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LP. EXAMINER E5 June 20, 1980 New movies for the weekend i iii 1 -V-" -v rt'yx Sb i ny bc3 thrill seekers who pelt the brothers nonstop with beer bottles. The entire number is almost Inaudible from the shrill sound of breaking glass. Matter of fad, this movie Is so loud from its special effects that the music Is secondary. In the film, Cab Calloway gels an all too-brief moment to sing "Minnie the Mouther," and Kay Charles gets things warmed up bit on "Shake Your Tailfeathers." James Brown does fine as a minister who fires up his parishioners to the point where they dance and sing In a hypnotic trance, though I found the scene bard to enjoy since I kept thinking of Peoples Templa Henry Ulbson plays the leader of a Nai group, and Carrie Fisher plays Belushi's jilted girlfriend, an angry debutante who enjoys machine gunning people, in between using her flame thrower.

The Blui Brothers" reortedly cost million, not too far below Steven Spielberg's unfunny "1941." Inflation must be terrible, when you can't even buy a Joke for that kind of money. It's a very rough cut By John Stark vi ii in ii i ii ii- nai ii- nnn i Burt Reynolds knows how to make burglar Lesley-Anne Down feel at home In 'Rough Cut' URT REYNOLDS certainly has "Ihe shining." camera, his eyes yelling Help!" His boredom with "Rouuh Cut'' Is so blatant, you dnnl need KSP to get the meswme. Can't stop ogling the men By John Stark the supernatural ability to carry on conversa-tions with other people without opening his mouth just staring at them with his piercing eyes. In the opening sequence of "Hough Cut, you by a camera that seems to be in heat There's even a production number set in the YMCA. which incudes a romp through the shower room, where naked men blithely soap each other up (since when did frontal nudity get a I'li In the 1930s, original musicals capitalizing on popular tunes used to be written for ilio screen, with cinematic musical numlx'rs.

"Can't Stop the Musk1," which opens today at the Regency II, marks a return to that concept. Only Joan Dlondcll Is now wearing a hardhat, and Ruby Keeler's in an Indian war bonnet And Just as "forty next page From Page El his prisoners are victims of Injustice. They are, most of them, bad men who deserve to be punished, but who are entitled to humane surroundings. Redford ts quite good here; in fact, 1 rani ret-all seen him act better than in this plum of a role. Director Stuart Rosenberg Hand Luke," "Amity vllle Horror," The Laughing has done a clean, workmanlike, If slightly unimaginative, Job here.

My quarrel with the film is its occasional degeneration Into preachiness, preachlmss with a tinge of '60s radicalism. It's as though the film-makers dnnl want to be accused of naive liberalism, and feel compelled to shake a stick at the flaws of the compromisers and the reformist temperament. Shake a stick they should, but in a less blunt, didactic style. Blues Brothers short on soul By John Stark ABOUT HALFWAY through The Blues Brothers" the great Aretha Franklin, playing a waitress in a greasy spoon, starts to sing a composition she co-wrote entitled Think," while three women eating at the counter join in on the backup. For a few minutes the movie house rocks and trembles as Franklin and her group joyously wail, providing this Jackhammeron-asphalt movie wilh its only depth and soul 'The Blues Brothers," which opens today at the Coliseum, Serramonte and Geneva Drive-In, Is a sadistic musical, and not In the Joyous sense, as The Rocky Horror Picture Show." This vastly expensive migraine headache revels in destruction of property an entire shopping mall In one scene and raises the art of car crashing to a new pinnacle of vulgarity.

Director John La ml is, whose previous films were "Animal House" and "Kentucky Fried Movie" both very funny has now one-upped Stanley Kramer's "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" in the "hit-em-over-the-head" school of comedy. On screen, as well as in real life, The Blues Brothers are John Belushl and Dan Aykroyd of "Saturday Night Live" fame, who do their sinning sin irk dressed In black suits, black hats and dark sunglasses. The Blues Brothers are a popular novelty, and have a definite tongue-in-cheek appeal. But this film does nothing with the characters, except to portray them as a couple of onesided and unlikahle hoods. The thin plot concerns the efforts of Belushl and Aykroyd to raise $5,000 to pay the taxes, and thus save, the orphanage where they were reared.

In the film's beginning we meet Sister Mary Stigmata (Kathleen Freeman), who Instills the Blues Brothers with their mission. The brothers respond by talking dirty to her, so she beats the hell out of them. From here, the humor never gets any less subtle, just more expansive. Buildings are blown up, and car chase follows car chase, until your senses are numbed. In what might have been a funny, poignant scene, the brothers get a gig at a country-western nightclub.

To appease the crowd, they sing the theme from "Rawhide" and Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man." But director Landls meanly portrays the country folk as sadistic 1 ELCOME TO TIIE llfflOs seems to be the message of Tan't Stop the Music an urxlate on the mad, kaleidoscopic musicals that Busby Berkeley used to make. The film, starring the outrageous disco group, the Village People, certainly marks a first: a musical where men are Ihe dumb sex objects, ogled I KI i (i 1.1 liL1- -e-J ill 'mrr. ti can feel beautiful Lesley-Anne Down's awkardness as Reynolds stares at her across the room at a cocktail party, then stalks her, sizing her up and down, checking her over from head to foot Too bad Reynolds is such a prolific actor, suite his cinematic charisma is so often wasted in films like "Rough Cut," at the Royal and Spruce Drive-In. Though you may not figure It out from the title, the movie is about International diamond thieves. Mostly set in England, "Rough Cut" has a predictable plot and obvious twist, and features David Niven who else? as the Scotland Yard Inspector hot on Reynolds' trail.

Despite some witty quips from Reynolds, and some breathtaking scenery of Down, this is an undistinguished film that deserves a long run on coast-tocoast airplane flights. The director Is Don Siegel. v.ho had better luck with "Escape From Alacalraz," "Dirty Harry" and The Shootist." Throughout "Rough Cut," Reynolds kees looking into the "Make NLO ill i every effort to see it!" -Stanley Eichelbaum, 11 1 af i ll TONIGHT AT 8:30 Ii i J.t-:i,u.Mi.;ieiiK:i.ii KQED-TV 11 GALA OPENING TONIGHT! I "WichBdl. Willy, Delicious Musical Kl i aorgeous musical slaainas and dance." Kl June IB-27 I En ra DasI kf Do you have baby furniture to sell? Advertise in the Want Ad Supermarket Phone 777-7777 'i elegant and witty and mercilessly tunny." 1 EH Toronto Star hi I I ii Hi iitmtxm urn: Stt I e- A 1 1- 1,1 lilt flllt III MIIS .1 WHEN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VISIT NIVERSAL STUDIOS TOUR AN MCA COMPANY -Jump for Joy I They'll never get caught. They're on a mission from God.

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