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The Blues Brothers (1980): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

7.9IMDb
72%Tomatometer
60Metacritic
7.7TMDB

The Blues Brothers is a 1980 musical, comedy, action film directed by John Landis. It scores 7.9 on IMDb, 72% on Rotten Tomatoes, 60 on Metacritic, 7.7 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 79 while Metacritic critics give it 60, a gap of 19 points in favor of audiences. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 5 of 58 films from 1980 in our catalog and number 81 of 3,051 comedy films.

Billed cast: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin.

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