To start off, I have to say that I am a fan of the original. My first problem was the fact that the movie was called Blues Brothers 2000, and it came out in 1998, lame. They essentialy start the movie the same way with Dan Akroyd getting out of prison but his brother, Jon Belushi is now dead. Much like in the first movie, Elwood goes to see the Penguin. For some reason Elwood is now a mentor for ten year old kid named Buster, which is just kind of stupid in gerneral.
Soon Elwood is confronted with another mission from God and he must get the band back together. He now discovers his friend Curtis had fathered a child and now is a state trooper. Elwood tries to recruit him and settles for John Goodman. By the middle of the movie, the trooper, Goodman, and the kid are all dressing like Elwood.
It was kind of cool to see where all the members of the band ended up, but it was too much of a gap in between the two movies. Now everyone is too old to believe they would put up with this shit. There were alot of cameos, but the last thirty miniutes of the movie was just where most of them showed up. While the first one had a bunch of cameos from actors and musicians, this one was made up of musicians that not everybody knew.
In the end, this flick just didn't live up to the first. It just wasn't the same kind of movie, as much as they tried. Nothing against Dan Akroyd, but Jon Belushi was what was missing. I thinkif this movie was never made, the legacy of the movie wouldn't have been tarnished. Oh well, I guess we'll never have to wonder what if they ever made a sequal. Because we know it would suck.
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