Taxi 2 (2000)
Country: FR
Technical: col/Technovision
Director: Gérard Krawczyk
Cast: Sammy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal, Marion Cotillard
Synopsis:
Anti-authoritarian Daniel has to swallow his pride when he discovers that his prospective father-in-law is an Army General; to make matters worse, his driving skills and souped-up Peugeot taxi are once again needed by the Marseilles police, when a visiting Japanese minister is kidnapped from under their noses.
Review:
A cynical, and increasingly jingoistic, re-run of elements from the first film, with a deranged and slightly camp military figure thrown in to egg the pudding. It hardly seems necessary to introduce the characters all over again (it takes a good fifteen minutes for any plot to emerge), but the zany incompetence of the police and rapid-fire dialogue do draw forth some laughs. A pity the stuntwork seems more keen to outdo foreign benchmarks such as The Italian Job and The Blues Brothers than to rely on small-scale gallic wit.
Country: FR
Technical: col/Technovision
Director: Gérard Krawczyk
Cast: Sammy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal, Marion Cotillard
Synopsis:
Anti-authoritarian Daniel has to swallow his pride when he discovers that his prospective father-in-law is an Army General; to make matters worse, his driving skills and souped-up Peugeot taxi are once again needed by the Marseilles police, when a visiting Japanese minister is kidnapped from under their noses.
Review:
A cynical, and increasingly jingoistic, re-run of elements from the first film, with a deranged and slightly camp military figure thrown in to egg the pudding. It hardly seems necessary to introduce the characters all over again (it takes a good fifteen minutes for any plot to emerge), but the zany incompetence of the police and rapid-fire dialogue do draw forth some laughs. A pity the stuntwork seems more keen to outdo foreign benchmarks such as The Italian Job and The Blues Brothers than to rely on small-scale gallic wit.
Country: FR
Technical: col/Technovision
Director: Gérard Krawczyk
Cast: Sammy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal, Marion Cotillard
Synopsis:
Anti-authoritarian Daniel has to swallow his pride when he discovers that his prospective father-in-law is an Army General; to make matters worse, his driving skills and souped-up Peugeot taxi are once again needed by the Marseilles police, when a visiting Japanese minister is kidnapped from under their noses.
Review:
A cynical, and increasingly jingoistic, re-run of elements from the first film, with a deranged and slightly camp military figure thrown in to egg the pudding. It hardly seems necessary to introduce the characters all over again (it takes a good fifteen minutes for any plot to emerge), but the zany incompetence of the police and rapid-fire dialogue do draw forth some laughs. A pity the stuntwork seems more keen to outdo foreign benchmarks such as The Italian Job and The Blues Brothers than to rely on small-scale gallic wit.