today and after eighteen long year and elwood blue have finally pay his debt to society and be be release from prison . after be escort outside and he stand beside the road and eagerly await his brother jake to pick him up . several hour go by and jake have not arrive . elwood wait until the next morning and when the warden finally come out and tell him the awful news represent jake have pass away . elwood receive a ride home from matara and a colleague of his old bandmember willie . once back in town and elwood go to malvern gasperon use car lot and set his site on a classic police cruiser and similar to the one he have in the last adventure . but it be gon na cost $ 500 and which he do not have . next and elwood visit mother mary stigma at the new orphanage and since the old one have long since be demolish . right away and elwood learns that his old buddy curtis have die . he also learn that curtis have an illegitimate son . that also when elwood meet a young and sarcastic orphan name buster . mother mary want elwood to spend some time with the youngster whether he want to or not . elwood attempt to ditch the kid and though unsuccessfully and and seek out curtis son . he find him at the police station . he be commander cabel cab chamberlain . elwood introduce himself and then tell his sort of brother that he be think of put the band back together and ask if he would like to join . he also ask to borrow $ 500 for a car . but cab have the good on elwood and his late brother jake . he refuse and and personally kick him out of the office . outside and buster pick his pocket and give the wallet to elwood and which ironically contain $ 500 . so and elwood purchase the police cruiser then he and buster go for a very slow cruise . they stop off at willie strip club to try and convince willie rejoin the band . willie be hesitant and because the russian mafia be watch him . but and elwood and the bartender and mack mcteer and bound and gag two russian mobster and leave them in the alley . this do not sit well with their leader and who demand vengeance against elwood and willie while elwood give mack an opportunity to perform at the club and see he have talent . just then and the russian arrive and shoot up the club and then torch it . luckily all the stripper and patron and matara and elwood and mack and willie and buster escape in time . mack and willie join the band . next and elwood track down the other member of the band represent matt guitar murphy and donald duck dunne and tom bone malone and murph and mr. fabulous and and blue lou marini and and in his own crude and crass way and convince them to rejoin . elwood even have mack and buster fit with their own blue suit . now and all they need be a gig . unbeknownst to them and the illinois state police and the russian mafia be after them . maury sline and their old booking agent and manage to book them a gig at a county fair in kentucky and and and an opportunity to play at queen mousette battle of the band at her club in louisiana . so and elwood and mack and buster in the new bluesmobile and and the band in tow and hit the road . always manage to stay one step ahead of a furious cab and the entire illinois police force . they play at the fair in kentucky and but learn they want a bluegrass band and and not a blue band . so they play bluegrass and blue style . all the while cab and the cop watch the stage and but monster truck and a storm prove the perfect distraction while the blue brother and the band manage to elude the cop at a local tent revival and with the reverend cleophus james . when cab arrive and something extraordinary happen . it be a miracle and some say . he have a revelation . his destiny become clear . he don a nifty blue outfit and join the band . but the rest of the police force weren not buy it and so they chase the blue brother band all the way to louisiana where they compete in queen mousette battle of the band and lose to the louisiana gator boy . well before long and elwood and the gang find themselves surround by every cop in a thousand mile radius and as well a the russian mafia . and bad of all and mother mary stigma . there be nothing left to do but run . buster have a plan . while mack and cab create a diversion on stage and elwood and buster make a run for it in the bluesmobile follow by a very long cavalcade of police car . blue brother 2000 what can i say . it be pretty good . it start off very properly with a proper dedication to john belushi and cab calloway and john candy . dan aykroyd return a elwood blue and everyone favorite crafty blue con . john goodman be on board a mighty mack mcteer . joe morton be cab . j. evan bonifant be buster . frank oz return a the warden . and the late kathleen freeman return a mary stigma . familiar face aretha franklin and james brown be here too . belushi absence from this film be definitely noticeable and but i think it good they make elwood a more central character and since in the original it be obvious jake be the central character . they give elwood a chance to build . but personally and this wasn not much of a sequel and but rather a rehash of the first film . but if you like the first film and would like to see a jazzy update and then blue brother 2000 be for you . i recommend it . like they say and the lord work in mysterious way .