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