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![]() Unlike the heroes, they do not use smartphones. They like living in dirty apartments, drinking weird liquor from clear, labelless bottles and watching football on fuzzy black and white TVs. They wear simply awful sportswear under leather jackets. In tenser scenes, fresh-faced Kim (Maggie Grace) is so stressed she fleetingly morphs into Peter MacNicol's sweaty Dr Janosz Poha of Ghostbusters II. For the more observant, the film’s wardrobe and makeup telegraph what to think: Famke Janssen’s Lenore (pictured above) is one tough mother, with her over-plucked eyebrows and too-dyed black hair. (A shame that Americans aren’t taught to drive a manual transmission but a great advertisement for Mercedes.) The soothing tones of Mills to wife Lenore, chained upside down and bleeding to death, seem almost quirky. ![]() It's ironic that Kim, an unlicensed car driver, has to cram a Turkish taxi through hairy Istanbul traffic bulging with police cars. That's the secret of the whole possible Taken franchise: Neeson plays a man whom we want to believe really exists.įor all its violence and outlandishness, Taken 2 has an enormous sense of humour. In the middle of ridiculous circumstances, he is real. What's vital is that Neeson’s Mills emerges yet again as a blinding beacon of credibility. No matter that the treasures of Istanbul are blown up unnecessarily as daughter Kim tries to locate her kidnapped parents with hand grenades. The film opens over a series of open graves in Albania, with a father (beautifully cast Rade Šerbedžija as squinty, evil Murad) swearing vengeance against Mills’ killing of his even-more-evil slave trading son in Taken. Neeson’s Mills emerges as a blinding beacon of credibility Then there's that other threat: Albanians. Now there are two new threats: she must pass her driving test and she has a boyfriend - youthful cove lucky to be alive when the couple are caught kissing. Certainly, you get the thrusting hero, Bryan Mills (Neeson) who is just as thrillingly bullheaded about his daughter Kim as he was before. It also prods them to watch the first film again when they get home.ĭirector Oliver Megaton takes over from previous director Pierre Morel to make Taken 2 work as both a sequel and standalone story. Doing what every good sequel should, Taken 2 puts the audience back into the exciting world of the first film where they can enjoy those lovable characters as well as a new twist on the story. Donnie actually calls Tommy one in "I Want That Toy!" but not with the same meaning.Though, it's mostly Laser-Guided Karma due to him being a dick. Gus is on the receiving end of physical beatings and slapstick.In "Science Fear", Kurt even tries to actively kill Tommy. Bully Brutality: Kurt and his cronies have no problem beating up Tommy and others, up to the point that one of them carries a bowling ball around in his hat to hit people with.Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: "Just what any school nurse would do.I took temperature, changed his pulse, and then, gave him a brain transplant!".Break the Cutie: Off-screen, implied to have been done to Robotgirl right before "The Return of Robotgirl".Bowdlerise: The final scene in the "Christmas Evil" was redone for the French dub to change the prank gift Gus recieves from Santa: in the original version he gets a fart in a box, in the redone version an apple core.So much so that a pigeon in his body did better on a science test than he usually does. Birthday Episode: "Cheesy Fun for Everyone" serves as one for Robotboy.(It should actually be spelled with only one T, but that's beside the point.) Bilingual Bonus: One of the signs outside Gus' house in "Metal Monster" says "verbotten", which is German for "banned".Big Ol' Unibrow: Donnie, who has just one big black thick line to serve as eyebrows.He seems to have a liking for potato chips, pizza, cookies, chocolate, and hamburgers. He's an absolute asshole to Tommy, always picking on him for no apparent reason. Moshimo's old rival who desires to Take Over the World. ![]() In his second appearance, just seeing Gus makes him turn red.
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