{"id":111,"date":"2020-09-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leoloves.quirki.co.uk\/?p=111"},"modified":"2020-08-25T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T10:01:05","slug":"on-a-mission-from-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/09\/18\/on-a-mission-from-god\/","title":{"rendered":"On A Mission From God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WARNING:<\/span> <\/strong>This Review Contains Spoilers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s talk about possibly the coolest films to come out of the 1980s (and then the 90s), and I\u2019m not talking The Matrix <\/em>style of cool \u2013 this is something very different. Introducing The Blues Brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similar Concept<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                This was something I was a little bit wary of going into with the Blues Brothers 2000 <\/em>is that the story and film were going to end up being the same as its predecessor. I\u2019m not saying it isn\u2019t the same underdog story as The Blues Brothers <\/em>but in a way I was actually glad about that. They both open with one of the brothers getting out of prison and they end up with a reason to make money \u2013 causing them both to decide to get the band back together \u2013 and we end up with all the calamity in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Car Calamity<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Being a band, The Blues Brothers spend the majority of both films on the road but a lot of the time they aren\u2019t alone. Having angered several people along the way, there is always someone chasing them, ranging from the police to Nazis (yes, I said Nazis). Destruction is a common outcome of any car chase but trashing a shopping centre, in the original film) takes it to a whole new level. Funny part about any of the damage caused in both films is that less of it is caused by the Blues Brothers than by the police themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Another important fact to mention, is that The Blues Brothers <\/em>once held the record for the most cars trashed in a single film \u2013 totalling at 103. This was then outdone by Blues Brothers 2000 <\/em>where they trashed 104 cars in total (yeah, one car more but it did the job). Understandably, this has since been surpassed \u2013 but it did take 19 years to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Memoriam<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                In the 18 years between The Blues Brothers <\/em>and Blues Brothers 2000<\/em>, unfortunately two of actors, whose characters were important to the plot of the original film, sadly passed away. John Belushi, who played Jake Blues, and Cab Calloway, who played Curtis, were unable to reprise their roles in the sequel film and I feel that Blues Brothers 2000 <\/em>handled this really sensitively. Look at it this way, in other film sequels if an actor has been unable to reprise their role they have replaced them with someone new like nothing had changed (take Iron Man<\/em> replacing Terrence Howard with Don Cheadle as EXACTLY the same character but let\u2019s act like no one can tell). Instead, we are actually told in the film that both Jake and Curtis had passed away in the time that Elwood was in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can\u2019t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Something I actually loved about Blues Brothers 2000 <\/em>is that they kept some of the same jokes as The Blues Brothers. <\/em>For example, when Elwood turns up to collect Jake from prison in the first film Jake lights his cigarette with the car-lighter before throwing it out of the window. In the sequel, an identical joke is played out only this time it is Elwood throwing the lighter away to prevent Buster from smoking. In addition to this, Sister Mary Stigmata is just as funny and bordering on scary as she is in the original film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name In Lights<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                It\u2019s become common place recently that singers are turning to acting, but that isn\u2019t to say that they\u2019ve been very good at it (the jury is out on Rihanna). However, the list of musical talent in both The Blues Brothers <\/em>and Blues Brothers 2000 <\/em>is endless. Take The Blues Brothers Band for example – outside of the lead actors, the rest are all made up of singer-songwriters and musicians. There are even acting cameos from Aretha Franklin (in both films) and Ray Charles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Conclusion<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                For a sequel that I was really pensive about watching, worrying that they were just going to rehash that original story, this was definitely not two hours wasted. I enjoyed Blue Brothers 2000 <\/em>just as much as I enjoy The Blues Brothers <\/em>every time I watch it. So if you like good music and want to be nearly crying with laughter at the simplest humour \u2013 these films are definitely for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers Let\u2019s talk about possibly the coolest films to come out of the 1980s (and then the 90s), and I\u2019m not talking The Matrix style of cool \u2013 this is something very different. Introducing The Blues Brothers. Similar Concept                 This was something I was a little bit wary of going … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-once-more-unto-the-breach-sequels","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}