Product Description

Upon his release from prison, now-brotherless Blues Brother Jake Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) puts the band back together with the help of a golden-voiced strip joint bartender (John Goodman) and a precocious 10-year-old orphan (J. Evan Bonifant) on loan from the comically abusive Sister Mary Stigmata (Kathleen Freeman). This hysterical sequel to the original BLUE BROTHERS comedy/musical makes good use of its copious celebrity cameos, which include appearances from old schoolers James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, and Isaac Hayes in addition to bits from blues phenom Jonny Lang, Erykah Badu, and John Popper.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10608 in DVD
• Brand: Universal Studios
• Released on: 1998-08-04
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 123 minutes

Amazon.com
It's hard to ignore the sad and conspicuous absence of the late John Belushi, but this long-delayed sequel to 1980's The Blues Brothers still has Dan Aykroyd--as Chicago bad boy and blues rocker Elwood Blues--to keep the music alive. Once again, Elwood's trying to reunite the original Blues Brothers Band, and this time he's got a strip-joint bartender (John Goodman) and a 10-year-old orphan named Buster (J. Evan Bonifant) joining him at center stage. Believing that Elwood has kidnapped the kid, the cops are hot on his trail as the reunited band hits the road for the Battle of the Bands in Louisiana and the All-Star Blues Jam that ends the movie in a rockin' blaze of glory. It's a shameless clone of the first film, and nobody--especially not Aykroyd or director John Landis--seems to care that the story's not nearly as fun as the music that's used to stretch it out. Of course there's a seemingly endless parade of stunts, including a nonstop pileup of police cars that's hilariously absurd, but what really matters here--indeed, the movie's only saving grace--is the great lineup of legendary blues musicians. Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Junior Wells, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Jonny Lang, Eddie Floyd, and Blues Traveler are among the many special guests assembled for the film, and their stellar presence makes you wonder if the revived Blues Brothers shouldn't remain an obscure opening act. The collector's edition DVD includes production photos, the theatrical trailers, and a behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of the film including interviews with the principal cast. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

Love It, Hate It, It's Still The Blues.....Brothers!
Love it or hate it, it doesn't matter, this is still a great blues film. Sure this sequel has a silly plot, but so was the original....it's a joke, get it? I found myself laughing repeatedly as the plot continued to satirize the entire concept of a sequel.....if it was too subtle for you, watch it again....it's right there, brazen as can be.

But who on earth would watch this film for the plot? True to the original, 2000 is a great blues MUSIC sequel. You've got to admire the script writing that has Elwood earnestly trying to convince his band they can compete in a battle of the bands against Clapton backing B.B. with Clarence on sax, or Aretha actually delivering a better take on Respect than on the original film, or John Goodman doing James Browns' cape.....this is great stuff.....and what really matters is that the musicians are having a ball.....and it comes through loud and clear, with soul to spare.

Buy this one for the music, the charisma that jumps off the screen and realize that Belushi would have loved it no matter what.....after all, it still celebrates the blues!

Insult to the late John Belushi
It is mind boggling that Dan Aykroyd who helped create the original Blues Brothers would wait almost 20 years to produce a sequel of this caliber.

I waited till BB 2000 came out on video and watched it. I was dumfounded! I did not laugh at anything. I was waiting for a scence that would at least make me snicker but to no avail.

Right at the scence when the Dan and John were in the river in their car as a submarine I could not take it anymore. I stopped the tape, rewound it, put it back in its cover and returned it the next day.

I will not watch it again! This movie is an insult to anybody who loved the original and John Belushi should come back to haunt Dan Aykroyd from the grave for attempting to pass this off as a sequel.

The original Blues Brothers was the funniest thing Dan Aykroyd ever did (apart from SNL) and nothing he has done since has been even remotely funny.

You guys had 18 years.All you can think of is this rehash.
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.