a big surprise to me .
the good trailer had hinted that they pulled the impossible off , but making a blues brothers movie without jake blues ( john belushi ) is such a dumb idea i really had no hope .
they replaced him just fine .
not with john goodman , he didn’t do much of anything , but with the brilliant actor joe morton , who can really sing .
the fourth blues brother is j evan bonifant , who’s ten .
this was another of my fears for the film , but he’s a really good dancer , and plays a mean harmonica ( although he may have been dubbed ) .
things that intellectually had bothered me before , like no mission from god , everyone being richer , it not being filmed in chicago — gave me no problems at all .
i’m quite pleased that there were less car pile-ups , because they meant less music , and john landis seems to have lost interest in the whole thing .
there’s a few early crashes , and then one huge pile-up , but after that it all stops .
it’s just the music .
one of my problems with the first is that cab calloway’s song is so good the actually blues brothers look dull after him , but there’s no problems with this .
the music is all as good as ever , tons of great musicians showing up — with the exception of johnny lang , who can’t sing , all the musicians do a great job .
the only real problems i had was the special effects .
these were superfluous and a waste of money .
since the film isn’t doing very well , they could mean we have no possibility of another sequel , which i want to see .
the bluegrass version of riders in the sky is even better than rawhide .
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