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Taxi 2 [VHS]

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Funny and interesting French flick. While the film has it's humorous moments the best character is the female detective played by the beautiful Emma Sjoberg. She teaches her male counterpart a thing or two about martial arts while he's ogling over her beauty. However the best scene is at the end of the movie. As the girls are set free from their kidnappers by the gunslinging captain and begin to try walk away with the others out of the room they are met head on by a line of bad guy ninjas. Even though heavily outnumbered and having the advantage of using the captains pistol, the girls instead opt to dispatch the bad guys themselves in their own way. Dressed in short skirts, the girls calmly remove their high heels and unleash their deadly martial arts skills kicking and throwing the bad guys around the room knocking every one of them out cold. Emma Sjoberg in particular is proficient in karate and wonderful to watch in action.

I've always love Luc Besson's movies - and all of the Taxi serias are funny! Car racing is very cute too, even though I am not into it. Better to watch in original language and read subtitles, so you can actually have a real "taste" of his movies.

"Taxi 2" reunites Daniel, driver of the super-charged taxi, with French policeman, Emilien, (and just about every other character from the original film) and this time pits them against a band of ninjas intent on kidnapping the Japanese defense secretary. If you've seen the first "Taxi" film then you know what to expect and you won't be disappointed. If not, think along the same lines as "The Transporter" (which is also written by Luc Besson, writer of the "Taxi" series), only funnier, or the remake of "The Italian Job". "Taxi 2" is lighter on character development than its predecessor, but the whole reason for watching a "Taxi" film is for the comedic action sequences, and the action sequences in "Taxi 2" are just as cool as those in "Taxi". And the best thing about this film is knowing that there are two more sequels after it.

there are 4 of this french 'taxi' movies. the extremely tuned and tweaked taxi is a 'peugeot', you'd be amazed to see how this car is so cool and so fast (329-429 miles/hr) but failed to survive the u.s. market (because peugeot stupidly installed a speed governor device on the 505 that made the car not only lost power but also failed to drive over 80 miles per hour), exactly like jackie chan sponsored by the 'mitsubishi' in all of his movies, but still, that brand name never became as popular as toyota honda or nissan. we got a cool guy who quited his pizza delivery job and shifted into taxi business without a license. we got a stupid captain, a nerdy young detective who falls in love with a taller female detective. the taxi driver got a beautiful girl friend who played a lovely wine country girl in the recently released 'a good year'. then this beautiful girl got a crazy french general father. car chasings, bad guys, robberies....whatever the french could come up, they put them into these 4 movies, and it's so popular all over the world except america, just like the soccer, never becomes popular in america.

this is better than taxi 1. more action & more fun. it makes taxi 1 totally boring movie. if you liked taxi 1,you will love this