Bottom Line: Little-known, but certainly better-than-average follow-up to the classic ’80s comedy. Worth one watch.
Directed by: John Landis
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Joe Morton, John Goodman, Walter Levine
In 1978, TV’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE starred comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in a skit entitled “The Blues Brothers”, shortly leading them to form a musical group (The Blues Brothers’ Show Band and Revue) under pseudonyms. Two years later, the TV show spun off its recurring skit into a feature film of the same name, the series’ own first theatrically released film. This film instantly became a massive comedy hit as well as what is known as a “cult classic”. BLUES BROTHERS 2000 is the 1998 sequel to that film of eighteen years before. It presents a somewhat continuing story of Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd), who is released from prison within the opening sequence of the film. Upon his release, he becomes aware of two deaths significant to him: that of his brother Jake Blues (John Belushi, who himself passed away only a few years after the original film’s release), and his African-American surrogate father Curtis (jazz singer Cab Calloway, who died a few years prior to the release of this film). Elwood also learns that he, through his surrogate father Curtis, has an illegitimate brother, Cab (Joe Morton). With a ten-year-old orphan tagging alongside him, Elwood makes any possible effort to get the band back together as they were just eighteen years before.
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