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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful :-
Great "Easy-to-watch" Movie!, 5 August 2001

Author: Thund3rheart from Örnsköldsvik, Sweden

Sometimes you're in mood to see an "Easy-to-watch" movie, a movie that not requires you to sit tight and be concentrated while watching. Taxi 2 is certainly such a movie, and if you're a Car-fanatic, you're in for the ride of your life! As it is not necessary to have seen the first film, I strongly recommend it, especially if you like this one!

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10 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-
***Alert General!***, 27 March 2003

Author: Brad Kinley (funkmasterbrad) from Calgary, Alberta

Luc Besson successfully follows up his ridiculously popular French action film 'Taxi Taxi' (1998). Taxi 2 delivers exactly what it promises - extensive action and basic, but intricately setup humour. Although intellectually lacking, this stimulating film it is easily the most entertaining movies I've even seen.

Although I didn't speak French, I was able to readily follow along with the plot. A Japanese ambassador visiting France becomes a hostage of a large gang currently running circles around the helpless French police. Samy Neci plays Daniel, a speed demon and extraordinarily talented taxi driver. When his disregard for safety land him in an awkward position with the police, he grudgingly agrees to help them rein in the terrorists.

Quentin Tarantino style, 'Ronin'-esque action and the unmistakable addition of 'French' humour make this movie a unique viewing. Surprisingly well shot and edited, Taxi 2 is a pleasure to view. The perception of a film's quality often lies in the basis of the audience's expectations. Taxi 2 was vastly entertaining, stylistic, adrenaline filled and well worth the effort to track down and view - that is if your expectations are fitting the films strengths.

*Alert General!!!!*

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8 out of 10 people found the following comment useful :-
Fast, fun and fingerlicking cool !, 12 November 2002

Author: Kim Preisler from Aarhus, Denmark

Taxi 2 is a classic example that it IS possible to make a great sequel ! It's got everything you'd expect from a future classic action-comedy ...and it's French !?! Well, it's no surprise to this critic. Author and producer Luc Besson hasn't let me down yet. The guy just doesn't make a bad movie ! Just go see it, you'll know what I'm talking about !

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
See this before it disappears, 3 April 2002
Author: axraupp from Minnesota

Though it isn't burdened with a heavy plot or serious acting, it's a great comedy. I don't know how it did in the USA, but here in Taiwan it was a hit. It's fresh and clean, and shows some nice French locations. But it's funny. Certainly, there are things taken from other films, but it really is funny.

This is a film which the whole family can enjoy, as there is very little violence and, as far as I could tell, no foul language. I rented the DVD, and unfortunately, it did not have an English soundtrack, only subtitles, but the translation was excellent, bringing a lot of the play on words into the mix.

I wonder how much those Peugeots go for...

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
Watch out! Warned you! Me do police brutality!, 13 April 2008

Author: lastliberal from Florida

I just felt like mindless entertainment yesterday and this fills the bill nicely. Luc Besson follows up his successful Taxi with taxi 2, and a new director Gérard Krawczyk (The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc), who he will keep for the next two sequels.

The regulars are back: Samy Naceri as Daniel, Frédéric Diefenthal as Émilien, Marion Cotillard as Lilly, and Emma Wiklund as Petra. Jean-Christophe Bouvet (Marie Antoinette) joins the cast as a General and Lilly's father.

A family meeting with Lilly's parents is interrupted as Daniel once again is thrust into the savior role and works with Emilien to save the Japanese ambassador, who is inspecting a new police vehicle and anti-gang tactics. Of course, the Yakuza is involved, as they do not want these things in Japan.

The usual action and laughs with some karate thrown in. Petra dazzles us with her moves sans underwear, along with Japanese beauty Tsuyu Shimizu.

This film sees Emilien make the moves towards Petra, while Daniel's love life with Lilly is constantly interrupted.

Good clean fun as only the French can do.

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
Funny!, 14 March 2003

Author: requiemuk from Brighton, England

As usual, the IMDB users who feel they belong to the upper eschilons of film society have mocked this, a film which is genuinely funny.

From the start the film is funny - a rally car being overtaken by a taxi - 'Tourists!' as he calls them. Some great exhibition driving, good stunts and a black impenetrable car which starts when someone says ninja to it.

Some good gags, good laughs and overall a very funny film. Although I feel it loses some of its charm in translation, my very limited knowledge of French helped me appreciate a bit more than I would have.

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
a funny movie, 21 November 2000

Author: Firas from Kiel, Germany

I spent a nice time watching this movie. I was laughing nearly all the time. Although I can speak French but it was not enough to understand many of the wordplays which are also surely not appropriately translatable in the subtitles. As usual in the French comedy they have to mock of the authorities like the government, the police or the army. Even the French president and prime minister did not escape this fate. Generally it's a movie to have fun in it . Since the movie takes place in south France the Arab immigrants has to show up in it with their accent. Many of the dialogues were in fact a critic against things that happen in France like among others the maltreatment of some foreigners by the police.

There is nothing special concerning the scenario or the direction. Anyway one cannot expect to see a movie with a totally coherent scenario. It's rather a light movie for having fun not in a totally stupid manner as is the case in many comedies. The actors played there roles in an appropriate manner also without any special or outstanding acting.

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
Better than the first, 1 February 2008

Author: gridoon2009

Yes, I found this sequel superior to the original. Action-wise they're on about the same level, but the comedy is much sharper here. The opening sequence alone, involving a woman giving birth right on the back seat of Daniel's taxi and his girlfriend on the phone mistaking the whole thing for something else entirely, is funnier than anything in the first film. There are good lines....

- "Petra, I didn't know you can speak Japanese"

- "It's on my file, sir. Right after my measurements"

- "Ah, I must have stopped reading at that point!"

...and even some elements of political satire. The energy level goes down a bit somewhere in the middle, but bounces back up in the last 20 minutes. Emma Sjöberg gets a more active part this time around, and there are some incredible martial arts moves performed by her, Tsuyu Shimizu, and a masked ninja. Daniel's taxi has increased capabilities, which include flying (!) and require the assistance of special effects, but the crashes (and the fast driving) still look smashingly real. There are also certain gags (how Emilien finally gets his driver's license, for example) that work much better if you know the original, so make sure to watch that one first. (**1/2)

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
Much funnier than the first, 15 February 2004
Author: Maarten van Krimpen from Rotterdam, Holland

Taxi 2 is an action-comedy. No serious drama, interesting story or a Oscar-winning comedy. Just a ordinary, very funny comedy.

Samy Naceri and Frederic Diefenthal return when a Japanese minister comes to France for some kind of new defense strategy. Of course, that strategy has to be showed, and than it goes wrong. The Japanese minister is kidnapped and the police tries with the help of Samy Naceri to get him back.

The final of the film is a bit overdone, when almost a dozen police-cars hit each other near to the Eiffel tower. Absolutely not realistic, but that's not such a bad thing, isn't it? It's the result of a great car-chase before, and the things that happen then are so dumb but so funny; irresistible. The greatest moment of the movie is when Samy Naceri, Frederic Diefenthal, some Japanese girl and the military father of Samy Naceri's girlfriend jump out of a plane. And when they come down...great, great, great, great!

Taxi 2 is a real must-see. Typically French, but great fun.

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Have you seen the first one? See the second one!, 1 July 2008

Author: cosmorados from United Kingdom

Daniel is about to meet the father of his girlfriend, as long as he's not a cop everything should be fine, shouldn't it? Well no, for Daniel has to charm a man for whom no-one is good enough for his little girl, if he is going to do this, he needs to become a true bastion of courage, a hero, a man who will stop at nothing for the good of his country. As for Emeilien, he is in the process of enjoying his loving girlfriend and making significant headway with her, while his boss has to impress Japanese leaders with a new range of car and tactics to beat the Yakuza. However, as is usually the case, very little goes right and Daniel and Emelien's paths cross inopportunely yet again, although this time with slightly more respect between them.

In Taxi 2 we are treated from the very start with a superb film that begins where the other one takes off with the same cast reprising their roles magnificently, the car chases are magnificent again and the comedy is even better than in the first film. This is a film that I sat down with my boy to watch and he absolutely loved it. A ton of car chases and a fantastic number of action sequences make for an enthralling film and an absolute must see.

Again, this is a thousand times better than much of the CGI faked scenes that we are accustomed to with only "Vantage Point" in recent years, coming close to giving us what we get in this film.

Fantastic fun!

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