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Blues Brothers 2000

1998

John Landis

Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Joe Morton, J. Evan Bonifant ...

5.2

4,643

Musical. Comedy Upon his release from prison, now-brotherless Blues Brother Jake Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) puts the band back together with the help of a golden-voiced strip joint bartender (John Goodman) and a precocious 10-year-old orphan (J. Evan Bonifant) on loan from the comically abusive Sister Mary Stigmata (Kathleen Freeman).

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Blues Brothers 2000' has a lot of good music in it. It would have had more if they'd left out the story, which would have been an excellent idea (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Lawrence Van Gelder The New York Times	"[A] disposable plot (...) The movie only really comes alive when the music plays and people sing and dance."	NEU
United Kingdom	Adam Smith Empire	"This is a warmed-up corpse of a movie, having neither the courage to do anything new or the wit to make a joke out of its own unoriginality (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"A sluggishly paced, fitfully funny followup (...) The anarchic exuberance that propelled the original is in disappointingly short supply"	NEU
United States	Paul Tatara CNN	"What we've ended up with is somnambulant performances, no plot momentum (or no plot at all), and two rich white guys pretending to be soulful."	NEG
United Kingdom	Tom Charity Time Out	"As before, the best thing is the music: Aretha Franklin, Sam Moore, James Brown. The rest is stale, cynical and hamfisted."	NEU
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"'Blues Brothers 2000' is certainly not the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but I’d have a hard time thinking of a movie that’s less essential, or that has less of a reason to exist."	NEG

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