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[Meet Bale Barletta]

Blues Brothers 2000 is a 1998 American musical comedy film that is a sequel to 1980's The Blues Brothers, written and produced by John Landis and Dan Aykroyd. Directed by Landis, the film stars Aykroyd and John Goodman, with cameos by many musicians. 18 years after the events in the previous film, Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) is being released from prison, this time a modern private prison rather than the old Joliet Prison Illinois state penitentiary of his brother Joliet Jake's previous incarceration. He is told for the first time that his brother "Joliet" Jake Blues (John Belushi) has died, as has their surrogate father figure Curtis (Cab Calloway), then finds out that the orphanage the Blues Brothers had saved has been demolished.

Elwood does discover a second brother (of sorts). The illegitimate son of Curtis, his name is Cabel "Cab" Chamberlain (Joe Morton). Cab has no knowledge of Curtis or the Blues brothers or their band up until Elwood comes into his life. Cab is a commander in the Illinois State Police. Elwood asks Cab to loan him $500 for a car, but when Elwood tells him about the band and invites him to join, Cab goes mad and responds by throwing him out. But 10-year-old orphan Buster (J. Evan Bonifant), who's been assigned to Elwood by Mother Mary (formerly chief nun at the St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage, where Jake and Elwood grew up, now the hospital it's become), steals the commander's wallet on Elwood's behalf.

Elwood purchases a used police squad car (a 1990 Ford LTD Crown Victoria) at a lot owned by Malvern Gasperon (B.B. King), who says he is leaving the business to move to New Orleans and try something else. Elwood drives to a strip club owned by the drummer of the Blues Brothers band, Willie Hall, and becomes master of ceremonies on stage. He discovers two things—that the Russian mafia has been demanding payoffs from Willie, and that the helpful bartender, Mack McTeer (John Goodman), can also sing. Elwood strikes a deal with Mack: Mack will help him getting the Russians to leave Willie and his club alone by getting their two errand boys drunk and leaving them in an alley, devoid of their clothes, bound and gagged, (but not their wallets or watches, as later revealed when they are retrieved by their bosses); in return, Mack will sing at the club. The Russians break into the club and burn it down (almost killing Elwood and Mack in the process), leaving Elwood, Mack and Willie unemployed.

In the aftermath of the fire, Elwood reunites the band. "Mighty" Mack is the new lead vocalist, with young Buster joining in on backup vocals and harmonica. The band's former musicians have moved on; guitarist Matt 'Guitar' Murphy and his respect-demanding wife (Aretha Franklin) now run a Mercedes dealership, following the closure of the refectory they ran in the previous film, with saxophonist 'Blue' Lou Marini still tagging along despite his uselessness, whilst keyboardist and pianist Murphy 'Murph' Dunne works in telesales. The other guitarist Steve 'The Colonel' Cropper and bassist Donald 'Duck' Dunn work as radio presenters, with trombonist Tom 'Bones' Malone as a technician. But once again the guys are willing to drop everything to go back on the road - that is, except for trumpeter Alan 'Mr. Fabulous' Rubin, now working as a funeral director and refusing to join the band, until Elwood makes some very loud and very rude noises during a Russian mob funeral.

The band travels to several familiar locations from the past and discover how they have changed (for example, Bob's Country Bunker was converted into Bob's Country Kitchen, a family restaurant). Booking agent Maury Sline sends them to an outdoor gig in Cynthiana, Kentucky, lying that they are actually the "Bluegrass" Brothers. Law enforcement officers are there waiting, including Cab and his top lieutenant (Nia Peeples), but again the band is able to escape. As well as being on the Russian mobsters' hit list, Elwood also falls foul of a white supremacist militia group led by Mr. Robertson (Darrell Hammond), disrupting their private rally and destroying a boat filled with explosives. They and the police continue to pursue the band, which, thanks to Sline, is now on its way to Louisiana to compete in a battle of the bands. However, the Bluesmobile runs out of gas, and the boys want to quit. Initially defeated, Buster tells Elwood to give a motivational speech. He does, and the band follows him in walking to the competition - except for Blue Lou, who goes to get gas for the car.

At a revival meeting presided over by Rev. Cleophus James (James Brown), an old friend of Elwood, the band is cornered by the zealous and law-abiding Cab and appear to be on their way to jail. But under a spell, Cab suddenly "sees the light" and becomes a Blues Brother, trading in his police uniform for a black suit, a black hat and sunglasses. Everyone heads south to the mansion of a voodoo practitioner named Queen Moussette (Erykah Badu) for the Battle of the Bands. There she transforms the Blues Brothers into zombies for a while, but returns them to life in time to compete against the Louisiana Gator Boys, a gigantic super-group fronted by Malvern Gasperon.

During the band battle, the Russians and the racists turn up, but Queen Moussette deals with them in her own unique way by turning them into rats. Mother Mary Stigmata from the orphanage (Kathleen Freeman) and the Illinois police have arrived as well, making Buster fear that he will be taken away from the band and into child protective custody. Elwood sneaks him out a back door and together they hit the road. What happens after this is never revealed. The film was originally intended to include Brother Zee Blues (Jim Belushi, brother of John Belushi). But due to an already existing television deal (Belushi had been cast in the ABC drama Total Security), Belushi was unable to appear and the script was altered to include Cab Blues (Joe Morton). This character was named Cabel as an homage to Cab Calloway, who died four years prior to the film's release. (His character Curtis was revealed to have died in the film along with Jake.)

The band's original keyboardist, Paul Shaffer, had been committed to Gilda Radner's one-woman show on Broadway and therefore unable to appear in the first film. He was replaced by actor-musician Murphy Dunne. Shaffer does appear in Blues Brothers 2000, taking a week off from Late Show with David Letterman to film his role as Queen Moussette's aide, emcee of the battle of the bands. (Warren Zevon took his place that week on Letterman's show). Shaffer shaved his head for the role, a change in appearance he chose to keep permanently.

During the Funky Nassau number, Shaffer in his character as "Marco" asks to cut in on keyboards, which Murph allows. This marks the first on-screen time that the Blues Brothers Band plays with the original keyboardist.

Several cast members from the first film reprised their characters, including Frank Oz, Jeff Morris, Steve Lawrence, Kathleen Freeman, Aretha Franklin and James Brown.
Blues Brothers 2000 received mixed reviews, averaging a 45% positive rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 44 reviews,[3] and a D score on EW.com.[4] Roger Ebert gave the film 2 stars, saying, "The film is lame comedy surrounded by high-energy blues (and some pop, rock and country music)."

MackleNG responds:

NEVER SPEAK OF THAT MOVIE AGAIN

[Thorn]

Hello there. Im here to enquire about a possible T-shirt. Please, that would be nice.

Charongess responds:

Shirts are definitely a possibility, but I need to do more research on companies I'd go through. Thanks for your interest though!

[I zombie]

Putrid.

[Love robot]

Ready to Kill. No Rest for the Wicked

Miroko responds:

Indeed.

[Robotic Messiah]

All of the details in this are too fucking overwhelming. Fallout, Akira, Kingdom Hearts, Futurama, The Simpsons, SleepyCabin, even the little "cut here" on the wrist was spot on. To say you put emphasis on immaculacy is a complete and utter understatement my friend. While I hoped the competition this year was going to be so tough that it would hinder your chances of winning, again, after seeing this in al of its mechanized, brutally destructive glory, I feel that the chances are quite slim. The bar has been raised with tallest arm of your mighty robot, good sir.

Good luck to you and all other contestants. May the best man win and God have mercy on you all!

deathink responds:

Well said my man. And thank you very much!

[Render unto Shädman]

Praise to the Fatherland.

[KidSquid]

Oh blimey, this is fantastic. Still haven't played the game , it seems quite silly, however this is still great. I especially love the dripping background and he pose that the squid girl is standing in. Absolutely brilliant job, keep up the good work, my friend.

[Molly the OC of the Day]

Hold on a moment, what colour is that hair. It's an awesome colour, trademark it before someone steals it. I want my hair that colour. But apart from that, this person seems cool, put her in a funny cartoon, expand the mythos and create a new realm of story telling.

This is awesome, keep up making the good art and animation, thank you.

RyanStorm responds:

The hair color, hmmm the first thing I can thing of is blue cotton candy.
I can't really think of an idea for a personality for her, so I don't really know if she'll be in some sketches or sequences or something.
But anyway, thank you so much dude!

[sighs]

Woah, this is cool. How do you paint like that? Jesus, I need to practise more. Anyway, beautiful job on this. I especially love the lighting on the arm and hair. And, once again O Triumphant, your anatomy is on point.

This is cool, thank you for making it.