Elwood must reunite the old band, with a few new members, and go on another "Mission from God." Elwood, the now lone "Blues Brother" finally released from prison, is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Once again hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops, led by Cabel the Curtis' son (and Elwood's step-brother), the Russian Mafia, and a militia group. On his new "mission from God" Elwood enlists the help of a young orphan, and a strip club bartender. as i watched this i assumed that when Dan Aykroyd and John Landis wrote this they didn't worry much about the plot and focused more on the music, because its great! James Brown, Aretha Franklyn and of course the Blues brothers themselves were good, even though there was no John nor Jim Belushi. tons of other performers pop up as well, such as BB King, Erykah Badu, Paul Shaffer, Eric Floyd, Wilson Picket, Blues Traveler, Sam Moore and many others, but don't really add much to the story, which has Elwood (Akroyd) released from prison bringing the band back together one last time, along with new members, to enter a Battle of the bands contest, once again chased by the cops as well as a Russian mafia. It was kinda cool to see some of the old band members have new jobs, Willie has a strip club, Steve and Donald are radio DJS, and so forth, but that doesn't forgive the weak plot, which just rehashed the first movie, and the car chases, while good at first went on a little too long. the acting was OK, Akroyd as Elwood got annoying, John Goodman as Mighty Mac was good, but no John Belushi. Joe Morton was OK as Cab, the cop who turns out to be Curtis's son, and J Evan Bonifant was OK as Buster, an orphan who follows Elwood around.<br/><br/>Overall good music, weak plot I loved the original, what happened here?? Total rehashes, the car chases sucked. The music was bad. Goodman replacing Belushi? That makes me want to spit. Where are the awesome chases, the comedy, the awesome music? Arg, this is awful, I had to fastforward a ton of boring songs. Horrible movie, do not watch it. Rated PG13 for language and should be fine for anyone. Gets a 2/10 on my scale.
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