Taxi (Widescreen Edition)
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Actor: Gisele Bündchen, Henry Simmons, Jennifer Esposito, Jimmy Fallon, Queen LatifahBrand: QUEEN LATIFAH
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
Published: 2005-02-01
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-15
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Taxi (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Comedy Misfires and Suspense Fails...
Summary: 1 Stars
Dreams and aspirations often indicate what kind of profession a person intends to pursue. In Taxi, which is a remake, the audience gets to follow two people with very different aspirations, one a cab driver and the other a police officer. Belle (Queen Latifah) has worked hard over the last five years, as a bike borne delivery woman, to accomplish her goal to become a cab driver. The long and hard work has also affected Belle's relationship with her boyfriend, as she has been preoccupied with fulfilling her dream. Her dream is to drive her own cab, a boosted Ford Crown Victoria on steroids in superior James Bond style.
Police detective Washburn (Jimmy Fallon) finds himself being demoted and having his driver's license suspended by his superior, Lieutenant Robbins (Jennifer Esposito), as a result of a car accident during a stake out. Without a drivers license Washburn is forced to use public transportation, but when he overhears a bank robbery in progress over his portable radio he takes a cab to the crime scene. This cab happens to be Belle's improved Crown Victoria, and it is about to put her career and relationship on the line while Washburn keeps digging himself a deeper hole.
Together Belle and Washburn begin a long uphill road in order to redeem themselves in regards to their professional careers and private lives. This journey takes them through eye-boggling car chases, death defiant stunts, and a couple of lessons in how to drive a car. These dangers are stitched together with slapstick humor and frequent situational jokes in regards to Washburn's stupidity, insecurities, and inabilities. The humor and jokes are clichés from previous unoriginal films, which makes the jokes more mind numbing than humorous. The timing of the jokes seems to be missed, as if the audience knows the punch line before the joke is presented. This makes much of the humor silly, untimely, and overall less funny.
Taxi presents some high-speed car chases in New York, but many of them seem to go on forever as if New York City had mile blocks. The bank robbers' ability to hit targets the size of a quarter in 100 feet distances while moving with a handgun presents a new level of sharp shooter. These marksmen make Sergeant Riggs in Lethal Weapon look like a ten-year-old that still wets the bed. Therefore, these scenes create much awkwardness and it appears that the car chases and the other action scenes were intended to induce some form of suspense, but fail drastically in doing so.
The combination of humor and action has been used efficiently before in films such as 48 Hrs. (1982), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Lethal Weapon (1987), and Die Hard (1988). In Naked Gun (1988) the viewers could see parody in action, as it made a mockery of the films made before that brought the audience action, suspense, and comedy through the law enforcement. Taxi attempts to deliver a film that walks on the ground in between the parodies and suspenseful actions, but never accomplishes to give suspense or comedy. And as far as the message of following ones dreams and aspirations, well, it is lost somewhere in the beginning. Overall Taxi offers a cinematic experience with very little true humor and suspense and would even make a nervous person fall asleep. Let us hope that Tim Story does a better job directing his upcoming Fantastic Four, as he did with Barbershop (2002).
Description of Taxi (Widescreen Edition)
Sassy hip-hop star Queen Latifah brings hilarious attitude to this hard-driving, high-octane comedy action blast! Latifah plays Belle, New York?s fastest cabbie, whose taxi-driving expertise ? not to mention her loaded-to-the-max vehicle ? comes in handy when a fumbling young undercover cop (Jimmy Fallon) must crack a bank robbery plot hatched by a gang of supermodels! Don?t miss this tire-squealing, stop-on-a-dime comedy with a topflight cast of stars, including NYPD Blue's Henry Simmons, Ann-Margaret and supermodel Gisele Bundchen!Bestsellers in DVD
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