Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) on Netflix
PG-1319982h 3mActionComedyCrime
Released from prison, Elwood Blues learns his brother Jake has died and that Curtis fathered a son, Cabel Chamberlain. He sets out to rebuild the Blues Brothers Band with the orphan Buster.
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Plot summary
Elwood Blues leaves prison after eighteen years and finds that his brother Jake has died, that the orphanage where he grew up has closed, and that Curtis, his father figure, has died too. Mother Mary Stigmata now works at a hospital, and she has news: Curtis had a son, Cabel Chamberlain, a commander in the Illinois State Police. She also asks him to mentor Buster, a boy with no family. Elwood goes to police headquarters to tell Cabel about his father and to offer him a place in a reformed Blues Brothers Band. Cabel throws him out. On the road with Buster, Elwood begins tracking down the old musicians, among them the drummer Willie Hall and the barman Mack McTeer.
Cast
- Junior Wellsas Junior Wells
- Walter Levineas Same Guard
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- John Landis said Universal gutted the script he and Dan Aykroyd wrote by insisting on a PG rating, which stripped out the profanity that had given the R-rated original its voice; that first film had no nudity or violence, only language.
- The pile-up staged after Dan Aykroyd's Elwood tells the band "Don't look back" used 63 cars and put the film in the Guinness Book of Records for the biggest car pile-up, taking the record from the 1980 original.
- Jim Belushi was to have played Brother Zee Blues but was tied up by his ABC series Total Security, so the script was rewritten around Joe Morton's Cab Blues, whose full name Cabel Chamberlain nods to Cab Calloway.
- Paul Shaffer, the band's original keyboardist, had missed the 1980 film because of Gilda Radner's Broadway show. Here he took a week off Letterman, with Warren Zevon covering for him, and shaved his head for the part, keeping the look for good.
- Asked by John Landis who could follow the original's line-up of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, James Brown, Cab Calloway and John Lee Hooker, the answer was everyone else: the sequel carries 18 musical numbers against the first film's five.
