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Line 1: {{work\|wppage=Taxi (film series)}} '''''Taxi''''' is a French action comedy movie from 1998 written and produced by [[Luc Besson]] and the first of a series of ~~four~~five (as of 2018). The main protagonists are Daniel Morales (Samy Naceri), a [[Badass Driver]] from Marseilles who quits his job as the city's fastest pizza delivery boy to become the city's fastest taxi driver, and Emilien Coutant-Kerbalec (Frédéric Diefenthal), an eager but ditzy cop who has been trying and failing to get a driver's license for a long time—he only manages to get Daniel's license after the latter drove him through Marseilles at 217km/h, not knowing that the man on the backseat of his [[Cool Car\|tuned Peugeot 406]] is a cop. They end up as a team chasing a German gang of bank robbers because Daniel knows more about fast cars than Emilien and can drive him around, and because he needs his license back. Other notable characters in the movie are Daniel's friend Lilly Bertineau ([[Marion Cotillard]]) who tries quite hard to establish a love relationship with him (and who turns out to be the daughter of an army General in the second movie), [[Action Girl]] and German exchange cop Petra (Emma Sjöberg) for whom Emilien out of all people has the hots, and bumbling, chaotic Commissaire Gibert (Bernard Farcy) whose missions always end up in chaos. This first movie spawned three sequels, ''Taxi 2'' (2002), ''Taxi 3'' (2003), and ''Taxi 4'' (2007), as well as an [[Cultural Translation\|Americanized]] remake from 2004 which goes under the name ''Taxi'' in the USA and ''New York Taxi'' (or something similar) in many countries where the French originals were released. The remake features [[Queen Latifah]] as the bicycle courier-turned-taxi driver Belle Williams whose [[Cool Car\|souped-up Ford Crown Victoria]] is confiscated after she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, namely near a bank robbery, and Jimmy Fallon as Detective Jimmy Washburn who's even more inept than Emilien from the French original, and who not only is too stupid to drive a car and loses his driver's license early in the movie but also doesn't know anything about automobiles at all. Besson is still credited as a co-writer, but he's actually also co-producer of the remake. ---- {{franchisetropes}} ~~=== '''The ''Taxi'' movies contain examples of:''' ===~~ * [[Accidental Kiss]]: Lilly kisses Daniel in the first movie, and he thinks he got one of these. Which he didn't. * [[Action Girl]]: Petra. Also, the Japanese hostess from ''Taxi 2''. And, of course, Belle. Line 23: * [[Car Meets House]]: Emilien's attempts at acquiring a driver's license ''all'' ended in some store front. * [[Catch Phrase]] {{quote\| '''Commissaire Gibert:''' "Emilieeeeeeen!!!"}} * [[Chase Scene]]: Naturally, all movies love these. * [[Code Name]]: The teams during Operation Cobra (''Taxi 1'') had snake species as names. Line 38: * [[Cultural Translation]]: The 2004 remake was relocated from Marseilles to New York City, Belle drives a Ford Crown Victoria instead of a Peugeot 406, and the car chases are a lot more Hollywood-like because even a "tuned" Crown Vic can't be driven like a rally car. * [[Cunning Linguist]] / [[Omniglot]]: Petra. She speaks French perfectly, her mother tongue is German, and Gibert had to find out the hard way that she's the only one in his team who is fluent in Japanese. {{quote\| '''Gibert:''' "Does your file say you speak Japanese? It was embarrassing."~~<br />~~ '''Petra:''' "Yes, it does. Below my measurements."~~<br />~~ '''Gibert:''' "Guess I stopped there." }} * [[Dad the Veteran]]: Lilly's father, Général Bertineau, is an Algerian war veteran. He tests every visitor in his house by telling war tales. Line 47: * [[The Ditz]]: Washburn. Also, Commissaire Gibert. * [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Daniel and Belle, even when they're on two wheels (a pizza delivery guy and a bicycle courier, respectively). {{quote\| '''Emilien:''' "Hey, ahem, have you ever heard of speed limitations? You know, the big red round signs with a 50 written on it..."~~<br />~~ '''Daniel:''' "Like this one, right here?"~~<br />~~ '''Emilien:''' "Exactly! Yes! It's exactly the sign I was thinking of!"~~<br />~~ '''Daniel:''' (laughs) "I thought it was for the skateboards!" }} The Yakuza in ''Taxi 2'' are crazy enough to drive on Paris Métropolitain tracks if need be. Line 55: Sorta truth in television seeing it's a French film. About 95% of all cars on the French roads seem to be either a Peugeot, Citroën, or Renault, including (obviously) all cop cars. * [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: Spectacularly averted by Général Bertineau's limousine in ''Taxi 2''. A truck hits it and rips off the entire engine compartment ([[Clothing Damage\|and the driver's pants]]), but it doesn't even explode after Général Bertineau got out. * [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: TAXI. * [[Fake Nationality]]: Swedish actress Emma Sjöberg as German policewoman Petra. * [[Fan Service]]: A lot. Line 65: * [[Gay Paree]]: The second movie takes Daniel and Emilien to Paris to rescue a French State Secretary and Petra from the Yakuza. * [[The General's Daughter]]: Daniel dates Général Bertineau's daughter Lilly. And he does the personal chauffeur's part deliberately. But it's the Général who convinces (read: shanghais) him to drive the Cobra through the urban obstacle parcours. * [[Girl -On -Girl Is Hot]]: In the American remake, one of the bank robbers pats down Lt. Robbins for weapons in a suggestive way, much to the pleasure of all the guys present. * [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: A group of criminals drive three slightly tuned black Japanese cars–in a movie that was released one year before ''[[The Fast and ~~The~~the Furious]]''. * [[Hollywood Skydiving]]: It's perfectly okay to jump off a flying Transall in a Peugeot 406 on which three parachutes are mounted (because one or two might fail). At least for Général Bertineau. * [[Housewife]]: Camille Coutant-Kerbalec is perfectly this despite [[Disappeared Dad\|lacking a husband]]. Line 75: * [[Lemming Cops]]: While trying to chase the Yakuza, the Paris police wreck several dozen of their cars of various sizes in one big [[Blues Brothers]] 2000-style mass crash scene, accompanied by a chanson by Gilbert Bécaud. * [[Malaproper]]: Commissaire Gibert accidentally refers to the Yakuza as "Jacuzzi". * [[~~Martial Arts Headband~~Hachimaki]]: Gibert dons one before the warehouse raid to be a bit more ninja. * [[Meddlesome Patrolman]]: The pair of pesky motorcycle cops in the first movie. * [[Mission Briefing]]: Commissaire Gibert always holds one of these to introduce his latest crime-fighting missions such as Operation Cobra, Operation Zen, or Operation Ninja. Line 88: * [[Panty Shot]]: The scene in ''Taxi 2'' in which Petra and the Japanese hostess fight the Yakuza. * [[Police Are Useless]]: Applies to pretty much every cop in the French movies, perhaps with the sole exception of Petra. And Emilien actually, who is the first (even before Petra) to deduce the modus operandi in the first movie; he also manages to catch up with the ninjas in the second, he does find the yakusas in the third, and he does manage to solve the case in the fourth. He's just extremely unlucky and bumbly (confirmed by word of God in the first movie's making of. * [[Punk in ~~The~~the Trunk]]: This is how Korean taxi drivers manage to work 24 hours a day—seemingly. They've got one car, one license, and two drivers, one of which drives the car while the other one sleeps in the trunk. [[All Asians Are Alike\|Daniel says nobody in Marseilles can tell one Korean from another]], so nobody notices this. ** Then Emilien has the brilliant idea to infiltrate the German bank robbers by hiding in the trunk of one of the Mercedes while they stop at Krüger's shop to buy new tires. What he didn't take into consideration is that it's right there where they'd put the tires. * [[Double Standard Rape (Female Onon Male)]] / [[Black Comedy Rape]]: The villain of the third film, Qiu, forces oral sex on {{spoiler\|Emilien}}. * [[Running Gag]]: The Cobra's [[Unusual User Interface\|voice-controlled]] engine starts up and shuts down when you say "Ninja" and "Nip" respectively. ''Whenever'' someone says these words within the microphone's range. And "nip" is what Gibert calls the Japanese secretary. {{quote\| '''Gibert:''' "The mission is simple. We prepared a demonstration... Get it? With fake attacks! Like the ghost train? Yes, so as to impress the Nip..."~~<br />~~ (Engine shuts down)~~<br />~~ '''Daniel:''' "Ninja!"~~<br />~~ (Engine starts up)~~<br />~~ '''Gibert:''' "Above all, don't worry. Let things happen. If the Nip..."~~<br />~~ (Engine shuts down)~~<br />~~ '''Daniel:''' "Ninja!"~~<br />~~ (Engine starts up)~~<br />~~ '''Gibert:''' "Don't play while I'm talking!"~~<br />~~ '''Daniel:''' "Not me. You keep saying 'Nip'!"~~<br />~~ (Engine shuts down)~~<br />~~ '''Both:''' "NINJA!" }} ** Emilien's attempts at acquiring a driver's license. Line 122: [[Category:Films of the 1990s]] [[Category:Films of the 2000s]] [[Category:~~Taxi~~Films of the 2010s]] [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Film]] [[Category:French Cinema]]