@Matteo Gheza Thanks. Presumably, Jake would be writing to Elwood. When the letters stopped, he would figure it out that Jake wasn’t around anymore. It doesn’t make any sense. But, it doesn’t have to. It’s a goshdarn movie!!! 🤪🤪🤪
@@sludge4125 it's strongly implied in the first Blues Brothers that Jake is illiterate. He doesn't even sign his own name when he checks out his property from prison - he makes an "X" which is the usual way for illiterate people to 'make their mark.' So, I doubt Jake was writing any letters.
As bad as Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) is, you actually can't help but feel sorry for Elwood Blues during the opening of this movie. He just found out that he lost his brother, his father figure died, the band broke up again, and even that the orphanage is completely gone, despite he and Jake saving it by the end of the first Blues Brothers movie, all in one day.
I think the acappella version of the song is deeper than the full Gospel chorus later on in the movie and what’s featured on the soundtrack. The solemnness speak to Elwoods character right now and it’s got that beat and rhythm with the lyrics don’t need any additional accompaniment to touch you
Make sense that Jake was the one to get out before Elwood. Seeing how he (Elwood) was the driver during all the property destruction and highspeed chase's. Plus knowing Elwood's love for his brother and him (Jake) just had done doing time, probably took most of the wrap for the charges! Just a little theory I have about the Blues Brother's storyline
Also this clip skips the super important part of the prison official played by Frank Oz (who released Jake in the original) asking "Didn't anybody tell him?" and Elwood then being informed that Jake had passed.
Never bothered to watch 2000 when it came out because I heard how horrible it was. I decided to turn it on one day and at the this intro got me super excited that people were just not being fair to it because it didn’t have Belushi. Needless to say, this is by far the best part of the movie and once it got to the goofy voodoo stuff I couldn’t even take it anymore and turned it off.
Everyone in the comments are correct. It's too sad. But you may or may not know that it was actually supposed to be even more sad. The script had Elwood so extremely sad after he's told about Jake. To the point that when he is in the car with the girl (Matarra)? who picked him up, he asks her to pull over and let him out. And proceeds to attempt suicide by jumping in the river. And while almost drowning, he sees a tow truck bringing the new blues mobile (the Ford) into the lot owned by BB King character. He has second thoughts and gets out of the river and climbs up a grassy hill to find the lot closed with the gate locked. He waits there all night sitting and playing his harmonica until it opens in the morning. And that would bring us to when he meets Melvin Gasperon/BB King and asks about the car. The fun fact of it is they actually filmed the suicide attempt and everything. Check out the scene when he first sees the car and is looking at it through the closed gate at night. You can see that Elwood's clothes are soaking wet from the suicide attempt. I guess they thought it was sad enough already. That plot doesn't even sound anything like a Blues Brothers movie. But they did film it. That would have been way too dark. But you know what? I'd take the more sadness over the stupid kid and the Disney version of the blues brothers. Nothing like the 1st film at all. Belushi would not like what they made it out to be. Jake swore and smoked cigarettes, and was a smartass, hard ass blues musician and everyone loved him for it. The 2nd film is basically a Disney cartoon. .....oh!.... And the final line of Elwood dialogue is "put on your seatbelt kid" wtf! 😎🕴️🕴️
According to Dan, it was the fault of Universal that the film turned out the way it did. They wanted it to be geared more towards a kid-friendly audience, for whatever *UNFATHOMABLE* reason. Dan had also originally wanted Jim Belushi to be in the movie as the long lost blood brother of Jake, which makes sense as Jim had been performing on stage with Dan as his own, new Blues Brother, "Brother" Zee Blues, since the early 1990's, but Jim was contract-bound in another project & wasn't available, so the film was rewritten to focus on Cabel Chamberlain, the long lost, illegitimate son of Curtis from the first movie.
@@elwoodjacobs4353 you are precisely correct. As far as we know at least. "According to Jim" was the contract he couldn't get out of. it was a good show but not good enough to be a sacrifice for what we were supposed to get for a long awaited sequel. Aykroyd and Goodman did the best they could with what they had to work with. As disappointing as it may have been, we still got a killer soundtrack. And I still went to see it 3 times the day it came out anyway. I'm really glad they got to do another movie while all the guys were still alive. Seeing the band members 17 years later was the best part of it, and of course the great soundtrack.
@@chrisgodlaproductions3106 What's all the more heartbreaking about it is that all the problems were relatively easy fixes. -Rewrite Cabel's backstory. If they _absolutely_ couldn't wait for Jim, Cabel wasn't a bad idea for a character, but the backstory they wrote for him made Curtis look like a total sleezeball. According to 2000, Curtis messed around with a married woman & was only driven to the orphanage when she left him, refused to let him see Cab, & told her husband it was his. *WHAT A COMPLETELY TASTEFUL & REVERENT TRIBUTE TO MR. CALLOWAY.* Just say that Curtis had a fling, they both fell out, & she took Cab with her. Same backstory, no dirt on Curtis. -Give Mighty Mack a better character, backstory, & motivation. In real life, John Goodman started performing with Dan shortly after Dan recruited Jim as Brother Zee because Dan saw John sing in King Ralph, & John was a major backer of the House of Blues club chain (& a big Blues Brothers fan), so Dan asked if he wanted to do it, & John said yes. Obviously, for a 50 minute concert set, you don't need an elaborate backstory for where Mighty Mack came from as he's just there to sing, but in a movie that "explores" the "origin" of him? Yeah, ya need a little more than a bartender at a strip club who just so happens to be able to sing blues & just decides to become a Blues Brother 'cuz his club burned down. -Cut out the overt supernatural crap. The *ONLY* supernatural elements in the first movie were the Heavenly light shining upon Jake, the car being blessed to survive & carry out the mission until the very end, & arguably the Minnie the Moocher scene, but that was *IT.* By 2000's logic, both Christianity & voodoo magic coexist, & random apparitions & unnatural weather phenomena can just spontaneously materialize just by singing a frickin' song. & don't even get me *started* on Queen Mousette. -Can the kid friendly crap & either age up Buster or nix him entirely. Blues Brothers is not, has not been, nor ever will be for kids, & yet Universal tried their darndest to make it so. If Buster was *madatory,* at least make him more like an a broken 18 or 19 year old who's struggling to find himself & his place in the world, not a friggin' squeaky clean 10 year old, & _don't dumb down the action scenes._ _-Overhaul_ Elwood's character & motivation. The man Dan Aykroyd plays in this movie is *NOT* Elwood J. Blues. He's a friggin' *CARTOON CHARACTER.* The only emotion we see him express when he learns the death of Jake is him bowing his head slightly, & *THAT'S ALL.* The only time we see him cry is after the Penguin tells him the story of Cabel, & even then he does it like he's a flipping _Sesame Street_ character. Not one tear shed for Jake or Curtis. In fact, Elwood only utters the name of Jake about 3 times in the whole movie, the last time being when he meets Cab in his office, & then _never again,_ whereas *EVERY TIME* Dan has done a show as Elwood, both before & after Jim came along, he has *ALWAYS* introduced either Elwood, Zee, or both as "A man/two men who live to keep the music of his/their brother, Jake, alive", & they rewrote a lyric in Sweet Home Chicago for Zee to sing for Jake: "One & one is two, two & two is four, I see my brother Jake comin' through that back door!" Also, Elwood's reasons for dragging the band back together are _very_ flimsy. He wants to keep the music going sonit won't die to the soulless modern music, which is a fine enough reason for _him_ to wanna keep going (although it would've been much better if they gave him a line something like "Jake died, but I won't let the music die with him."), but there zero reason why he felt the need to screw up the lives of his former bandmates all over again for another tour. He could've just joined another group if he wanted. They all would've accepted him in a heartbeat.
@@elwoodjacobs4353 good points. I would have liked to have seen a sequel more like us fans would have liked. Us fans would definitely come up with a better script than that but that's what we got!
Dan originally wanted Jim to be in it as the long lost blood brother of Jake as Jim had been performing on stage with Dan as his own, new Blues Brother, "Brother" Zee Blues, but he was bound by contract on another project & wasn't available, so the film was rewritten to focus on Cabel Chamberlain, the long lost illegitimate son of Curtis from the first movie.
@@Frankie-O Jim wasn't meant to replace John as Jake. Both he & Dan didn't feel that was right. Dan trained Jim to be his own Blues Brother, "Brother" Zee Blues, who is the biological brother of Jake, & who pays tribute to Jake in quite a bit of his performances, including singing a new line in Sweet Home Chicago, "One & one is two, two & two is four, I see my brother Jake comin' through that back door!", & dedicating a performance of She Caught The Katy at one show to the memory of Jake Blues, stating, "If it wasn't for Jake & Elwood Blues, we wouldn't all be here tonight." He's not a replacement, he's an addition.
@@Frankie-O Yes, I couldn't agree with you more. In fact I think Jim should have chosen to take over the role of Jake Blues, after all, he is family and he should carry on the old Belushi/Aykroyd team because John's character jake should never have died. I can imagine him in an alternate Blues Brothers 2000, Can you? Please reply back ♥♥♥
Not A Doctor uh sweet heart two things, he’s name is John belushi and he passed away but if he was still alive when they made a shitty second movie I’m sure he would be in it otherwise it wouldn’t be SO SHIT I MEAN LIKE?! NO ONE ASK FOR A SECOND ITS BULLSHIT
James wanted to be in this movie but other obligations kept him from doing so. He would have been Jake's long lost biological brother Zee, as he is in the Blues Brothers Band today.
Here’s how I envisioned the opening of this movie (with some alternate touches of course): Universal Pictures Presents A Bernie Brillstein / John Belushi Production A Landis/Belzberg Film James Belushi Dan Aykroyd John Goodman Blues Brothers 2000 Joe Morton J Evan Bonifant Carries Fisher Aretha Franklin James Brown Ray Charles B.B. King The Blues Brothers Band Nia Peeples Kathleen Freeman Sam Moore Wilson Pickett Frank Oz Eddie Floyd Jonny Lang Steve Lawrence Junior Wells Lonnie Brooks Blues Traveller Jeff Morris Shann Johnson Olivia Newton John Andrew Lloyd Webber Julian Lloyd Webber Erykah Badu Darrell Hammond and Dennis Hopper and Samuel L Jackson as Daniel and Mount Casting Ross Clydesdale Joanna Colbert Choreographer Barry Lather Music Score By Elmer Bernstein Songs Arranged By Paul Shaffer Costume Designer Deborah Nadoolman Associate Producer Grace Gilroy Editor Dale Beldin Production Designer Bill Brodie Director of Photography David Herrington Executive Producers Bernie Brillstein Oliva Newton John and James Belushi Based on The Blues Brothers by Dan Aykroyd and John Landis Story By Dan Aykroyd and Dave Thomas Screenplay By Dan Aykroyd Timothy Harris and Hershal Weingrod Produced By John Landis Dan Aykroyd and Leslie Belzberg Directed By John Landis
It should be a law in film-making for sequels if a writer suggests "we should add a kid that acts like the main character" the answer is NO!.. aside from that, the rest wasn't horrific.
Seen the original well over 400X. Know the dialogue chapter and verse. Saw this one once. Opening scene hurt too much to watch and the rest of it sucked. Original for me until I die.
@@elwoodjacobs4353 As an ex-con, I can attest to this. They would have assumed that Elwood would have known, but once Elwood stopped getting letters at some point when Jake (and Curtis) died, Elwood had no idea
This sums up what’s wrong with the film it’s too sad. Half the double act is dead, the director is controversial after killing an actor, most people’s star had fallen. That being said it feels like they tried but it just doesn’t work. The soundtrack was good though
@@paulzammataro7185 apparently not you pretentious nitwit - I'm not sure which movies you watch but this really isn't that deep! Just because his brother isn't with us doesn't excuse a lame opening. The movie could have opened with a bang and still paid respect to John.
This is both the best & saddest part of the movie.
It just makes you feel sorry for both Elwood & Dan Aykroyd.
Pretty unrealistic though. How would he NOT know his brother had died?
@Matteo Gheza Thanks. Presumably, Jake would be writing to Elwood. When the letters stopped, he would figure it out that Jake wasn’t around anymore.
It doesn’t make any sense. But, it doesn’t have to. It’s a goshdarn movie!!! 🤪🤪🤪
Actually, Elwood didn't find out Jake passed until he was released 'cuz the warden forgot to tell him.
@@sludge4125 it's strongly implied in the first Blues Brothers that Jake is illiterate. He doesn't even sign his own name when he checks out his property from prison - he makes an "X" which is the usual way for illiterate people to 'make their mark.' So, I doubt Jake was writing any letters.
Probably wasn't easy playing Elwood after 18 years without John RIP
As bad as Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) is, you actually can't help but feel sorry for Elwood Blues during the opening of this movie.
He just found out that he lost his brother, his father figure died, the band broke up again, and even that the orphanage is completely gone, despite he and Jake saving it by the end of the first Blues Brothers movie, all in one day.
For John Belushi, Cab Calaway, and John Candy.
R.I.P.
I think the acappella version of the song is deeper than the full Gospel chorus later on in the movie and what’s featured on the soundtrack. The solemnness speak to Elwoods character right now and it’s got that beat and rhythm with the lyrics don’t need any additional accompaniment to touch you
For
John Belushi
(1949-1982)
Can Calloway
(1907-1994)
and
John Candy
(1950-1994)
In Memory of
Junior Wells
(1934-1998)
R.I.P.
@@ChilesRussellTaylor Junior Wells died before the release of the Blues Brothers 2000 (1998).
And the Bob actor.
Make sense that Jake was the one to get out before Elwood. Seeing how he (Elwood) was the driver during all the property destruction and highspeed chase's. Plus knowing Elwood's love for his brother and him (Jake) just had done doing time, probably took most of the wrap for the charges!
Just a little theory I have about the Blues Brother's storyline
That is a great idea, for sure.
Having Frank Oz return, now promoted to Warden, was a nice touch.
This was pretty good. The opening scene that is.
It went downhill from there...fast.
Also this clip skips the super important part of the prison official played by Frank Oz (who released Jake in the original) asking "Didn't anybody tell him?" and Elwood then being informed that Jake had passed.
It’s amazing how three titans of music are in this movie and Albert Macon Aretha, BB, and James. RIP.
Artisan1979 and Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton and a few other big names
@@dayboi3217 paul shaffer.
try original blues brothers and how many legends were in that
Mr. Fabulous and Matt "Guitar" Murphy
Wish this existed without the movie SFX, should be the first track on the soundtrack album with the gospel version as a reprise later.
He just stood there all day & night like it was nothing
One of the best opening scenes to any movie.
I was very surprised that they opened this movie with such a sad scene. What an awful way to learn that your brother has passed away.
i miss john belushi
Someone costed us John Belushi.
Never bothered to watch 2000 when it came out because I heard how horrible it was. I decided to turn it on one day and at the this intro got me super excited that people were just not being fair to it because it didn’t have Belushi. Needless to say, this is by far the best part of the movie and once it got to the goofy voodoo stuff I couldn’t even take it anymore and turned it off.
I'm not crying, you're crying!
They handled it in the best way possible, I thought. He stood there until the next morning.
I love this scene because of that song
The real title of the background music o c this scene should be John the Devestator wrote the book of the 7 fleas!
Love this song
Everyone in the comments are correct. It's too sad. But you may or may not know that it was actually supposed to be even more sad. The script had Elwood so extremely sad after he's told about Jake. To the point that when he is in the car with the girl (Matarra)? who picked him up, he asks her to pull over and let him out. And proceeds to attempt suicide by jumping in the river. And while almost drowning, he sees a tow truck bringing the new blues mobile (the Ford) into the lot owned by BB King character. He has second thoughts and gets out of the river and climbs up a grassy hill to find the lot closed with the gate locked. He waits there all night sitting and playing his harmonica until it opens in the morning. And that would bring us to when he meets Melvin Gasperon/BB King and asks about the car.
The fun fact of it is they actually filmed the suicide attempt and everything. Check out the scene when he first sees the car and is looking at it through the closed gate at night. You can see that Elwood's clothes are soaking wet from the suicide attempt. I guess they thought it was sad enough already. That plot doesn't even sound anything like a Blues Brothers movie. But they did film it. That would have been way too dark. But you know what? I'd take the more sadness over the stupid kid and the Disney version of the blues brothers. Nothing like the 1st film at all. Belushi would not like what they made it out to be. Jake swore and smoked cigarettes, and was a smartass, hard ass blues musician and everyone loved him for it. The 2nd film is basically a Disney cartoon. .....oh!.... And the final line of Elwood dialogue is "put on your seatbelt kid" wtf! 😎🕴️🕴️
According to Dan, it was the fault of Universal that the film turned out the way it did. They wanted it to be geared more towards a kid-friendly audience, for whatever *UNFATHOMABLE* reason.
Dan had also originally wanted Jim Belushi to be in the movie as the long lost blood brother of Jake, which makes sense as Jim had been performing on stage with Dan as his own, new Blues Brother, "Brother" Zee Blues, since the early 1990's, but Jim was contract-bound in another project & wasn't available, so the film was rewritten to focus on Cabel Chamberlain, the long lost, illegitimate son of Curtis from the first movie.
@@elwoodjacobs4353 you are precisely correct. As far as we know at least. "According to Jim" was the contract he couldn't get out of. it was a good show but not good enough to be a sacrifice for what we were supposed to get for a long awaited sequel. Aykroyd and Goodman did the best they could with what they had to work with. As disappointing as it may have been, we still got a killer soundtrack. And I still went to see it 3 times the day it came out anyway. I'm really glad they got to do another movie while all the guys were still alive. Seeing the band members 17 years later was the best part of it, and of course the great soundtrack.
@@chrisgodlaproductions3106 What's all the more heartbreaking about it is that all the problems were relatively easy fixes.
-Rewrite Cabel's backstory.
If they _absolutely_ couldn't wait for Jim, Cabel wasn't a bad idea for a character, but the backstory they wrote for him made Curtis look like a total sleezeball.
According to 2000, Curtis messed around with a married woman & was only driven to the orphanage when she left him, refused to let him see Cab, & told her husband it was his.
*WHAT A COMPLETELY TASTEFUL & REVERENT TRIBUTE TO MR. CALLOWAY.*
Just say that Curtis had a fling, they both fell out, & she took Cab with her. Same backstory, no dirt on Curtis.
-Give Mighty Mack a better character, backstory, & motivation.
In real life, John Goodman started performing with Dan shortly after Dan recruited Jim as Brother Zee because Dan saw John sing in King Ralph, & John was a major backer of the House of Blues club chain (& a big Blues Brothers fan), so Dan asked if he wanted to do it, & John said yes.
Obviously, for a 50 minute concert set, you don't need an elaborate backstory for where Mighty Mack came from as he's just there to sing, but in a movie that "explores" the "origin" of him?
Yeah, ya need a little more than a bartender at a strip club who just so happens to be able to sing blues & just decides to become a Blues Brother 'cuz his club burned down.
-Cut out the overt supernatural crap.
The *ONLY* supernatural elements in the first movie were the Heavenly light shining upon Jake, the car being blessed to survive & carry out the mission until the very end, & arguably the Minnie the Moocher scene, but that was *IT.*
By 2000's logic, both Christianity & voodoo magic coexist, & random apparitions & unnatural weather phenomena can just spontaneously materialize just by singing a frickin' song.
& don't even get me *started* on Queen Mousette.
-Can the kid friendly crap & either age up Buster or nix him entirely.
Blues Brothers is not, has not been, nor ever will be for kids, & yet Universal tried their darndest to make it so.
If Buster was *madatory,* at least make him more like an a broken 18 or 19 year old who's struggling to find himself & his place in the world, not a friggin' squeaky clean 10 year old, & _don't dumb down the action scenes._
_-Overhaul_ Elwood's character & motivation.
The man Dan Aykroyd plays in this movie is *NOT* Elwood J. Blues. He's a friggin' *CARTOON CHARACTER.*
The only emotion we see him express when he learns the death of Jake is him bowing his head slightly, & *THAT'S ALL.*
The only time we see him cry is after the Penguin tells him the story of Cabel, & even then he does it like he's a flipping _Sesame Street_ character.
Not one tear shed for Jake or Curtis.
In fact, Elwood only utters the name of Jake about 3 times in the whole movie, the last time being when he meets Cab in his office, & then _never again,_ whereas *EVERY TIME* Dan has done a show as Elwood, both before & after Jim came along, he has *ALWAYS* introduced either Elwood, Zee, or both as "A man/two men who live to keep the music of his/their brother, Jake, alive", & they rewrote a lyric in Sweet Home Chicago for Zee to sing for Jake: "One & one is two, two & two is four, I see my brother Jake comin' through that back door!"
Also, Elwood's reasons for dragging the band back together are _very_ flimsy.
He wants to keep the music going sonit won't die to the soulless modern music, which is a fine enough reason for _him_ to wanna keep going (although it would've been much better if they gave him a line something like "Jake died, but I won't let the music die with him."), but there zero reason why he felt the need to screw up the lives of his former bandmates all over again for another tour. He could've just joined another group if he wanted. They all would've accepted him in a heartbeat.
It’s the right amount of sad. John/Jake is dead, and that can’t be not-sad.
@@elwoodjacobs4353 good points. I would have liked to have seen a sequel more like us fans would have liked. Us fans would definitely come up with a better script than that but that's what we got!
I wish Jim Belushi was in this movie.
I think he was meant to be.
Dan originally wanted Jim to be in it as the long lost blood brother of Jake as Jim had been performing on stage with Dan as his own, new Blues Brother, "Brother" Zee Blues, but he was bound by contract on another project & wasn't available, so the film was rewritten to focus on Cabel Chamberlain, the long lost illegitimate son of Curtis from the first movie.
Jim Belushi could've taken over as Joliet Jake, which he was originally supposed to.
@@Frankie-O Jim wasn't meant to replace John as Jake. Both he & Dan didn't feel that was right.
Dan trained Jim to be his own Blues Brother, "Brother" Zee Blues, who is the biological brother of Jake, & who pays tribute to Jake in quite a bit of his performances, including singing a new line in Sweet Home Chicago, "One & one is two, two & two is four, I see my brother Jake comin' through that back door!", & dedicating a performance of She Caught The Katy at one show to the memory of Jake Blues, stating, "If it wasn't for Jake & Elwood Blues, we wouldn't all be here tonight."
He's not a replacement, he's an addition.
@@Frankie-O Yes, I couldn't agree with you more. In fact I think Jim should have chosen to take over the role of Jake Blues, after all, he is family and he should carry on the old Belushi/Aykroyd team because John's character jake should never have died. I can imagine him in an alternate Blues Brothers 2000, Can you?
Please reply back ♥♥♥
Tbh, I think Belushi would’ve liked this beginning for a contribution.
You know, if they we're gonna make a sequel they could've at least Jim Belushi. You know as a "long lost brother" or something like that.
They tried but it would interfere with his other shows/movies.
Not A Doctor uh sweet heart two things, he’s name is John belushi and he passed away but if he was still alive when they made a shitty second movie I’m sure he would be in it otherwise it wouldn’t be SO SHIT I MEAN LIKE?! NO ONE ASK FOR A SECOND ITS BULLSHIT
they meant John's younger brother Jim
James wanted to be in this movie but other obligations kept him from doing so. He would have been Jake's long lost biological brother Zee, as he is in the Blues Brothers Band today.
LAγNA - Jim Belushi is John’s younger brother. Look it up. Not A Doctor knew what he was saying.......
Here’s how I envisioned the opening of this movie (with some alternate touches of course):
Universal Pictures Presents
A Bernie Brillstein / John Belushi Production
A Landis/Belzberg Film
James Belushi Dan Aykroyd John Goodman
Blues Brothers 2000
Joe Morton J Evan Bonifant Carries Fisher Aretha Franklin James Brown
Ray Charles B.B. King The Blues Brothers Band Nia Peeples Kathleen Freeman
Sam Moore Wilson Pickett Frank Oz Eddie Floyd Jonny Lang Steve Lawrence
Junior Wells Lonnie Brooks Blues Traveller Jeff Morris Shann Johnson
Olivia Newton John Andrew Lloyd Webber Julian Lloyd Webber Erykah Badu
Darrell Hammond and Dennis Hopper and Samuel L Jackson as Daniel and Mount
Casting Ross Clydesdale Joanna Colbert
Choreographer Barry Lather
Music Score By Elmer Bernstein
Songs Arranged By Paul Shaffer
Costume Designer Deborah Nadoolman
Associate Producer Grace Gilroy
Editor Dale Beldin
Production Designer Bill Brodie
Director of Photography David Herrington
Executive Producers Bernie Brillstein Oliva Newton John and James Belushi
Based on The Blues Brothers by Dan Aykroyd and John Landis
Story By Dan Aykroyd and Dave Thomas
Screenplay By Dan Aykroyd Timothy Harris and Hershal Weingrod
Produced By John Landis Dan Aykroyd and Leslie Belzberg
Directed By John Landis
Did he stand their two days
18 years is a long time to serve in jail for the things Elwood done
The beginning’s bloody depressing...
I've just discovered the movie (I didn't saw it from the release when I was like seven) and... Not as good as the first one but the opening get me.
It should be a law in film-making for sequels if a writer suggests "we should add a kid that acts like the main character" the answer is NO!.. aside from that, the rest wasn't horrific.
This movie gets too much hate. I love it more than the original, honestly.
Didn't like the movie, but the soundtrack kicks ass!
How one brother can't know the other one died never made any sense to me. Would they not write each other or one hear rumors about the other.
Exactly, friend.
"they're not the kind of guys who write letters" Jake says that in the 1st movie.
The flimsy excuse in the movie is that Jake got out before Elwood, but nobody told Elwood that Jake died.
Seen the original well over 400X. Know the dialogue chapter and verse. Saw this one once. Opening scene hurt too much to watch and the rest of it sucked. Original for me until I die.
agreed
why do you suppose they waited so long to tell Elwood about Jake?
They didn't know that Elwood didn't know.
@@elwoodjacobs4353 As an ex-con, I can attest to this. They would have assumed that Elwood would have known, but once Elwood stopped getting letters at some point when Jake (and Curtis) died, Elwood had no idea
@@fourniergangrene524 I'm sorry you had to experience that.
Cara canta muito hen !
The friendly confines...
I'm still pissed
.........that this even tried
the sequel should've never existed.
I like the sequel.
I agree, but thanks to the sequel, I heard the song Looking For A Fox!
What about the Louisiana gator boys
1:58 is the car a Volvo 240/260?
This sums up what’s wrong with the film it’s too sad. Half the double act is dead, the director is controversial after killing an actor, most people’s star had fallen. That being said it feels like they tried but it just doesn’t work. The soundtrack was good though
38k views? WTF
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Elwood
If they made the original in 1980 he be in jail for close to 40 years lol
Well it's called The Blues Brothers 2000 and it actually did come out 18 years after the original.
I thought this one was just as good as the original. I don't get the hate.
Damn - really weak opening scene when compared with that iconic opening from the original. They should have kept the same format.
This scene went over your head, apparently.....
@@paulzammataro7185 apparently not you pretentious nitwit - I'm not sure which movies you watch but this really isn't that deep! Just because his brother isn't with us doesn't excuse a lame opening. The movie could have opened with a bang and still paid respect to John.
@@Weird-City Paul must be one of those intellectuals. 🤪🤪🤪
Have to admit I didn’t like this movie, it was just too silly.