Blues Brothers 2000
Short description
Elwood Blues leaves prison after eighteen years and finds that much has changed: his brother Jake has died, the band has fallen apart, and the orphanage where he grew up is gone. With the help of a bartender named Mighty Mack McTeer and a young boy, Buster, Elwood sets out to put a new band together. His aim is to compete in a Battle of the Bands contest while staying ahead of the police, including a half-brother of his late bandmate who has joined the force.
The film is a musical crime comedy directed by John Landis, the seventeenth of the eighteen features he has directed, following The Stupids and preceding Burke & Hare. Landis wrote the screenplay with Dan Aykroyd, and both also produced. Aykroyd returns as Elwood, with John Goodman as Mack, Joe Morton as Cab Chamberlain, Frank Oz as the warden, J. Evan Bonifant as Buster and B.B. King as Malvern Gasperon. The credited cast runs to 136 names and the running time is 123 minutes.
Against a budget of 28 million dollars, the film took about 14 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds a rating of 4.9 from 34,440 votes, and on TMDB 5.3 from 759 votes. A critics' rating of 5.1 from 48 reviews places it in similar territory to the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- 100 police cars are involved in the resulting chase.
- To reprise the role of Elwood, which he had previously played in John Landis's 'The Blues Brothers' (1980), Dan Aykroyd lost 40 kg.
- The list of reasons that Dan Aykroyd's character recites for seeing things through ends with the name Robert K. Weiss. He was a studio executive who convinced Landis and Aykroyd not to abandon the film. Both were completely unimpressed with the script and expected the film to be a failure.
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