Blues Brothers 2000

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Summary: A telling fact about Amazon reader reviews
Review: The fact that this has an aggregate three stars tells one a lot about reviews here.This is one of the worst major motion pictures ever made,on a short list with Caddyshack 2,Highlander 2,and Attack of the Clones,among others,and yet there are still people here giving it good reviews and five stars.An important fact to remember is that *any* movie on Amazon which has three and a half stars or less average is the absolute lowest swill to come out of the hollywood machine.Three stars here is equivalent to about 15% on some absolute rating scale.

That said,this movie is a horrible ripoff,and a shining example of how artless and philistine hollywood can be,and how important the almighty buck is to many in the film business.This piece of crap exists for no other reason than for the fact that some executive thought it would make a profit.One star is giving it far,far too much credit.

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Summary: Average
Review: I am a big fan of the originial Blues Brothers movie (1980), but I can't say that this movie is very good. There is no plot to speak of and it's not really funny. But on the bright side, the music is very good. John Goodman can never compete with John Belushi as a singer, but he's not bad. Dan Aykroyd, as you should know, is great on the harmonica and back up vocals. There were appearences in this movie by B.B. King, Aretha Franklin and James Brown. It was nice to see B.B. King play with the Blues brothers, and James Brown was good, but not as good as in the first movie. Aretha Franklin can never sing as well as she did in the original movie, but she was very good in this movie too. There is also an appearence by Blues Traveler, whom I had never heared of before I saw this movie, but found that he was pretty good. in my opinion, they waited too long to make this sequel, but better late than never. If you are a fan of the Blues Brothers, I would suggest you watch this movie for the music.

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Summary: One of the Worst Movies I've Ever Seen...
Review: The only part in this film I liked was Kathleen Freeman reviving her role of the Penguin. The music sucked, the plot was too second-generation (Darrell Hammond taking over for Henry Gibson?), and the voodoo and bluegrass scenes were just embarrassing for anyone over five years old to watch. And John Goodman CANNOT SING!

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Summary: Music from the Legends is the best part
Review: The slender plot of this movie is just an excuse to string together great (and altogether too short) performances by Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, James Brown, Eric Clapton and others. Basically Elwood Blues is out of jail and is trying to get the old band together again. In the course of this endeavor, he is pursued by the police and Russian mobsters and he manages to steal $500 and kidnap a 10-year-old boy from an orphanage in the process. There are a lot of chase scenes and there's a bit of voodoo and lots of stunts thrown into the bargain. It's not a stellar production, but the music makes it worth a look.

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Summary: Not as good as the 1st
Review: if you have seen the 1st blues brothers, then you will kno that you can never replace it, but blues brothers 2000 is a pretty decent sequel. a lot of the same big musicians came back, and john goodman took over where john belushi left off. it is still a great movie, but will never beat the 1st.