History Film / Taxi

* BadassDriver: Daniel has unmatched driving skills with his souped-up at high speed.
** The famous rally drivers who drove the cars during the chase scenes in the French movies. Jean-Louis Schlesser and Henri Magne even appear as themselves in ''Taxi 2'', doing what they're famous for, namely driving in a rally, and getting pwned by Daniel who's driving a pregnant woman and her husband to the hospital and takes the closed race track as a short-cut.

* CallingTheCopsOnTheFBI: The first attempt of Gibert's brigade of regular cops to arrest the German bank robbers ends up a disaster when a confused shootout erupts between the brigade, a CRS company and the special forces in the convoy of the French Minister of the Interior who just showed up on the site, just because the latter caused a road accident. The German bank robbers simply use the occasion to flee. Fortunately with such a shootout, no-one gets hurt.

* BoringButPractical: How Daniel manages to track three Yakuza cars in the middle of Paris... By asking one of his pizza delivery guys to FollowThatCar over the phone.

* BoringButPractical: How Daniel manages to track three Yakuza cars in the middle of Paris... [[Spoilers by asking one of his pizza delivery guys to FollowThatCar over the phone.]]

* BoringButPractical: How Daniel manages to track three Yakuza cars in the middle of Paris... [[Spoiler by asking one of his pizza delivery guys to FollowThatCar over the phone.]]

* BoringButPractical: How Daniel manages to track three Yakuza cars in the middle of Paris... [[Spoiler: by asking one of his pizza delivery guys to FollowThatCar over the phone.]]

There is an [[CulturalTranslation Americanized]] [[ForeignRemake remake]] from 2004, also titled ''Film/{{Taxi|2004}}''.

* PoliceAreUseless: Applies to pretty much every cop in these 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 WordOfGod in the first movie's making of.

* StuffedIntoATrashcan: When Emilien has the [[DidntThinkThisThrough brilliant idea]] to infiltrate the Mercedes gang by hiding in the trunk of their car while they stop at Krüger's shop to buy new tires. They find him upon opening the trunk to put the tires in it, he attempts a [[ObfuscatingStupidity stupid]] [[FunnyForeigner foreigner]] impersonation, and they promptly shove him in a nearby trash container.

* LemmingCops: While trying to chase the Yakuza, the Paris police wreck several dozen of their cars of various sizes in one big ''Film/BlueBrothers2000''-[=style=] mass crash scene, accompanied by a song by Gilbert Bécaud.

* LemmingCops: While trying to chase the Yakuza, the Paris police wreck several dozen of their cars of various sizes in one big ''[[Film/TheBluesBrothers Blue Brothers 2000]]''-[=style=] mass crash scene, accompanied by a song by Gilbert Bécaud.

* TheCameo: Creator/SylvesterStallone appears as Daniel's first customer in the film.

* PantyShot: The scene in which Petra and the Japanese hostess fight the Yakuza.
** As far as the original theatrical release is concerned, [[VaporWear not in Petra's case]].