Few "Saturday Night Live" castmembers have carved a greater niche in the show's history than Dan Aykroyd. His four years on the show gave us some of the most hilarious moments ever to grace our television screens. From his zany charatcers to his dead on impresions, Aykroyd was a force to be reckoned with.
On September 6th, 2005, "The Best Of Dan Aykroyd" was one of four new "SNL" dvds from the show's first five years released on dvd. It features 22 sketches and has a decent run time of 93 minutes. How does it hold up. Read on for the positives and the negatives.
Positives:
-You get most of Aykroyd's popular recurring characters on here. Beldar Conehead, Leonard Pinth Garnell, Elwood Blues and others are all on this dvd.
-They included the Nerds sketch... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Dan Aykroyd DVD Release Date: Released the 06 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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After building up the duo's popularity through recordings and several performances on Saturday Night Live, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd--as "legendary" Chicago blues brothers Jake and Elwood Blues--took their act to the big screen in this action-packed hit from 1980. As Jake and Elwood struggle to reunite their old band and save the Chicago orphanage where they were raised, they wreak enough good-natured havoc to attract the entire Cook County police force. The result is a big-budget stunt-fest on a scale rarely attempted before or since, including extended car chases that result in the wanton destruction of shopping malls and more police cars than you can count. Along the way there's plenty of music to punctuate the action, including performances by Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin,... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Dan Aykroyd - John Belushi - Cab Calloway - John Candy DVD Release Date: Released the 30 August 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This movie is another one of those too-busy pieces where it is difficult to keep track of who is whom and what, exactly, is going on. The writer tried to compress far too much detail in too little time, when he would have been better-advised to focus on a smaller time horizon with fewer characters. Nice stab at a period piece, and good enough to watch all the way through, but it just falls flat. More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Emily Mortimer - Stephen Campbell Moore - Dan Aykroyd Director(s): Stephen Fry DVD Release Date: Released the 08 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This enjoyable thriller, written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson (the screenwriter of Field of Dreams), follows a raggedy group of corporate security experts who get in over their heads when they accept an assignment poaching some hot hardware for the National Security Agency. Robert Redford plays the group's guru, an aging techno-anarchist who has been hiding from the feds since the early 1970s; his companionable gang of freaks includes Dan Aykroyd, David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell, the late River Phoenix, and Sidney Poitier, as a veteran CIA operative turned "sneaker." The technological black box that everybody is after, an array of computer chips that can decode any encrypted message, isn't a very plausible invention, but it's a serviceable McGuffin, and the megalomania of... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Robert Redford - Sidney Poitier - Dan Aykroyd Director(s): Phil Alden Robinson DVD Release Date: Released the 28 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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