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63A surprisingly funny, female-driven romp — as long as you don't question too many plot particulars.
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60It's loud, it's stupid, yet against all the odds, enjoyable.
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50Riddled with comic potholes.
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50Frivolous but fun, somewhere between a comic "French Connection" and the craziest Nascar race you never saw.
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50Director Tim Story's film has two speeds: pedal-to-metal and screeching halt. The former is guaranteed to make the audience carsick, the latter to give it whiplash.
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50How one likes Taxi has everything to do with how one responds to the hapless cop character, played by Jimmy Fallon.
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50Too much of Taxi is just tired.
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Full of car chases, weak jokes and scenes so meandering they make "Saturday Night Live" look like a paragon of brevity and wit.
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40I haven't seen the original, but I can vouch for the clumsiness of the new version. As usual, though, Queen Latifah is an indomitable, if sometimes undirectable, comic force.
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40I expected this to be much funnier: Latifah coasts on her charm and Fallon seems incapable of playing an actual character.
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38Very little of it works.
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30This thoroughly repetitive, ill-conceived and poorly executed effort -- with an emphasis on the word "effort" -- defeats these two talented people more often than not.
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30Queen Latifah is a natural-born charmer, but there's only so much she can do when paired with a costar so irritating it's hard not to squirm when he's on the screen, which is most of the time.
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30The glitch, beyond the rote story, is that while she's an infectiously upbeat screen presence, Latifah is not, inherently, a major laugh generator, and neither, it would appear, is Fallon.
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30Feels stitched together from bits and pieces of lame '80s buddy-cop movies.
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30Throughout this Americanization of the Luc Besson–scripted French hit, Latifah itches to check her watch, Fallon appears mortified, and only Ann-Margret mainlines any comic adrenalin.
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30It would take the ghost of Stanley Kubrick to get great performances out of Jimmy Fallon, Queen Latifah, and supermodel Gisele Bündchen, and Tim, you're no Stanley.
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30A bland, half-finished film that seems to have been conceived as off-peak cable fodder.
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30Commits any number of comedic violations during an aimless pursuit of laughs.
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30Goes nowhere fast.
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25In a film that is wall-to-wall idiocy, the most tiresome delusion is that car chases are funny.
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25If this is magic, I'll take "Gigli."
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25Bad as he is, Fallon cannot claim Taxi's worst moment. That belongs to Ann-Margret.
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25Taxi's only saving grace is an inexplicable, though delightful, turn by Ann-Margret as Andy's ever-tipsy mom. She's a stitch, and about 100 times better than her surrounding material.
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25An action-choked dud in which even the closing outtakes barely deserve to be left on the cutting-room floor?
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12This witless action comedy begins to insult the audience's intelligence from the opening scene.
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0Very nearly as entertaining as watching a potato bake.
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ChuckM.2That's an hour and forty minutes of my life that was just wasted. How depressing.