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Summary: This movie stinks
Review: I was tremendously disappointed by this movie. It stinks. What a disappointing sequel to such a brilliant movie (the original Blues Brothers). Don't waste your time.
Rating: 
Summary: Give it a chance
Review: I won't even bother trying to convince you if you are set against watching it, but if you have misgivings, like I did, I urge you to give it a chance. You won't regret it.
It's not as good as the Blues Brothers, but then it's not as good as Driving Miss Daisy either. Why not let the film succeed on its own terms rather than coparing it to the other film in the series?
The stand out performance has to be Aretha Franklin's Respect. Quite why that song didn't feature in the original in place of Think is beyond me.
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Summary: TOOO AWESOME.......
Review: This is the best of the best!! Watch the first B. Brothers video. I didnt and i had forgotten a few things that went on. Like the Cop Car how it slid into the curb. This is a take off from the first one, but even BETTER. "John would be proud". The Music is just slamming.. Want to get up and dance and enjoy a funny video? this is it! Just bought it too. What a surprise at the end with the Jam Session, with all the top blues musicians and singers!!!!! what a surprise it was. What else can I say but BUY IT!!!! you will love it !! Go Elwood...
Rating:
Summary: well not bad for a sequel
Review: the reason i rated this movie 4 stars was cause i like the music and the musicians.
Rating:
Summary: well not bad for a sequel
Review: the reason i rated this movie 4 stars was cause i like the nusic and the musicians.
Rating:
Summary: Not Bad for what it's worth
Review: Folks, don't expect the magic created by the chemistry of the late Belushi w/ Aykroyd. BB#1 was a classic in a class by itself. This film is leave your brains at the door and minus the true wit and charm of the original, but it's good for what it's worth.I think we all agree that the all-star Blues jam with BB King, Clapton, Bo Diddley, Lou Rawls, Charlis Musslewhite, Jr. Wells, Paul Shaffer, Gary US Bonds, etc. was the best thing about this film. A treat for us hardcore R&B conisseurs. The gospel revival scene with the Godfather (that's James Brown to some of you) was almost as good as BB#1, but this one has a tinge of sacrilege to those who take this kind of religion devoutly. The stuff about the kid was okay, but why the hell would they film a scene with a little boy in a strip joint surrounded by half-naked strippers? Yeah, it's full of flaws and lacks the fun and charm of BB#1. Goodman is a fine comic, but repalcing him for Belushi is like having Lou Costello replace Oliver Hardy. It ain't happening y'all. Just enjoy the music and have a good time. By the way, Dan Aykroyd's soliloquy on the importance of R&B music to American culture contains more truth than comedy.
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Summary: Just Horrible!
Review: Stupid, Dumb, Plotless, Pointless film starts out with Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) just being released from prison. With his brother Jake (Great former actor John Belushi) dead. Elwood goes out to do the same thing as in the first. Get the band back together and raise some money. It's so predicable from the begining. Elwood get's some help from (John Goodman) and Buster (J.Evan Bonifat.) The film just goes on and on that I wanted to just leave when I saw it for the first time. The endless line of stupid stunts and music, is an insult to the original film. The acting is so bad, that I couldn't believe it! Like the endless pile up of police cars and Elwood driving a car through a lake, with no problem. They serve no purpose. The song "634-5789." It would never end! Anyone who likes this film better than the original doesn't know the class that the first one had. We didn't need this film at all! Blues Brothers 2000 was a big box office bomb and one of the worst films I have ever seen! Grade: F
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Summary: 2000 was too late, but better late then never.
Review: DON'T sit down and watch this movie expecting to watch the same kind of movie that THE BLUES BROTHERS was, this movie can't hold a candle to it, very few movies can. DO however sit down and put your mind on auto pilot and enjoy the good music and fun scenes as Elwood Blues (Aykroyd complete with a grating Chicago accent,) again assembles his old band and a few new members in Mighty Mack (Goodman is a decent enough replacement for the late Belushi) an orphanage boy named Buster and an Illinois police commander named Cab, as they travel across the country from a country fair in Kentucky to Dixieland Louisiana for a Battle of The Bands complete with music giants such as BB King, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Jeff Baxter, Travis Tritt, Issac Hayes and many others. While there are some shameless parrallels between this movie and the 1st one (Russian gangsters replace the Illionis Nazi's, The Blues Brothers Band must improvise country music at the fair like they did at the honkey tonk bar, among other similarities) it doesn't spoil the film much. Yes the first film is better but on it's own merits, 2000 is still a great movie in the same style and spirit. There is one thing I'd like to have seen however, Twiggy chaseing after Elwood who stood her up the way Carrie Fisher chased after Jake in the previous film, that would have been great.
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Summary: Different, silly, but still fun!
Review: There are a lot of negitave reviews for this movie so I wanted to add my 2 cents worth. Yes this movie is no Citizen Cane. It isn't even an fantastic as the original Blues Brothers. What it is though is fun. Aside from the returning stars from the first movie you have a new assorted cast that includes some musical greats. The musical sequences are toe-tapping good. The final scenes and the credits are a great treat. Watch this movie if you understand that it's not Academy award winning material, just an hour or so of silly fun. Dan Akroyd still rocks!!
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Summary: A complete failure
Review: This film is, in a word, pathetic. It is also all the more disappointing after the soulful vitality of the original. It reeks of corporate theft and slick marketing ploys, which have tried to steal the unstealable heart and soul of the original, and then sell it off for a cheap price to the ignorant. You can't take the inspired creativity of an original and manufacture it into some kind of old-age substitute. Like a bunch of geriatrics banjo players standing round trying to entertain some teenyboppers at a police club rock concert, this film just doesn't work. The only good scene for me was the opening scene, when Dan Akroyd waits patiently on the side of the road for his long deceased brother to come pick him up after getting out of jail. It goes down from there, after about 5 minutes. You can't buy freedom and good hearty rebellious souls. You can't buy the inspiration of deep south soul music, and you can't buy the things which The Blues Brothers were in the original. Don't you blaspheme, my names Bob and this here is my place, where we play both kinds of music, country AND western, so get the licence plate of that car, have an orange soda, and don't pick me up the day I get out of jail in a police car! Don't you blaspheme! And as for you marketing experts, I am just going to write that check on the dash of my car.... Soul music, rebellion, the 'mission', and freedom are things which return in a regathering of old rock bands only, and only when they aren't made to fulfill the agenda of yuppie executives who don't have a clue what the original film was about.
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