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Somewhere in Hollywood, a group of executives [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Brett Ratner]] decided that [[Jackie Chan]] and Chris Tucker should make a movie together. The results were... [[Better Than It Sounds|actually quite good]]. The series centers on a pair of police detectives - one a Chinese police inspector, the other an LAPD detective - as they go on a series of misadventures often involving corrupt crime figures. The film incorporates elements of martial arts, and the buddy cop sub-genre.

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{{smallcaps|Rush Hour}} (1998)

 

The first movie was a major success and became the 7th top grossing film of 1998, with a gross of over $140 million dollars at the U.S. box office. The combination of motor-mouthed Tucker with Chan's gravity defying stunts proved to be a winning combination, in no small part due to Chan's movies being mostly comedies anyway.

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{{smallcaps|Rush Hour 2}} (2001)

 

But following some hunches Lee and Carter fly back to Los Angeles where they meet a woman in the Secret Service who directs them on how to find the counterfeiters. Like the first movie, she was trying to get them out of her way but Lee and Carter again find the right chain of evidence that takes them to Las Vegas and the perfect money-laundering location.

 

{{smallcaps|Rush Hour 3}} (2007)

 

 

But their race will take them across the city, from the depths of the Paris underground to the breathtaking heights of the Eiffel Tower, as they fight to outrun the world's most deadly criminals and save the day. Of the three, this is the [[Sequelitis|least well-received]].

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* [[All Asians Are Alike]]: In Part Two, after hitting Lee by mistake in the massage parlor fight, Carter says "All y'all look alike!."

* [[Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving]]: The chief invokes this trope to make it seem like he's impressed with Tucker. He's actually quite angry, but is lying to get Tucker to accept a humiliating assignment as a supposed reward.

* [[Buddy Cop Show]]: See [[Odd Couple]].

* [[The Cameo]]: Jeremy Piven and Don Cheadle (who took it under the condition he would get a brief sparring moment with Chan) in Part Two, and [[Roman Polanski]] in Part Three.

** In the same outtakes, he says to Chan "If I didn't [[Camp Straight|have a girlfriend]], I would be [[Bi the Way|all over you]]!"

* [[Ceiling Cling]]: Parodied in the second film.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Literally. Carter carries a second gun in the first film that's first played for laughs after he is disarmed; pretty much saves his life at the end.

* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Carter requests that Lee teach him the gun disarming skill Lee used on him earlier. Carter uses it later on a mook and even lampshades it "Didn't know I could do that, did you?"

* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Both Carter AND Lee. Especially Carter; he causes massive property damage, uses highly questionable investigation techniques, and doesn't bother hiding the fact he smokes weed.

* [[Crowd Hockey]]: The detonator in ''Rush Hour 2''.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Carter is generally loud, rude, and almost gleefully engages in [[Uncle Tomfoolery]] but proves to be a competent investigator and ''insanely'' fast on the draw in the first movie and defeats two accomplished martial artists who gave Lee trouble in 2 and 3.

* [[My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad]]: In the first movie, Lee and Carter get into an argument about their deceased fathers, culminating in this:

{{quote|'''Carter''': Your daddy was a a cop?

'''Carter''': [[Hypocritical Humor|Don't talk about my daddy]]. }}

* [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]: Thanks to his poor poor Cantonese, Carter invited two girls to get naked and sacrifice a small goat instead of having a drink. He also told ''[[Bad Guy Bar|the entire triad bar]]'' to take out [[Katanas Are Just Better|their Samurai swords]] and shave his butt. It's heavily implied that he bought the wrong Chinese-To-English translation book before their trip to Hong Kong.

* [[She's All Grown Up]]: Carter has this reaction In Rush Hour 3 after seeing Soo Yung for the first time in nine years. Surprisingly, he doesn't hit on her.

** In fact he acts as something of a [[Papa Wolf]] towards her.

* [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer]]: For [[Paedo Hunt|obvious reasons]], [[Roman Polanski]]'s role in part three as a French customs agent was kept pretty quiet.

* [[Soul Brotha]]: Carter.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: In the first film, Lee threatens that nothing better happen to all the priceless Chinese art and artifacts. Carter reassures him: "Don't worry, ain't nothin' gonna happen to any of this stuff." Only a couple minutes later, a huge gunfight erupts in the room, which destroys many of the items.

* [[Title Drop]]: First movie only (and really, it's the only one where the title makes sense; what does Rush Hour have to do with the crimes taking place in Hong Kong or Paris?).

[''Sang shoots both guards and abducts Soo Yung''] }}

** To be fair, during the last hour of the sequels, Lee and Carter are usually ''rushing'' to get somewhere to stop someone dangerous, or rescue someone, so the title ''Rush Hour'' does kind of make sense. But that is stretching it.

* [[T-Word Euphemism]]: Played with in ''Rush Hour 3''. Carter and Lee are interrogating a man who speaks only French, so they enlist a nun, who's fluent in French, to translate. So, naturally, when she translates the prisoner's taunts, she summarizes with, "And he called you the N-word." For the rest of the scene, Carter and Lee ask her to translate things like, "Tell this piece of S-word that I'll kick his A-word," complete with brief stops to determine the spelling of some of the words.

* [[Uncle Tomfoolery]]: Carter, especially in the later movies.

** [[Eddie Murphy]] was also originally supposed to play as Carter, but turned the role down to work on another project.

* [[Who's on First?]]: In ''Rush Hour 3'', this was done in a dojo when Carter was speaking with Master Yu and Sifu Mi.

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