Robert Sawyer once quipped that he never understood why it’s the good movies that get remade. That it is films like Dune, or The Phantom Menace that should be remade.

Well, today after the preview of The Manchurian Candidate, I saw one for the remake of Taxi, the Luc Besson movie. The new (American) version takes place in New York, and the driver is a trash-talking, uh-uh-honeying, finger-snapping Queen Latifah (as if there’s ever any other QL). And she’s helping the cop catch a gang of scantily clad supermodel bank robbers.

It was so base and trashy, I honestly thought they were joking. What were they thinking? Well, probably something along the lines of “Duuuuuuude… Yaaaaaa…”