{"id":29944,"date":"2022-06-06T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29944"},"modified":"2022-06-04T16:57:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T21:57:38","slug":"on-taxi-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/06\/on-taxi-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"On <em>Taxi<\/em> (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/taxi.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">The trailer for this film appears before one of the movies I watch fairly frequently&#8211;perhaps <em>The Man Who Knew Too Little<\/em> on DVD, or perhaps <em>Dodgeball<\/em>.  So I have seen the trailer enough so that when I found the video at the antique mall when I had a gift certificate to spend, I picked it up.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re of a certain age and think <em>Taxi<\/em>, you hear Bob James&#8217;s &#8220;Angela&#8221; in your head.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fYGR5JtyKng\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But this is not that show.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Queen Latifah movie with Jimmy Fallon in it judging by the titles; it also features a young Henry Simmons (Mac from <em>Agents of SHIELD<\/em>) as Queen Latifah&#8217;s boyfriend and an unrecognizeable Ann-Margret as Jimmy Fallon&#8217;s mother.  In it, Fallon&#8217;s character, detective Washburn doesn&#8217;t drive a car well, and in the intro, his antics lead to destruction and a license suspension.  When he hears of a bank robbery, he jumps into a cab driven by Belle Williams (Queen Latifah) and orders her to follow the robbers.  It&#8217;s no ordinary cab&#8211;a former bicycle messenger, Williams has modified the car serving as her cab to be a racecar, and she&#8217;s a NASCAR hopeful.  So they drive really fast on the trail of the bank robbers, who are apparently also models for some reason (well, they can&#8217;t all be surfers like in <em>Point Break<\/em>, I guess).  Which means the leader of the band is Mrs. Tom Brady.  I tried to lure my boys to watch the film, but that trivium was not enough..  And as they work together, they meet each other&#8217;s families and whatnot for some humorous set pieces.<\/p>\n<p>So it has a bit of a bad reputation and rating, but it&#8217;s just a piece of early century popcorn action comedy.  No worse than most, and honestly better than the Internet would have you believe.<\/p>\n<p>So, about that band of bank robbers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/giselebundchen.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tGisele B\u00fcndchen as Vanessa<\/center><\/td>\n<td><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/anacristinadeoliveira.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tAna Cristina de Oliveira as Redhead<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ingridvandebosch.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tIngrid Vandebosch as Third Robber<\/center><\/td>\n<td><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/magaliamadei.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tMagali Amadei as Fourth Robber<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Why supermodel bank robbers?  <em>That&#8217;s why.<\/em>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trailer for this film appears before one of the movies I watch fairly frequently&#8211;perhaps The Man Who Knew Too Little on DVD, or perhaps Dodgeball. 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