YMMV / Blues Brothers 2000

• Audience-Alienating Premise: 2000 was never gonna be able to overcome the massive issue of only having one of the two Blues Brothers. Undoing the first movie's ending by having the orphanage be closed down anyway during the Time Skip just seems to be the cherry on top.
• Awesome Music:
  • Say what you will about the sequel, but there's no denying Aretha Franklin's cover of the song that made her famous is amazing.
  • Anything by The Louisiana Gator Boys is hard to beat. They have Eric Clapton! And B.B. King. And Bo Diddley. And Dr. John. Steve Winwood. Billy Preston! Charlie Musselwhite. Koko Taylor. And numerous others.
  • When the band is cornered at the state fair and perform a haunting rendition of "Ghost Riders In The Sky".
    • It's so awesome it summons undead cowboys on giant Hellish Horses chasing skeletal cattle across the sky! it's quite possibly the most awesome scene ever put on film!
  • 634-5789 with Wilson Pickett and Funky Nassau are also quite catchy.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Sequelitis version. Especially due to the Happy Ending Override.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • A Russian gangster promises one of his comrades that they will, eventually, drink vodka from Elwood's skull. Made funnier by the fact that Mr. Aykroyd now has a vodka brand which comes... in a bottle... shaped like a skull. There are even skull-shaped shot glasses available!
• Just Here for Godzilla: Blues Brothers 2000 is worth watching for the musical numbers, and not much else.
• The Problem with Licensed Games: There was, believe it or not, a Blues Brothers 2000 game for the Nintendo 64. It was released in the actual year 2000, right at the tail end of the 64's life cycle and two whole years after the film's disastrous box office run. The handful of people who actually bought this game got nothing but a run-of-the-mill 3D platformer with Elwood running around Chicago, and the final boss was just one long rhythm mini-game. Not only a bad game, but a bafflingly pointless one.
• Replacement Scrappy: Three new Blues Brothers join Elwood in Blues Brothers 2000, and none of them is a sufficient replacement for Belushi... but their singing is pretty damn good.
  Elwood to Mack: You can sing, man!
  • Some folks actually thought Mighty Mack (John Goodman's character) came close, but lacked the sarcastic charm of Jake's character.
  • Given how iconic Belushi was in the role, it's arguable that anyone who tried to fill his shoes would have found themselves facing this trope.
• Sequelitis: Blues Brothers 2000 is generally considered inferior to the original, mostly because (as described above) John Belushi's shoes were very hard to fill. It also suffers from a story that takes some unnecessarily weird turns and a weaker script with clunkier humor compared to the original, but it does have some truly great musical numbers, which just might be enough to redeem it for blues fans.
• So Okay, It's Average: To some, 2000 isn't really all that horrible and still a fun romp with some great musical numbers. Some even liked John Goodman as the foil, citing that while he's no John Belushi, he does compliment Aykroyd and the two have good chemistry that could've been more polished in the writing. Most also point out that the first half of the film does at least hold up well enough (Mighty Mack joining, pissing off the Russian mob, getting the band back together again with some funny callbacks, some of the road trip, the county fair, etc...), but it unfortunately putters out in the second half near the climax as it starts to get a bit too nonsensical with its plot.
• Special Effects Failure:
  • It's pretty clear that all the computers in Mr. Pickett's office are unplugged and their screens are just sheets pasted on the monitors.
  • When Queen Mousette turns Elwood, Mac and Cal into zombies, they are obviously digitally colored green instead of having their skin painted over.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The opening to Blues Brothers 2000. Elwood is released from prison after 18 years, and unaware that Jake has passed away in the interim, waits outside for a day and a night for his brother to pick him up. When a corrections officer breaks the news, all he can do is bow his head in sorrow. This all scored by a haunting acapella rendition of "John the Revelator" sung by Taj Mahal.
  • After Elwood's reaction to both Jake and Curtis's deaths, it's clear that his entire quest in the second film is to try and recapture the spirit of his last great adventure.
  • The fact that the orphanage closed, despite all their hard work.
• Viewer Name Confusion: Mighty Mack is sometimes mistakenly called Big Mack.