For all its self-indulgent, pseudo-anarchist humour, the cult '80s road movie The Blues Brothers was an old-fashioned affair that followed in the footsteps of 1932 flick The Big Broadcast. Both were variety shows with a thinly-constructed plotline, involving the saving of an institution: an orphanage in the first, a radio station in the second. Spookily enough, Cab Calloway's rendition of Minnie The Moocher was the highlight of both films, made 48 years apart. But while that song will always stay fresh, the same thing cannot be said for the formula.
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