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Taxi (2004)

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Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 105
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 94

Silly and unfunny remake of a French movie of the same name.

19

Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 22

Silly and unfunny remake of a French movie of the same name.

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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 167,259

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Movie Info

An inept cop suddenly gets a new partner in the person of a cabbie with attitude in this high-rolling comedy. Washburn (Jimmy Fallon) is a police officer who becomes the laughingstock of the department after a series of traffic accidents cause him to lose his driver's license. One day, Washburn gets an urgent call to head out to the location of a bank robbery; unable to drive himself there, he hails a cab. As it happens, the taxi is being driven by Belle (Queen Latifah), a single mom who, after

PG-13, 1 hr. 37 min.

Action & Adventure, Comedy

Jim Kouf, Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant

Feb 15, 2005

$36.5M

20th Century Fox

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All Critics (112) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (96) | DVD (24)

I expected this to be much funnier: Latifah coasts on her charm, and Fallon seems incapable of playing an actual character.

February 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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Taxi is one of those madcap comedies where they show all those wacky bloopers during the closing credits to show you how much fun everyone had on the set. Maybe that's because they were in denial.

October 11, 2004 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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Goes nowhere fast.

October 7, 2004 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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Taxi runs out of fuel after the opening credits.

October 7, 2004 Full Review Source: Newsday | Comment
Newsday
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Corny, but it grows on you.

October 7, 2004 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Comment
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Fallon takes off on a few good funny-man flights.

October 7, 2004 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Comment
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Think twice before hailing this Taxi.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

A laid-back, inoffensive time-waster.

September 23, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Take the bus instead.

October 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | Comment
Dark Horizons

It would take a tankerload of laughing gas to pump some humour into this flat-tyred fiasco.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

While Taxi is certainly full of faults that would be hard for most good actors to overcome, Fallon provides the fatal blow himself by being the least interesting part of a pretty paltry movie.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

It's got suped up autos, suped up models, and suped up action. Fairly safe to say that it'll appeal to it's target audience, wethinks?

April 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Among all the extras, I could find no trailer for Taxi, but I imagine that if I had, it would have been just about as much as I would have liked seeing of this film.

March 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Taxi is one long car chase, which quickly crashes and burns.

March 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Buckle up for crap!

February 17, 2005 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Taxi

Basically a crappy complete re-filming of a rather decent concept which was done allot better along time ago by Besson but ruined here by Hollywood. The casting is very poor, dumb and not entertaining in the slightest, the cars look shit and its all as cheesy as hell with poor obvious stunts.The inclusion of Gisele and

May 30, 2009
phubbs1

Super Reviewer

Taxi is massive pile garbage. The film is so stupid, so unimpressive, and very poorly acted. I caught this film waiting for classes in my College's Pub, as this was the film that was showing, luckily I went for a few cigarette breaks and missed a few parts, but in the end; I didn't miss anything. Queen Latifah is a

September 30, 2011
TheDudeLebowski65
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

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