Big lousy noisy cartoon musical which glories in its excess, pouring on the music numbers and car crashes with abandon. Actually in this CGI age its enjoyable to see some good old fashioned cars spinning around and crashing through malls and the music is of course superb. The one number I didn't feel worked was "Think" by Aretha Franklin - a terrific song but a bit of a downer number because she's trying to persuade her husband not to run off and join the band.
John Belushi outshines Dan Akyroyd but Aykroyd offers solid support and heck it was his passion that got the whole thing going. The cameos and short bits are a lot of fun: I liked the musos and also John Candy, Carrie Fisher, Steven Spielberg, Frank Oz, Henry Gibson, Charles Napier, and so on. It's silly but it has its own integrity which I think is one of the reasons why it's struck such a chord. That, and the fact that its so easy to dress up as Blues Brothers.
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