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• Macaulay Culkin was considered for the role of Buster.
  
  
• The telephone booth that Elwood goes in has graffiti on it that reads "Max" and "Rachel", the names of director John Landis's children.
  
  
• The list of names that Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) gives as a reason to not quit ends with Robert K. Weiss, the studio executive who convinced Aykroyd and Landis not to quit the film.
  
  
• When the Russians roll their car, they get out and one of them says "They broke my watch!" in Russian. This is in reference to a running gag in the first Blues Brothers movie, where a cop is heard complaining that "They broke my watch!" after every major pile-up, beginning with the cop roll and slide in the mall chase.
  
  
• Is in the 2000 Guinness Book of World Records for having the most car crashes in a motion picture.
  
  
• James Belushi was originally set to co-star with Aykroyd and Goodman, but couldn't, due to scheduling conflicts.
  
  
• Both Blues Brothers movies begin with a song by Taj Mahal ("She Caught The Katy" in The Blues Brothers (1980) and "John The Revelator" in this film).
  
  
• In one scene, Cab ('Joe Morton') mentions that when the Blues Brothers last performed anywhere, they caused, among other things, damages costing $24 million, which was the budget of the original The Blues Brothers (1980)
  
  
• When the Blues Brothers are playing "Ghost Riders In the Sky" at the bluegrass festival, we can hear Elwood say "Duck, give me a mountain tempo in A minor". In the first Blues Brothers film, when they need to play country music, and decide on "Theme from Rawhide", someone in the band asks "What key?", and Duck Dunn answers: "A. Good country key, A."
  
  
• Cab Chamberlain, played by 'Joe Morton', has the same first name as the musician Cab Calloway, who played Curtis in the The Blues Brothers (1980). Cab Chamberlain is the biological son of Curtis. It would seem that 'Joe Mortons'' character is named after Calloway in his honor.
  
  
• The "new" Bluesmobile is a 1991 Ford LTD Crown Victora.
  
  
• Dan Aykroyd reportedly lost 90 lbs to reprise the role of Elwood Blues.
  
  
• Wally High's last film.
  
  
• Rated #4 in Entertainment Weekly's Top 25 Worst Sequels Ever Made (2008).
  
  
• Just before "Ghost Riders in the Sky", the emcee of the festival introduces the final car stunt performer as "Dare-devil driver star, Rick Avery". Rick Avery was the stunt coordinator for this film.
  
  

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