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Summary: Good music,but.
Review: Blues Brothers 2000.A blues muscian who has done his time in jail creates a major band which the Police,White supremists,and Russian mafia are constantly after.A most dreadful plot,but excellent muscians who perform admirably several times
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Summary: You guys had 18 years.All you can think of is this rehash.
Review: BB2000 is pathetic.There is not one laugh in the entire thing.Maybe a chuckle at the part where Elwood visits Cab for the first time but that's about it.The movie thinks that just because we saw the original 18 years ago we'd forget all the humor and laugh at it again and think its completley original.John your cheating us.The only thing that saves it is the music and the acting.The performers were really top notch.But really what was the point of the kid?For Elwood to be a hero to excon's single fathers everywhere?speaking of Elwood,Dan Akroyd did not look like he was having that much in this.The first one you could tell he was having fun but here he just acts bored.There could have been a more original plot here.What about if their was a prequel and you had somebody young to play Elwood and somebody young to play Jake.Or since music is the only rodeming quality,why not just make a concert film?Good idea no.
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Summary: Quite possibly the worst movie ever made.
Review: There are so many things wrong with this film,one cannot be sure quite where to begin.The lack of plot?The lack of enthusiam from the actors?The terrible musical sequences?Don't even bother renting this dud.
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Summary: Blues Brothers 2000 Sings the Blues... Literally!!
Review: Like Ghostbusters II came 5 years too late, Blues Brothers 2000 came 20 years too late. It doesn't capture the spirit of the 1979 original at all. Even with all the added characters and a guest stars in this movie, it was very hard to watch and follow.
John Goodman and Joe Morton signed on to this bad script and bad direction. It's nice to see Dan Aykroyed and the rest of the BB Band together and performing again, but they don't seem like they're having any fun at all. However, The Blues Bros. 2000 CD soundtrack is great from beginning to end which is why it deserves three stars instead of two.
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Summary: Good follow up to the frist movie.
Review: Blues Brothers was a good movie,and a classic.It changed the way we look at Nazi's,and movies.when Blues Brothers 2000 came out,I
was excited, and wanted to see It.I heard that it was good.I frist saw It on Vh1.It was funny,and cute.I love the music,and the dance sequences.The car pile-up scene was funny,but over the top.I love the new characters,and the script was good.Out of five
stars I would give this movie a perfect five.
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Summary: I Had The Blues Watching This One
Review: Just not the same. . .with Belushi gone, and Goodman trying to be a substitute. Even the Queen of Soul couldn't top the performance she gave in the earlier film. Some laughs, but very little of the magic. There was a gag about how Elwood parks his car that was done too many times; it was funnier in the first film. And what was up with adding a kid to the mix? The surprise for me was hearing Joe Morton sing. He's actually pretty good! If you do watch this one, stick around after the end credits to catch a performance by James Brown (who's STILL the man, by the way).
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Summary: Great!!!
Review: I watched this movie, then I rewound it and watched it again. The next night, my wife was home, and she watched it with me.This week, I saw it again, and it was still GREAT! 'Nuff said?? Of course, if you don't like the blues, you might as well forget it.
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Summary: Sad, really.
Review: You know that guy you know who keeps telling the same joke over and over again because he either forgot he already told you, or he doesn't realize how it loses its charm after each re-telling? Imagine he has a multi-million dollar budget to make a movie because he told a funny joke 20 years ago.
That's the Blues Brothers 2000.
This movie seems to have been made for no other reason than to bolster Dan Aykroyd's insistent, sad delusion that he's a blues singer, and to make a soundtrack with a bunch of legendary musicians. Noble aims, poor outcome.
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Summary: A great follow up to the blockbuster "The Blues Brothers"
Review: Blues Brothers 2000 has many of the same great types of scenes that The Blues Brothers has. Great car chases, police car pile-ups, and music that will have you tapping your feet all the way to the end of the movie. Most of the original cast appear in this movie, which makes it even better. Personally, I enjoyed this movie more than the first. John Goodman is a great addition to this movie. And you know? I didn't know he could sing.
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Summary: This is proof that sequels are poison
Review: I see all of the positive reviews here, and I'm a bit puzzled. This movie is wrong on every level. First, it repeats the original too much. The same premise gets Elwood tied up with the same people in the same situations. For example, in the original, Matt "Guitar" Murphy is working in a diner with his woman played by Aretha Franklin. THere, Jake and Elwood persuade him to quit his job and join the band again. The same thing happens again in the sequel, only they persuade him to quit his job selling cars. And the encounter with the Reverend Cleo James (James Brown) is the same thing second time around. THe first time it was in a church. The second time in a tent. The car wrecks? John Landis just tries to outdo the last movie! More cars, more breakage, more noise, more pointless nonsense. Also, the music is lame. It's just a cheap, watered-down version of what people today might call blues music. A singing kid? They were really reaching with that one. There is no urban spirit to the music like the first movie. This time, the tunes have smudgy, oily fingerprints from the sorry state of entertainment today all over them. And it might have been better. Oh, and Johnny Lang can't sing worth a darn. But the biggest disappointment of all is how lazy it is. Granted, the original is not a timeless classic to lock in a time vault for future generations...but it is a treat to watch now and then with some memorable quotations and songs. John Landis and Dan Akroyd had 18 years to come up with a script. And the fact that this is the best they can do is mind-boggling. Just like McDonald's makes a hamburger, Hollywood makes a movie. It tastes terrible, but it makes money. And some movie makers have the ability to feel shame. Of all the bad-tasting movies out there, this one is one of the most shameful ones. Landis and Akroyd should bury their heads in the sand for making this rotten mess that tried to be a Big Mac.
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