1998 Directed by John Landis
Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops.
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The Blues Brothers 2000
Struggling to decide which is the most catastrophic decision here: The addition of the pointless kid sidekick and or the part where the Blues Brothers become dancing zombies. In fairness, they’re both terrible!
I am a man of my word, I promised that if I got 100 followers on letterboxd I would watch and review my least favorite movie of all time; Blues Brothers 2000.
There was a little part of me that was hoping, just wishing that maybe I was just being a little too hard on it the first time and this time I'd realize that while it no doubt has problems, It would at least be good clean fun. I was wrong. This movie fucking sucks and I hate it sooo fucking much.
So just a few things:
- Every little bit of this movie is so forced it's exhausting. It tries to parallel the original in it's plot points…
Uff-da! Dunno why I had the urge to revisit this jabroni pissfest, but holy smokes... talk about embarrassing—this is egregiously terrible and just as bad as I’d remembered. Hard pass on ever watching this again... no thanks, Landis.
The Blues Brothers made by John Landis back in 1980 is the epitome of a cult classic. It had everything. Incredible music, comedy greats, automobile carnage, and two of the greatest characters to ever grace the screen. Jake and Elwood Blues, played by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd were the stuff of legend and became just that. Attempting to recreate that magic 18 years later and 16 years after the tragic death of Belushi for many was a mistake. This sequel doesn't have many fans despite the love and acclaim the first film had inspired, but there are some genuine moments of greatness among the lame storyline and dodgy acting.
The return of The Blues Brothers made me apprehensive when…
John Belushi died on Friday the 5th of March 1982. His untimely death at the age of just 33 saw one of Hollywood's leading comic geniuses snuffed out in his prime. Having battled alcoholism and substance abuse for a few years prior to his death, it still came as a shock to his close family and friends when his body was found in his bungalow at the Chateau Marmont Hotel on Sunset Boulevard. A heroin and cocaine speedball was the apparent cause of death, and Belushi became yet another Hollywood victim of excess. He was laid to rest on the 10th of March, his funeral cortege led by close friend Dan Aykroyd on his Harley Davidson motorcycle, not just brothers…
Dan Aykroyd can genuinely be considered as a comedy genius, but sometimes he needs a little help from those around him. This lacklustre follow-up to the 1980 classic was written by the genial Canadian alongside original director and cohort John Landis, but it never hits the heights the previous film did. It's hard to replace the likes of John Belushi and John Candy in both acting and comedy terms, and although John Goodman is decent here, the script and plot are what makes this a dud. I can never quite bring myself to slaughter this sequel as the original gave me so much. It introduced me to Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and John Lee Hooker, and helped me fall in…
Elwood Blues wird nach 18 Jahren aus dem Gefängnis entlassen, und erfährt das sein Bruder Jake Blues und Curtis gestorben ist. Letzterer hat einen unehelichen Sohn der Polizist ist, von dem er sich Geld leiht. Mit hilfe des Waisenjungen Buster versucht er seine alte Band wieder zusammen zu bringen, immer von den Cops verfolgt.
Im Jahr 1998 kam diese Fortsetzung zum Kultfilm von 1980, wieder unter der Regie von John Landis, raus. Ich persönlich hätte sie nicht gebraucht, den was man hier sieht/geboten bekommt ist schon eine Frechheit. Hier werden so viele Szenen aus dem Original einfach schlecht und ohne neue Ideen nachgedreht, wo man sich fragt was man damit bezwecken wollte. Hier werden nicht viele neue Ideen integriert, und die man neu drin hat sind auch nicht grade gut. Da kommt ziemlich schnell Langeweile auf, da die Charaktere auch nichts neues beisteuern. Für mich ein reinfall, da Hollywood hier wieder gezeigt hat was es nicht kann.
One of the most soulless and horrifically ill-conceived sequels ever made, Blues Brothers 2000 is a painfully desperate follow-up that captures so pitifully little of what made its predecessor a musical comedy classic, reeking of lame-brained studio mandates and giving off a depressing vibe that, aside from the admittedly decent soundtrack, writers John Landis and Dan Aykroyd clearly couldn't have cared less.
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Der verbleibende Blue Brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) kommt nach 18 Jahren aus dem Gefängnis frei und stellt fest das sein Bruder Jake (John Belushi) und sein Vaterersatz Curtis (Cab Calloway) verstorben sind.
Da er es nicht besser weiß, versucht er „Surprise“ die Band wieder zusammenbringen. Ein Barkeeper (John Goodman), ein Waisenkind und ein Cop, stoßen zu der Blue Brothers Band hinzu. Nebenbei fährt man auch noch zufällig an den alten Drehorten vorbei.
Der Versuch vom Kultfilm aus dem Jahr 1980 eine Hochglanz Mainstream Version zu…
So you have "Blues Brothers", a film that is one of a kind. The kind of film that is able to encapsulate chaos, surrealism, the total absence of logic and insanity into a cinematic form while still providing with some great laughs. It featured music legends starting on Aretha Franklin and going to James Brown.
And then, they decided to make a sequel without John Belushi (due to his unfortunate death). And here it is, exactly what one would hope it would be. It's bad, it lacks the vision of the first film, it tries to give a story to a film whose previous installment had absolutely no plot, only random encounters culminating on a brilliant ending. They referenced millions…
It's not the same without Belushi, and child actors are always a terrible idea .. but the soundtrack is brilliant.
