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It's hard to ignore the sad and conspicuous absence of the late John Belushi, but this long-delayed sequel to 1980'sThe Blues Brothersstill has Dan Aykroyd--as Chicago bad boy and blues rocker Elwood Blues--to keep the music alive. Once again, Elwood's trying to reunite the original Blues Brothers Band, and this time he's got a strip-joint bartender (John Goodman) and a 10-year-old orphan named Buster (J. Evan Bonifant) joining him at center stage. Believing that Elwood has kidnapped the kid, the cops are hot on his trail as the reunited band hits the road for the Battle of the Bands in Louisiana and the All-Star Blues Jam that ends the movie in a rockin' blaze of glory. It's a shameless clone of the first film, and nobody--especially not Aykroyd or director John Landis--seems to care that the story's not nearly as fun as the music that's used to stretch it out. Of course there's a seemingly endless parade of stunts, including a nonstop pileup of police cars that's hilariously absurd, but what really matters here--indeed, the movie's only saving grace--is the great lineup of legendary blues musicians. Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Junior Wells, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Jonny Lang, Eddie Floyd, and Blues Traveler are among the many special guests assembled for the film, and their stellar presence makes you wonder if the revived Blues Brothers shouldn't remain an obscure opening act. The collector's edition DVD includes production photos, the theatrical trailers, and a behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of the film including interviews with the principal cast.--Jeff Shannon
Terrible movie, great music Blues Brothers is considered one of the Great American Movies - it reintroduced one of America's original music styles to a new generation in the context of a hilarious movie. But Blues Brothers 2000? Well, the replacements for John Belushi fall very short. The plot is awful. The story doesn't hold together.
The one thing going for it is the amount of musicians introduced. If the original movie brought 8 or 9 musicians to mass appeal, this introduced 15. Unfortunately, it was all in a monster jam at the end.
You're better off just buying the sound track.
Bad script......great music I found the movie to be funny in spots but its carried by the musical scenes and the story is way too derivative and thin.
John Goodman is good in it but he doesn't make you forget Belushi and thats no knock on Goodman because who CAN make you forget that guy.
The climax of the film is both terrible and awesome and kind of a microcosm of the whole film. The climax features Erica Badou turning the Blues Brothers into singing green zombies and then literally changing the antagonist mob family and white supremicist group into rats but at the same time it features an unbelievable all star band with Steve Winwood , Billy Preston , Isaac Hayes , Lou Rawls , BB King , Bo Diddley , Clarence Clemons , Eric Clapton , Dr. Hook , Travis Trit and Grover Washington Jr. and at the end of the credits James Brown does a quickie scene where he sings "Baby , Please Don't Go".
Bad script.....great music.
Fun, Fantastic Feature Film Alot of people are looking down their noses at this film because John Belushi is not in the film.. Well, of course it's not going to be like the last film!!! Still, this is a feasable concept, packed with great music, great jokes, and the largest single collection of blues artist combined in one "pick-up" band in the history of the era. Don't let so called "purists" ruin your perception, get the move and enjoy the story.
