several albums. ‘Rubber Biscuit” was one of their hits. Aykroyd said he wanted to do this movie and get as many old time blues musicians as he could in it before they passed. Just to remind folks just how awesome they were. Cheers

When Cab Calloway transforms the stage during Minnie The Moocher (one of his signature songs back in his day) it represents when music plays, magic happens. We see it whenever people start dancing

Someone may have mentioned it but the mall they filmed the chase scene in had already permanently closed and the production crew actually put most of the stores together just to shoot that scene. It was called the Dixie Square Mall.

This skit was such a big hit on Saturday night Live with real musicians and the guys actually singing that they made the movie and went on tour!

"I'm sure there are other famous singers in this movie, but so far I've only recognized James Brown" while the Queen Aretha Franklin is singing ... that made me want to cry.

Cab Calloway ( the guy just after the Nun scene) was a big band leader from the 30"s/40/50's era. He'd be a band you would see in the old detective movies when they ended up at a night club.

The sheer musical talent and comedic talent in this movie make it a 1 in a million.

In the 90’s my preteen kids saw a skit of this at a baseball game and asked about it. So we went and rented a copy of the movie and watched it. The kids loved the whole thing especially picking out actors they knew and asking about the ones they didn’t. My oldest daughter, who is now in her thirties, will still sometimes start going “Hut, Hut, Hut,” when she’s doing something and doesn’t know she’s being watched.

That ain’t Chicago in the beginning. That Statesville prison in Joliet. It is closed now, but they use it events. My dad worked there when I was a kid.

The "Pull Over" joke was so cheesy but Vanessa's reaction had me DYING with laughter. 😂😂😂

That's the blues legend, John Lee Hooker, going into the diner scene. The lady Elwood hits on was a famous model at the time, Twiggy.

One of my favourite movies as a kid. My parents are big blues fans and I have some fond memories of them introducing me to this movie and all the great musicians in it. I literally destroyed the ost record by playing it too much. As an adult I'm mostly amazed at the sheer amount of vehicular destruction that takes place. :P It was fun reliving it with you guys!

The shorter of the two guards escorting Jake across the Collins Street prison (yes, I am a Joliet native-that prison is one of several in town, so we distinguish it with its address) is played by the Jesuit priest who was my drama professor at Marquette University several years later. “Gerald Walling, S.J.” is directly above “John Belushi” in the final credits.

Another fun fact: The police dispatcher who says the use of unnecessary violence has been approved is the gangster from the black and white movie Kevin is watching in Home Alone. They also really were going close to 120 mph through downtown Chicago too. John Landis thought people would notice if they filmed it slower and sped the film up So he just did it for real.

It held the record for the longest car chase, most cars used and most cars destroyed for YEARS. And remember all real stunts, no CGI!!

The blues bros dance in the middle - not the beginning and not the end - but the middle section of the dinner scene, never fails to bring a smile to my face….as does Chaka Khan

"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses." "Hit it." Fun Fact: The line "They broke my watch!" occurs three times in the film, each time spoken or voiced over by a policeman on the losing end of a car chase with the Blues Brothers. Music Enthusiast Fact: Some performers were not used to lip-syncing pre-recorded songs, standard procedure for movie musicals. James Brown ended up singing his number live with a recorded backing (the rest of his choir was lip-syncing). John Lee Hooker's performance was recorded live at Chicago's Maxwell Street Market. Aretha Franklin's performance is cut together from many, many takes, using the parts where her lip-syncing was actually in sync. Automobile Enthusiast Fact: The Bluesmobile is a 1974 Dodge Monaco. The vehicles used in the film were used police cars purchased from the California Highway Patrol, and featured the "cop tires, cop suspension, and cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant" mentioned by Elwood in the film. A total of twelve Bluesmobiles were used in the movie, including one that was built just so it could fall apart. Several replicas have been built by collectors, but one original is known to exist, and is owned by the brother-in-law of Dan Aykroyd. Dodge Monacos from 1974-77, including the upscale Royal Monaco, especially those which came with the A38 police option, are now considered collector's items. They have been used as replica Chicago P.D. and Illinois State Police cars, including Bluesmobile tribute cars. This has led to the scarcity of this generation of Mopar C-bodies, leading some replica squad cars and Bluesmobiles to use the Plymouth Gran Fury or Chrysler Newport instead. Universal Studios Hollywood has a replica Bluesmobile on the lot; it's a 1974 Dodge Coronet, since the Monaco has become so rare. A world record 103 cars were wrecked during filming. The Junkman (1982) broke the record 2 years later, wrecking 150 cars and a plane. That record was held for 2 decades, until over 300 cars were wrecked during the filming of The Matrix Reloaded (2003).

"Fast and Furious ain't got shit on the Blues Brothers!" TRUTH!

Thanks for a fun reaction! There are three cameos that are usually missed by younger reactors. One was already brought up: Joe Walsh was the prisoner who jumped on the table and started dancing at the end. The other two are: Chaka Khan as the choir singer they focus on a couple of times in the James Brown church scene, and I'm pretty sure that's Harold Ramis in an uncredited non-speaking cameo when all the cops and soldiers rush in to the state building and ask the two guards if they've seen two guys dressed in black.

One of the lines I recite, when someone asks what music I am going to play. "Oh I got both kinds, I got Country and Western".

There's a small comedic irony in the relative characters of Kathleen Freeman - the "penguin" and Jake. In this film she's a nun shocked at his use of obscenities, but in "Dragnet" the roles are reversed. He's the uptight Sgt. Friday threatening to cite her - a foul-mouthed witness - for repeatedly swearing at him. Pier 1 went bankrupt and all stores were closed by the end of 2020. The mall itself was shuttered but redressed just for the film then abandoned.

Great review and great channel. It's comforting to see people who genuinely know what what they are talking about regarding pop culture. You are both clearly big fans. Fun Fact - The young boy that tried to steal the guitar from Ray's is Argyle from Die Hard.

You got my Cheez Whiz, boy? 😂 Thank you for watching this classic. Old fans like me often have trouble with the sequel Blues Brothers 2000, but I really enjoyed it. More amazing music fills it. Have you watched Joe vs the Volcano yet? I think hbomax has it streaming. I think y'all would love it! Tom Hanks in his earlier days.

Me & my brothers grew up watching this film. Adore it so much.

a true "timeless" classic as it STILL holds up 40+ years later.

Saw this as a teenager and I remember thinking in that Soul Cafe scene "Wow that woman can really sing!". 🙂

Tom Huff is the stunt driver that did all Elwood’s driving stunts.

One of the absolute classics. I saw the beeped-for-TV version of this as a very young child, since my musician parents consider this “music history”. It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World is a great comparison!

Blues Brothers was a tribute to the Blues which was dying down and almost forgotten in the late 70's. This movie help revitalize the music we called The Blues...Blues, Jazz and Rock and Roll produced the Rhythm and Blues gender of music which lead to Soul which lead to Funk which lead the mess we call Hip Hop ( music without musicians or singers)...

Who wants an orange whip?

The actor who played the kid who tried to steal from Ray's, is the same guy who played the limo driver in Die Hard.

The Guy that played Curtis in this movie was legendary musician Cab Calloway

Such a great movie with so many great talented people!! Definitely a mood lifter. 💗💗

The Blues Brothers "theme song" is actually a combination of 2 classic soul songs. "Time is tight" by Booker T & The MG's and "I can't turn you loose" by Otis Redding.

John Lee Hooker was playing the blues guitar outside of Ray’s music shop

Robert: If you're going to shoot in a prison, use it. Also Robert: No wonder it's 2.5 hours, it's taking forever to walk through the prison.😂 Vanessa: Next they'll be jumping over rooftops. Movie: 😎

The song everyone thinks of as the 'Blues Brothers Theme' (the one you sing a bit of at 1:57) is actually a slightly upbeat instrumental version of a song by Otis Redding called "I Can't Turn You Loose" (Johnny Winter also does a great version of the song as well)

It’s 250 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it!

Good thing you never got a Blues Brothers question on Schmoedown then! 😂 I love this film so much. "Hey... we're in a truck!"

"We're in a truck!" My favorite delivery of any of John Candy's lines.

They dropped the Pinto wagon from the bottom of a helicopter from 2,600 feet up. Since it's not normally done, the FAA had to do a 'test' to see if the Pinto would drop roughly where it was supposed to. So, they actually dropped two; one for the 'test', and the actual filmed version. The Ford Pinto is the only automobile in history to have its own Airworthiness Report done by the FAA.

The Blues Brothers has to hold the record for most cars wrecked in a movie. A then record 103 cars were destroyed.

Well this was a fun reaction to watch after a shitty week at work. Glad the two of you enjoyed the film. I have my dad to thank for introducing me to it, one of my all time favourites.

I'll never forget the first time I saw Blues Brothers. It was a sunny afternoon and I was walking around town and needed to kill some time. So I decided to go to the movies. I saw the title of the movie and was captivated because I was very into blues and funk at the time. I was excited about the artists in this movie and had to laugh my ass off at the comedy scenes. How cool was that. I missed every other joke because I was laughing so hard. Afterwards I told my friends about this movie and no one would believe me that there was a movie with Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles and James Brown and more together. A few days later, we went to the movies together again to prove that I wasn't a liar or an idiot. I can't even count how many times I've seen that movie since then. It is one of my all-time favorite movies and is one of my personal top five films.

Best reaction video to one of my favorite movies. Funny, great cast, great music and the most cop cars ever destroyed in a movie!

One of my favorite films of all times. Fun fact, this movie was in the Guinness book for largest car crash in a movie, a record it held until Blues Brothers 2000.

Thanks very much for the reaction. Some trivia: The Ray Charles outside dance was done in freezing weather, but people made it look like summer. The car was supposed to have magical properties due to a large magnet above the garage. Dan Aykroyd wrote a very long screenplay, but it was edited down a lot by Landis. The Blues Brothers was a musical skit on Saturday Night Live in the 1970's. This is Aykroyd's backstory for the band. Paul Schaffer was the band leader on SNL but couldn't be in this movie. The stunt crew leaders had to prove the Ford Pinto was airworthy and wouldn't sail in the wrong direction before they dropped it.

not sure if this has already been commented or not... but the Mall they were driving through was slated to be demolished and the production company asked if they could delay the destruction so they could film that scene... the "clean up" was a blasting crew fins finishing off what Jake and Elwood started!!! hahahaha

The guy in the steam room was Steve Lawrence of the Steve Lawrence and Edie Gourmet duo.

The nun always makes me think about my husband's stories of Catholic school. There was an Irish nun named Sister Rosario who was not to be trifled with

Chatting with someone you just met, and they casually mention they were in the movie business: "Remember THE BLUES BROTHERS? And that scene where they drove through the mall? Well I cleaned that up."

This movie was essentially a love letter to the rhythm and blues community in Chicago in the 70's (60's, too). Cab Calloway. Matt Guitar Murphy. Donald Duck Dunn. John Lee Hooker. Aretha. James Brown. Ray Charles... the movie was soooo full of musical and acting mega-stars that you see someone new every few minutes. It just goes on and on and on. Just a hoot and probably my favorite movie soundtrack of all time! Thanks for doing this one...

In 1980, Carrie was briefly engaged to Canadian actor and comedian Dan Aykroyd, who proposed to her on the set of their film The Blues Brothers. She said: "We had rings, we got blood tests, the whole shot. But then I got back together with Paul Simon."

I remember when they filmed the sequence when the Blue's Brothers almost drove all the expressway. That shot was on the expressway under construction just south of downtown Milwaukee, WI.

I saw it when it first came out in the theater, it was a RIOT the audience was really into it

I watched them film that bridge scene when the car back flips and the Nazi's drive off the bridge. That scene was filmed here in Milwaukee. At the time, construction of the Hoan Bridge access ramps hadn't been completed and was actually stalled for a while. Landis wanted to use our bridge to nowhere for the scene. Aykroyd and Belushi weren't here though, only the stunt crews. Still fun to watch. Took a bunch of pics. The white building in the background as the Bluesmobile flips at the time was the First Wisconsin Center, named for the bank on the first floor. Today the building is called the US Bank building and all the ramps to the Hoan have long been completed. Saw this in the theaters almost 20 times when first released and well over a hundred by now.

You have no idea how awesome this movie was in 1980 FYI Donald Duck Dunn was a amazing bass player rest of band were all super talented

Curtis is played by legendary blues singer Cab Calloway.

The last I’ve heard this is the biggest selling blues album of all time 🎉

I love watching people discover this movie for the first time! It is a classic - than you for sharing this!

Just so you know: pretty much EVERYBODY that Jake & Elwood interact with - who isn't Carrie Fisher, or an Illinois Nazi, or the Good Ol' Boys band, or a cop - is a MUSIC LEGEND! Either they are headliners in their own right, or they're some of the best studio musicians ever...and that includes the Blues Brothers' Band, too.

Carry Fisher needs to do a proper BDA, battle damage assessment.

I always feel old when I see a reactor who doesn't recognize any of the musicians in this movie. Good thing they list them at the end. You already recognized some of the non-musician cameos, like Frank Oz and Paul Reubens. The woman in the gas station was 60s supermodel Twiggy and the guy in the sauna was Steve Lawrence. All of the band were well known session musicians at the time- Matt "guitar" Murphy, Donald "duck" Dunn, etc. They've all played with the who's who of rock and blues musicians. The mall chase scene was, at the time, the most expensive scene ever filmed. They found an abandoned mall and fixed it up and filled it with stores, then proceeded to destroy it. And, only because you brought up the French Connection chase scene, I heard that was done without permits. They just set up their cameras and filmed, then left before the cops showed up, so all the "extras" you see are real people.

Bullet, Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper, The Hunter, Speed Zone, Cannonball Run…. Great movies with great stunts and car chases..

In the sequel, it becomes Bob's Country....Kitchen.

21:41 I like how Ray Charles doesn't care that he's blind. He'll just fire a live gun anywhere (over the heads of a room full of guests).

Favorite line from this movie, being a musician: "What kind of music do you usuaully have here?" "We got [both] country and western..."

This movie is close to my heart because of the nostalgia factor. I was born and raised in Chicago, and I can call out pretty much all of the locations, especially the downtown ones that you can barely see due to them speeding through the Loop.

All of the Blues Brothers albums are great, not just the soundtrack. I listened to them all through college.

The Great Cab Calloway is in this . That line " Get Me My Cheese Whiz Boy ? " Is not only famous from this movie , but used in Family Guy 🧀😂🤣.

This movie actually held the Guinness Book Of World Records record for most cars destroyed in a film. Not sure if it still stands today or not tho

I found out recently Henry Gibson is not his birth name; it is a pun on playwright Henryk Ibsen.

Dan Aykroyd actually proposed to Carrie Fisher when they were making this movie, and she said yes. They were briefly engaged then called it off and broke up.

Saw the Blues Brothers at Red Rocks in CO. Briefcase Full of Blues. I didn’t realize at the time I was watching history.

The mall chase scene was filmed in one of the most infamous dead malls ever, Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois. It was pretty much a dead mall at the time and was being rented by the Harvey School district when the movie was made. The mall sat abandoned, decaying, and partially burned for over 30 years after the movie was filmed before finally being demolished.

I saw this on its opening Friday, and is one of the most memorable nights of my life. A friend and I had driven from Portland to Seattle to compete in the Friday night bicycle races at the velodrome, but they got rained out. So we headed downtown looking for something to do. We saw the marquee at the Coliseum Theater, and got in just in time. The theater was packed and raucous. We had a great time. It was a few years before I became a real blues fan and understood just how important all those musicians were. The Blue Brothers set me off on my blues journey. My first blues concert was John Lee Hooker. Sadly I never got to see Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Ray Charles or any of those other legends, but I have seen BB King, Etta James, Albert Collins, Pinetop Perkins, Charles Brown and many others.

The driving through the shopping centre scene was shot TWICE, you can see the skid marks as they drive around. The shopping centre was disused and they restocked it and smashed it up twice. It was the most expensive comedy film ever at the time.

That one scene during the car chase through chicago when they drive by, that speed was insanely fast! No fast forward effect, real driven high speed!

39:51 “next they’ll be flying off rooftops” Knowing what’s going to happen to the Nazi made this so funny

I was 10 when they were filming in Chicago. My Moms office was right above the shots in the cheap hotel. FYI this was the very first movie to ever be filmed in Chicago.

2 fun facts, the police army at the end were actually cops volunteering to help out. And on the day they shot the plaza scene at the end, Carrie fisher and John belushi were getting high as a kite in his trailer, only to find out as they left the trailer that there were hundreds of cops on set that day

I really enjoy this movie thank you so much for reacting to it. Plus what most people don't realize to later is it John Landis actually slug in a loving tribute to many of the icons of rhythm and blues music Without people realize it. Because many of the icons in this including Cab Calloway, Johnny Lee Hooker.Ray Charles, James Brown, and Areatha Franklin are all gone now. This one of the only vehicles to see them perform for future generations.

The Blues Brothers were originally a skit on Saturday Night Live. It was so popular they turned it into an actual act.

the elevator music is s song called Girl From Ipanema. They actually used to play the very same kind of music over the PA at Wal-Mart in the early 1980’s .

I think the rest of the band being in the sauna with them is my favorite gag in this film.

Awesome. One of my fav movies. If anyone wants to see Blues Brothers movie reactions while they wait, Oktokrool YT Channel just released their reaction to it about 24 hours ago and it was a great watch.

This is the best movie ever, seen it 100+ times easily, it's perfect...could never, ever get away with the scope of these stunts now, they legit crashed 110 cars

The actor Steven Williams plays Trooper Mount, Leroy Hanlon in the remake of It, Creighton Duke in Jason Goes To Hell, Captain Adam Fuller on the 21 Jump Street Tv Series

The girl at the gas station is Twiggy and the first prisoner to jump up when they are performing at the end is Joe Walsh from the Eagles. Also this movie held/holds the record for most vehicles wrecked in a movie

For 2 years, this movie had the record for most cars trashed in a movie at 104 cars. Amazingly, no one was apparently injured filming the climatic chase scene, although Belushi did injure himself riding a kid's skateboard just before filming the concert! The record was broken by The Junkman which destroyed 150 cars and a plane 2 years later. The record is currently held by Transformers 3 at 532 cars (coincidentally also filmed in Chicago)

Also the lady that Elwood talks to in the car when he fills up her car with gas; is an old celebrity her name was Twiggy. English actress. she was a little before our time.

I saw the Blues Brothers live at the Universal Amphitheater back in the late '70s early '80s. They were the opening act for Steve Martin in his "Wild and Crazy Guy" tour. Pretty much all the guys you see in the movie were up on stage with them.

Some of the best stuntmen in the world worked on the Blues Brothers. The Warbabies was the name of the main team run by Gary Mc Larry. The Whiz.

Did you notice Carrie Fisher's salon name? Curl up and Dye 😂

Who is that guy? It's friggin Cab Callaway!