Elwood
Blues gets out of jail and once again gets the old band together to
head to Louisiana and enter a Battle of the Bands contest to save the
orphanage. Along the way the group is pursued by the Russian Mafia,
White extremists, and the police.
I had
always wanted a sequel to the wonderful BLUES BROTHERS but seeing how
bad it is I now hope I never see them again. BLUES BROTHERS 2000 is
nothing less than a remake of the first, with the same plot, same
characters they meet, identical situations, and even some of the same
songs. This time around the music is fine, though not as memorable
as that of the first film, but the comedy has aken a real downslide
into painfully unfunny depths. Only in the last few scenarios does
the film finally show some signs of life, not coincidentally in it's
first forays into scenes not previously done in the first film, but
it's too little and too late.
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