THE MUSIC!!

Amen, J! After a month where "Date Movie", ”When a Stranger Calls”, and Steve Martin's "Pink Panther" are box-office champions (proving once again it is impossible to make a movie too bad and too tasteless for the American public, as long as the ad budget is big enough) "BB 2000" suddenly begins to look close to "Singin’ in the Rain".
And to all those who keep comparing this to the original “Blues Brothers”: Go take a look at that again. That is never going to win any prize for screenwriting, and no-body cared then or now. It was hardly the point, then or now. How many noticed the story line in any Astaire and Rogers musical? (Are all these comparisons too arcane?)
This sequel easily equals the first for music, and it’s not greatly surpassed by many. Sure the acting is...well, spotty. Most of these people are musicians, not actors. And anyone who has time to really worry about the storyline must be pitifully tone-deaf, and he or she has my deepest sympathy, they’re missing a lot. Could the problem be that this has no bubble-gum pop or gansta rap?

I don't think I've ever seen it from the beginning, but I remember when I saw the end and just about spazzed. So much awesome in one movie music-wise.

In the end, the music makes it so worth it.

I wholeheartedly agree, this film has an amazing soundtrack.

An old roommate of mine made an arguement that the Blues Brothers is a story that shows how music completes ones soul. In the first movie, while in jail, everything is very bland. You can get the feeling the 3 years Elwood spent in the joint were very long and boring. The BB decide to put the band back together again while in church, listening to a Gospel. Only while they are playing their music are they able to elude everybody. They were on a mission from g-d, and their mission was to play music. After getting out of jail, Jake, after spending 20 years in the joint, wants to find music again, and thus his soul. That's about as complex as it needs to get.

The sequal was just like the story of a Bluesman. They always fall on tough times, new problems always seem to be similar to the previous problems, but they keep going on and playing about it. The story was very weak, but you can't exactly be on a mission to save an orphange again, so you are on a mission to save an orphan. You can't add much more diversity to such a simple charactor, but you can add a lot more to his music over time, which is what happens to bluesmen who keep going through tough times.

It was a true sequel about a blues musician. Same old story, but the music gets better with time.