Blues Brothers 2000
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Movie Reviews of Blues Brothers 2000
Movie Review: one of the best!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a must see if you enjoyed The Blues Brothers. It follows on in the same madcap way with more excellent music, You will not be disappointed,Movie Review: Oh, please, no.........this didn't happen!!!
Summary: 3 Stars
Making a sequel of the 1980 megablockbuster "Blues Brothers" after the 1983 death of John Belushi is, at its gentlest, a very bad idea, and at its starchiest, a universe-altering affront bordering on celestial heresy.
The uneven and overall creepy sequel named "Blues Brothers 2000" (which came out in 1998) is--simultaneously--very good and very awful. The ghost of John Belushi floats above the whole affair, and that ain't good. Oddly, the music in the sequel is really, really good, and much bluesier than in the original film.
"Blues Brothers 2000" seems like an awkward, almost surreal mixture of big budget, big names, pencil-thin script ideas, and fear of the ghost of John Belushi. This movie tries--and fails--to be many things at once: a movie for true blues fans; a movie for kids; a light-hearted comedy; a gritty, insider-winking-at-clever-jokes-about-the-blues-community chuckle parade; and a worthy sequel to its predecessor.
You will not be wrong in calling this film a train wreck. Dan Ackroyd's attempt at a Chicago accent (.......he sounds--alas--Canadian) is not up to snuff for me, a pure Cook County product. Also, when watching this dumbed-down-below-dumb script, I continuously found it hard to believe that sober adults would have knowingly agreed to be part of this project.
You know what? Last night in the Wal-Mart parking lot I saw one of those cool grasshoppers that look like they're actually a little green stick. Very cool! Anyway, that grasshopper who looks like a stick and lives outside of Wal-Mart...even he--an INSECT--would have thought that the script of "Blues Brothers 2000" was stupid as all getout.
So...the movie gets three stars nonetheless because the MUSIC in it is absolutely first-rate, as long as you ignore everything that actors Dan Ackroyd and John Goodman sing on the soundtrack alongside a Mount Olympus of blues gods.
Long live the Chicago blues!
Movie Review: Great
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie, it's funny, the music is great & it has a great cast. The musical talent in this movie is amazing.
This is a real band playing real music, no lip syncing here. If you like The Blues give it a try it's really a good movie.
Movie Review: The Original: 10 stars! The Sequel: 4 stars
Summary: 4 Stars
4 stars for Effort. The best part is the speech that Elwood gives the Band when they want to quit after they run out of gas, etc. LOVE IT! 100 Stars for that speech! Very poignant. & there are alot of other fun scenes in this movie. I think that most Blues Brothers fans will enjoy this movie, but think that the original was Far superior. The worst parts: a phone-sex office scene? An excellent blues band in a strip club? Awful! I mean blues music should be fun and enjoyed, but I also feel that the roots & essence of it are highly spiritual. To me, those scenes cheapen The Music. I would also have liked it better if they "introduced" a few more lesser known Blues talents, in addition to showcasing the already famous ones. There are too many starving artists around these days, who won't sell out to the corporate ilk. Come on, Danny and John, help 'em out a little! I recently visited Memphis for a week. We went down to Beale St. on a Sat. nite, in the expectation of hearing some good live blues. Could only find ONE club that had it, an actual real live blues band, out of ALL of the clubs in that area (checked out every club in the Beale St. area - at least 25 clubs)! & the band stopped playing there at 10 PM. Everywhere else had disco, commercial retro cover/note-for-note copy rock, Rap, or "dueling pianos". & of course, there was NO live Jazz anywhere. B-O-R-I-N-G. Went to BB King's Club/restaurant: The band was playing a note-for-note cover version of "Celebration" by Kool and The Gang! It was like a Wedding band! Of course we immediately left. Shame on you, BB, and shame on you, Memphis. Doesn't Anyone care about Authentic music anymore?! Memphis advertises it's city as the "Home of The Blues"! Pathetic. & while I'm on the subject, where's The Blues music at "The House of Blues" chain/restaurants/bars, which were originally started by Danny Akroyd?? Most of them feature commercial/non-authentic-blues music. Lame. As Frank Zappa said, "Corporate Music Sucks". Right On, Frank.Movie Review: Just Enjoy the Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Leave the movie alone! All the reviews I've read so far are beating a dead horse, repeating the same thing over and over! I haven't seen this much repetition since all the reality shows! Believe it or not, despite how everyone thinks this movie is a piece of crap, this is the movie that got me into R&B. I've seen both movies and can honestly say they were both excellently done. The amount of musical talent; Aretha Franklin, Eddie Floyd, Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Sam Moore, B.B. King and the rest of the musical guests are at their best. Never again in history will this talent be brought together again. And the whole sequel "curse" or whatever you want to call it, is also a bunch of crap. Quite a few movies don't deserve sequels because the first movie was already bad enough and the plot so thinly transparent (Pirates of the Carribean, horror/slasher films, Elvis, etc. so on and so forth) So for the last time, leave the movie alone and go find some real crap that deserves being trashed!