10 Movie Sequels With The Most Shocking Drops In Quality

Blues Brothers 2000 has a ludicrous amount of musical talent making appearances, from Aretha Franklin to James Brown, to B.B. King, to Bo Diddley, to Eric Clapton, to Erykah Badu, to Isaac Hayes, to Clarence Clemons of E Street fame, and plenty, plenty more.

Even with such a collection of musical icons, though, Blues Brothers 2000 is a heck of a slog to sit through.

Given how John Belushi had passed away 16 years prior to Blues Brothers 2000, that left the film a massive uphill task to somehow fill its Belushi-shaped void. John Goodman did his best as "Mighty" Mack McTeer, but there was no getting past the fact that bringing the Blues Brothers back just didn't work without the presence of Belushi's Jake Blues. Also, there was no particular clamour for a Blues Brothers sequel 18 years after the original movie was released.

In terms of narrative, the Belushi hole was addressed by Jake having died while Elwood Blues was in prison. With Dan Aykroyd's Elwood now a free man, his mission to put the band back together takes in Russian gangsters, militia groups, and voodoo, but the whole thing just feels so utterly pointless.