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Taxi

  • 20042004
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 37m
IMDb RATING
4.5/10
42K
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Queen Latifah, Ana Cristina de Oliveira, Jimmy Fallon, Ingrid Vandebosch, and Gisele Bündchen in Taxi (2004)
Trailer for Taxi
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  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Crime
A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.
IMDb RATING
4.5/10
42K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Tim Story
  • Writers
    • Luc Besson(earlier screenplay)
    • Robert Ben Garant(screenplay)
    • Thomas Lennon(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Queen Latifah
    • Jimmy Fallon
    • Gisele Bündchen
Top credits
  • Director
    • Tim Story
  • Writers
    • Luc Besson(earlier screenplay)
    • Robert Ben Garant(screenplay)
    • Thomas Lennon(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Queen Latifah
    • Jimmy Fallon
    • Gisele Bündchen
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 195User reviews
    • 78Critic reviews
    • 27Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 7 nominations

    Videos3

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    Trailer 2:28
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    Trailer 2:22
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    Trailer 2:25
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    Photos82

    Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon in Taxi (2004)
    Jennifer Esposito and Jimmy Fallon in Taxi (2004)
    Queen Latifah and Henry Simmons in Taxi (2004)
    Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon in Taxi (2004)
    Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon in Taxi (2004)
    Gisele Bündchen in Taxi (2004)
    Ana Cristina de Oliveira and Gisele Bündchen in Taxi (2004)
    Queen Latifah in Taxi (2004)
    Tim Story in Taxi (2004)
    Jimmy Fallon in Taxi (2004)
    Ana Cristina de Oliveira and Gisele Bündchen in Taxi (2004)
    Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon in Taxi (2004)

    Top cast

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    Queen Latifah
    Queen Latifah
    • Isabelle 'Belle' Williamsas Isabelle 'Belle' Williams
    Jimmy Fallon
    Jimmy Fallon
    • Andrew 'Andy' Washburnas Andrew 'Andy' Washburn
    Gisele Bündchen
    Gisele Bündchen
    • Vanessaas Vanessa
    Henry Simmons
    Henry Simmons
    • Jesseas Jesse
    Jennifer Esposito
    Jennifer Esposito
    • Lt. Marta Robbinsas Lt. Marta Robbins
    Ana Cristina de Oliveira
    Ana Cristina de Oliveira
    • Redheadas Redhead
    Ingrid Vandebosch
    Ingrid Vandebosch
    • Third Robberas Third Robber
    Magali Amadei
    • Fourth Robberas Fourth Robber
    Ann-Margret
    Ann-Margret
    • Mrs. Washburnas Mrs. Washburn
    Christian Kane
    Christian Kane
    • Agent Mullinsas Agent Mullins
    Boris McGiver
    Boris McGiver
    • Franklinas Franklin
    Adrian Martinez
    Adrian Martinez
    • Brasilian Manas Brasilian Man
    Joe Lisi
    Joe Lisi
    • Mr. Scaliaas Mr. Scalia
    Bryna Weiss
    Bryna Weiss
    • Mrs. Scaliaas Mrs. Scalia
    GQ
    GQ
    • Stopwatch Messengeras Stopwatch Messenger
    Joey Diaz
    Joey Diaz
    • Freddyas Freddy
    • (as Joey 'CoCo' Diaz)
    Rick Overton
    Rick Overton
    • Man at Taxi Conventionas Man at Taxi Convention
    John Rothman
    John Rothman
    • Business Manas Business Man
    • Director
      • Tim Story
    • Writers
      • Luc Besson(earlier screenplay)
      • Robert Ben Garant(screenplay)
      • Thomas Lennon(screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
    • See more cast details at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Ingrid Vandebosch, one of the female robbers in this film, is married to Jeff Gordon, who has an uncredited cameo in this film.
    • Goofs
      After the second bank robbery, while the women are modifying their vehicle, they are clearly wearing black, flat, men's-style shoes. However, when they pull of their suits only a few moments later, the women are suddenly wearing high heeled sandals.
    • Quotes

      Washburn's Mom: Andy is not a really a strong driver. See, he had a really bad experience when he had his first driving lesson. So...

      Washburn: Driving lesson? You call that a driving lesson?

      Washburn's Mom: Yes!

      Washburn: Dad let go of the wheel and said "You better steer or you're gonna kill the whole family".

      Washburn's Mom: Yeah! It's good for you.

      Washburn: We where going 90, I was six!

      Washburn's Mom: That's right! And that's the way he taught you to swim!

      Washburn: I can't swim either!

    • Crazy credits
      Outtakes are shown during the closing credits
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Shall We Dance?/Taxi/Raise Your Voice/Stage Beauty (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      Crazy in Love
      Written by Rich Harrison, Jay-Z (as Shawn Carter), Beyoncé and Eugene Record

      Performed by Beyoncé

      Courtesy of Columbia Records

      By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

      (contains a sample of "Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)"

      Performed by The Chi-Lites

      Courtesy of Brunswick Record Corporation).

    User reviews195

    Review
    Top review
    Boys will like it but the rest of us will be turned off by the lack of imagination, spark or anything resembling originality
    Washburn is an undercover cop who, after yet another job ending in a crashed car, has his license taken away and put back on the street. Meanwhile cycle courier Belle has finally gotten her taxi license and is preparing her souped up vehicle for the New York City streets. When a bank robbery in progress is called in, Washburn commandeers Belle's cab and gets involved in a high-speed chase with a group of Brazilian supermodels in a red BMW. Thrown off the case by the FBI, Washburn wants to catch the gang to get his job back, while Belle agrees to help so that she can get her taxi out of lockup.

    I quite liked the original for what it was so I decided to give this film a try to see if it could manage to be fun. I'll be honest and say that the trailer attracted me because it had car chases, a bit of a laugh and some faux-lesbian teasing – there, gone are my 'art-house' credentials! I hoped that these elements could be kept fun and that the film could have a spark to it in some area that would raise it above the genre and actually make it fun to watch. Sadly I was wrong and my worries about the effort put into this film were realized in the first few minutes of the film where a skinny person on a bike is revealed to be Belle – even though their body shapes could not be more different! With this lack of attention to detail I did not have high hopes but I figured I was being picky and tried to get past it. However from here on in everything is exactly as you would expect – lacking imagination and effort in almost every regard.

    The plot is nonsense but to pick on that is to be too demanding because none of us expected anything too cohesive or logical but suffice to say that attempts to build stories around the characters are all flat and uninteresting. However what I did need from the film was action, excitement, comedy and spark. The action is OK but nothing special – the use of CGI cars to make impossible stunts really takes away from the impact of the action, while the limitations of the busy streets means that the car chases are very tightly cut and never feel real and impressive. This reduces how excited the audience can feel and me and the other 15 people in the cinema sat rather impassive for most of the action scenes. With this OK, then the comedy needed to match it to produce an OK film, but it didn't. Not at all. The comedy is partly based on that wonderful comic device – that black people are cool and sassy while white people are geeky and uptight. Oh, how I never tire of seeing racial stereotypes enforced in the name of comedy. With this old chestnut wheeled out again, the rest of the comedy falls into line and I never really laughed more than once. The button pushing and lack of imagination continues with the robbers themselves who are nothing more than legs and skin who are there to attract an idiotic and salivating male audience (ie – me) on the promise of titillation. They don't deliver this very well at all and the scenes where they try to feel cheap, tacky and exploitative instead of sexy and fresh.

    The cast are lumbered with the material but they don't do as much as perhaps they could have done to make it better. Fallon is annoying and geeky – simply filling the 'white' cliché in the 'cool black/geeky white' combo. Latifah continues to just play the easy ethnic cliché stuff for every penny.

    I don't know if she is like this in real life but I must admit that I do find her ethnic cliché to be lazy and rather offensive – her smart-mouth, impatience and speed to violence has been in many of her last few roles and I don't think it is the best use of her position, but then again if you put money in front of me then I'd probably do the same. Esposito is pretty wasted in a thankless role before being used as a piece of meat for the sake of selling the film to the male audience (yes, yes, I admit it). The models are nothing but eye candy and I didn't think they did it very well.

    Overall this is not a terrible film because it will appeal to boys and young teenagers with its noisy mix of unattainable leggy women, fast cars, basic humour and racial stereotyping; the target audience for this is shown even in the cut – which removes a use of the MF word so that it can get to a younger audience. For me though I found it lacking any sort of imagination, spark or wit and instead just took the easy line of cliché, stereotype and noise. It will appeal to some, but not to me, and it was an effort to get to the end.
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    • bob the moo
    • Dec 4, 2004

    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 6, 2004 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • France
    • Languages
      • English
      • Portuguese
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Taxi 2004
    • Filming locations
      • Phoenix International Raceway - 7602 S. Avondale Boulevard, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
    • Production companies
      • Twentieth Century Fox
      • EuropaCorp
      • Robert Simonds Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $25,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $36,879,320
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $12,029,832
      • Oct 10, 2004
    • Gross worldwide
      • $71,255,003
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 37 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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