15 Incredibly Late Sequels That Took Decades To Arrive

12. Blues Brothers: 2000 - 18 Years

The Previous Film: The Blues Brothers (1980) The Blues Brothers was the film that made Dan Aykroyd a movie star, although it's legacy is much stronger than that. An utterly ridiculous movie that juggles trying to save a Catholic orphanage with plenty of relentless car chases, it's the best film to have been based on a Saturday Night Live sketch (take that MacGruber). The Late Sequel: Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) Produced at a time when the new millennium seemed so cool slapping it on the end of movie titles was a trend in of itself, Blues Brothers 2000 felt like a very different film to the original. The orphanage was gone and John Goodman's Mack had replaced John Belushi's Joliet following the latter's tragic death. There were still car chases though. Was It Worth The Wait? The hardest genre to sequelise is comedy and Blues Brothers 2000 highlights why. The gap has led to way too much time over-thinking the story and the jokes just don't land like they did in 1980. The music was still quite good.