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06/03/08
Taxi (2004)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:5
Rotten:21
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: Silly and unfunny remake of a French movie of the same name.
Theatrical Release:Oct 8, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $36,538,318
Synopsis: Jimmy Fallon gets his first starring role with TAXI, an action-packed comedy that finds the former Saturday Night Live showman teaming up with Oscar-nominated rapper-turned-actress Queen Latifah... [More]
Starring: Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Henry Simmons, Jennifer Esposito
Director: Tim Story
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Reviews for Taxi
Top CriticI expected this to be much funnier: Latifah coasts on her charm, and Fallon seems incapable of playing an actual character.
02/27/07
Top CriticTaxi 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.
10/11/04
Top CriticGoes nowhere fast.
10/07/04
Top CriticTaxi runs out of fuel after the opening credits.
10/07/04
Top CriticCorny, but it grows on you.
10/07/04
Top CriticFallon takes off on a few good funny-man flights.
10/07/04
Top CriticI wouldn't call Taxi over the top. More like over the edge.
10/07/04
Top CriticThroughout this Americanization of the Luc Besson–scripted French hit, Latifah itches to check her watch, Fallon appears mortified, and only Ann-Margret mainlines any comic adrenaline.
10/06/04
Top CriticTaxi serves up embarrassing evidence that even a ragged French original can be better than its American remake.
10/06/04
Top CriticA surprisingly funny, female-driven romp -- as long as you don't question too many plot particulars.
10/06/04
Top CriticA formula picture, with enough laughs to get by.
10/06/04
Top CriticDirector Tim Story's film has two speeds: pedal-to-metal and screeching halt. The former is guaranteed to make the audience carsick, the latter to give it whiplash.
10/06/04
Top CriticFull of car chases, weak jokes and scenes so meandering they make Saturday Night Live look like a paragon of brevity and wit.
10/06/04
Top CriticA remake of a 1998 French film of the same name, Tim Story's Taxi is a bland, half-finished film that seems to have been conceived as off-peak cable fodder.
10/06/04
Top CriticThe most embarrassing SNL vehicle since Pootie Tang.
10/06/04
Top CriticWe often hear about movie scenes and characters being left on the cutting-room floor. In the case of the would-be comedy Taxi, that's apparently where all the laughs were left.
10/06/04
Top Critic[A] thoroughly repetitive, ill-conceived and poorly executed effort.
10/06/04
Top CriticAn action-choked dud in which even the closing outtakes barely deserve to be left on the cutting-room floor.
10/06/04
Top CriticA completely inane buddy flick filled with flashy car chases, ridiculous situations, cheap self-help advice, unabashed mugging and a few good laughs.
10/06/04
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