Before meeting up with Willie, Elwood asks to be dropped off to see Mother Mary Stigmata who is now working at a hospital after the orphanage was closed.

Against Stigmata's advice, Elwood tracks Cabel down at his police headquarters to inform him of his real father and asks him to join The Blues Brothers Band, which he plans on reforming.

Willie runs a strip club and joins after it is burned down by the Russian mafia because Elwood enlisted the help of Willie's barman, "Mighty" Mack McTeer, to try and convince them to leave the club alone, by getting two of the mobsters drunk and leaving them bound and gagged in an alley.

While avoiding the police, Elwood interrupts a militia group meeting, unintentionally destroying their boat full of explosives they planned to use.

Before Cabel can arrest them, he has an epiphany brought on by Reverend Cleophus that he should join the band instead of being a police officer.

After the battle, the show is interrupted by the arrival of the Russian mafia and militia group from earlier; they are turned into rats by Queen Mousette.

When Mother Mary Stigmata arrives, Elwood uses the performance as cover to say goodbye to Cabel and Mack and escape with Buster, with the police giving chase.

Kathleen Freeman, Frank Oz, Steve Lawrence and Jeff Morris appeared in cameos,[3] all reprising their roles from the original film.

Nia Peeples portrays a state police officer, Darrell Hammond a militia member, John Lyons a Russian thug, and Paul Shaffer as Queen Moussette's majordomo.

But Danny had been performing with John Goodman and Jimmy Belushi and the band, and he said, "You know, this is great, because this music is recognized now—let's do a movie."

That was a strange experience, because the first thing they said was that it had to be PG, which meant they couldn't use profanity, which is basically cutting the Blues Brothers' nuts off.

But due to an already existing television deal (he had been cast in the ABC drama Total Security), he was unable to appear and the script was altered to include Cab Blues (Joe Morton).

This character was named Cabel as an homage to Cab Calloway, who died four years prior to the film's release.

Several cast members from the original film reprised their roles, including Frank Oz, Jeff Morris, Steve Lawrence, Kathleen Freeman, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown.

The website's consensus reads: "Braving onward without the late John Belushi, Blues Brothers 2000 gets the band back together with a spirited soundtrack, but a mission that's far less divine.

[9] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it two out of four stars, writing, "Blues Brothers 2000 has a lot of good music in it.

[11] Despite the poor reception, Aykroyd remained proud of the film, saying in a 2024 interview with Rolling Stone, "the second movie’s a small-g good accompaniment to the first.

The plot involves Elwood as the main character going through different chapters and levels while trying to save the kidnapped members of the band one by one.