dworldeater
DC Cab is a wildly hilarious and totally unpc comedy classic from the 80's. Adam Baldwin(best known as Animal Mother from Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket) he heads this ensemble cast that also includes Max Gail, Mr. T, Gary Busey, Bill Maher, The Barbarian Brothers and more. This comedy classic has great performances and totally off the wall, colorful characters. They certainly don't make them like this anymore. The pc police would certainly have a fit if something like this was released in today's market. There is plenty of pure insanity and laughter to be had here folks. While DC Cab is raw and unhinged, the characters have a lot of heart. DC Cab comes highly recommended and is one cinematic experience you won't forget.
kapelusznik18
***SPOILERS*** Looking to get a job as a taxi driver in Washington D.C fresh faced young and very naive Albert Hockenberry, Adam Baldwin,ends up hacking for his late father's Vietnam army buddy Harold Oswelt, Max Gail, who's rag tag taxi company is on the verge of bankruptcy.With ready for the junk heap cars Harold's taxi drivers are in may ways just as bad and in unserviceable conditions as the cars that they drive. It doesn't take long for luck to smile on Harold with one of his drivers finding a violin worth $500,000.00 in his cab who's grateful owner gave him a $10,000.00 reward for returning it.Even though Harold's greedy and unfaithful wife Myrna, Anne De Salvo, who's having an affair with city taxi inspector Emesto Bravo, Joe Perez,ends up will all the cash due to the stale community property laws it's Albert who chips in with his life saving, $6,000.00, to keep Harold's car business from going under. It' later when Albert is kidnapped together with the US , were not told to what country he's assigned to, ambassador's two children that things start really crackling.Great car or taxi chase scenes together with a load of funky music makes this what would have been a forgettable film really shine. The cast included the big bad but moral, he never uses any cuss words, Mr. T as Samson oner of Harold's hard knocking taxi drivers who in the end rescues Albert and the kids by yanking him out of the kidnappers van minus his boots. There's also a very young looking Bill Maher as Baba the cab philosopher and Gary Busey and rock & roll psycho , he must have pick that up playing Buddy Holly, who beside driving the streets of D.C like he's in the Indianapolis 500 refused to work one day in the year January 8; Elvis' birthday.***SPOILERS*** Great final scene with Samson and Albert going at full speed as they fight off the kidnappers crash through the screen of an outdoor movie theater or drive-in just as it was showing a car chase, no where as good as they were involved in, and crashing through it as if it were a 3D flick without anyone in the audience having to use 3D glasses to see it!
ccthemovieman-1
Are you ready for this? One noted national critic said, "All you have to do is clean up a few sentences and this would be a great movie for the kids." Unreal. Only some clueless Liberal critic would be this stupid about what constitutes something you'd want your kid to see.The film begins with a bunch of language problems capped off my a woman about to give oral sex to a guy in the back seat of a cab. Yup, sounds a good "family film" to me!! (At least, if your family happens to have a dad who is in the White House looking at interns.)Speaking of names, how about Mr. T, Bill Mahar, the Barbarian Brothers (bodybuilders Peter and Paul), Gary Busey and Paul Rodriguez? Does that still sound like "family fare?"Forgetting the family angle, and the "usual suspects" listed above aren't as bad as it may sound, this movie does sport a general "good" and a "bad." The bad is that a lot of it is just plain stupid. But stupid can be funny. Jim Varney made stupid funny as "Ernest P. Worrell," but not many of these lame actors, led by Mr. T., who will never be confused with Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro or Morgan Freeman, can pull it off.The "good" is that there actually are some nice messages in here, mainly that one can pull oneself up and make something out of a bad situation. It's a positive message, overall, believe it or not....so the film is not entirely as dumb as it looks.....sort of.
movieman_kev
Quick name a good movie Bill Maher was ever in? OK, that's too lenient..name one even tolerable film that he's been in.. yeah neither can I. Thankfully, he's regulated to the back-burner of this movie, but sadly the same thing can be said of the only two reasons you'd ever watch this film: Mr. T and Gary Busey, both of which are criminally under used in lue of a tired, episodic, dull, and deadly unfunny tale of Albert (Adam Baldwin), coming to Washington to achieve his dream of working in the Taxi business. He hooks up with his father's Vietnam buddy whom owns a cab company that's in constant danger of bankruptcy."Hilarious Hijynks" (which are rarely even remotely funny) ensue. Joel Schumacher once again proves that it's not what you know in Hollywood, but who you go down on.Eye Candy: Moriah Shannon shows everything as a stripper Busey gives a cab ride to early in the picture; some extras get topless as well My Grade: D
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