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BLUES
BROTHERS 2000 |
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Director:
John Landis
Genre:
Comedy
Release date: 6 February 1998
Cast: Dan Aykroyd,
John Goodman, Joe Morton, Evan Bonifant, Steve
Cropper
Erykah as: Queen
Mousette |
The plot
Blues Brothers 2000 picks up 18 years
after The Blues Brothers, with Elwood being
released from prison, this time a rather high-tech
private prison rather than the old Illinois state prison
depicted in the first film. He learns that his brother,
Jake (John Belushi) has died, along with their surrogate
father figure Curtis (Cab Calloway), and that the
orphanage the two had saved in the first film is no more;
however he is told of a half brother (of sorts). The
"half brother" is the illegitimate son of
Curtis, named Cabel "Cab" Chamberlain (Joe
Morton). Cab is a chief in the police force and refuses
to reunite with or support Elwood, a habitual criminal.
Elwood takes a job as an announcer in a nightclub (A
strip club owned by the drummer of the Blues Brothers
band), where he discovers that the bartender (played by
John Goodman) has singing talent, while getting on the
bad side of the Russian mafia who have been demanding
payoffs from the nightclub. After the Russian mafia burns
down the club, Elwood resolves to put the band back
together once again with John Goodman's character as his
new partner and a 10-year old orphan named Buster (J.
Evan Bonifant) also tagging along. The band travels to
several locations shown in the first film with a
depiction of how they have changed in the intervening
years (Bob's Country Bunker for example is now Bob's
Country Kitchen, a family restaurant). As well as
upsetting the mafia, Elwood also falls foul of a "white
power group" and the police force, headed by a
zealous Cab. Finally, the band heads south to Louisiana
with the intention of entering a battle of the bands held
at the home of a voodoo practitioner named Queen
Moussette, played by Erykah Badu. At the
battle of the bands they compete against B.B. King's band.
Ironically, the B. B. King's character started the band
only after Elwood bought a police car from him in the
beginning of the film.

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