The Blues Brothers

“The film also has stunning car chases, choreographed like the dancing in a musical, as the Blues Brothers are pursued throughout Chicago, at one point even tearing through a shopping mall, in their 'Bluesmobile', a retired 1974 Mount Prospect, Illinois Dodge Monaco patrol car.”

Martin Chilton, The Telegraph · 100

“An exceptional comedy...Car wrecks and blues-related music galore in the best movie ever made in Chicago. [11 July 1980, p.3-8]”

Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune · 100

“The stunts are still awe-inspiring, and there's plenty of laughs. They really were thinking big.”

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian · 80

“And then, of course, there was the music, better music than any film had had for many years.”

Kim Newman, Empire · 80

“What's a little startling about this movie is that all of this works. The Blues Brothers cost untold millions of dollars and kept threatening to grow completely out of control. But director John Landis (of “Animal House”) has somehow pulled it together, with a good deal of help from the strongly defined personalities of the title characters. Belushi and Aykroyd come over as hard-boiled city guys, total cynics with a world-view of sublime simplicity, and that all fits perfectly with the movie's other parts. There's even room, in the midst of the carnage and mayhem, for a surprising amount of grace, humor, and whimsy.”

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times · 75