Funny / Taken

Taken:

• The moment Peter gets creamed by a bus when he thinks he is safe can be unintentionally funny.
• As Bryan is "negotiating" with the prostitute, we can see a cab-driver laughing and making a kissing gesture.
• When Jean-Claude and Bryan talk.
  Jean-Claude: We need to find the spott—
  Bryan: I found him. He's dead.
  (Jean-Claude stops as the realization sinks in)
  Jean-Claude: ...You found him that way?
• When Bryan loses his police tail, he gives him the middle finger.
• When Bryan is bluffing the Albanians, he says a satellite is watching them 24/7. One of them discreetly looks outside and up at the sky.
• Bryan unloads his clip into Patrice Saint-Clair, who is lying in an elevator, and then leaves — followed by the elevator door obediently closing and making a contented "ding" sound. It's quickly followed by a female partygoer getting horrified by Patrice's corpse, but still.
• "We can negoti-" BANG! That either makes you laugh or pump your fist saying "hell yeah!"
• Someone turned the Electric Torture scene into... a commercial. It's not real.

Taken 2:

• Bryan finds out Kim has a new boyfriend. The sheer awkwardness of the situation is hilarious.
  • Lenore pleading Bryan not to check his background is the topping of the ice cake.
    • Especially funny is the way Lenore keeps trying to make him promise that he won't track down Jamie, and while Bryan claims he's going to give Kim her space, he won't quite promise... so Lenore calls Kim four times trying to warn her (Kim, answer your phone for once!).
• Bryan holds a guy at gunpoint to get another mook to back off, threatening to blow the guy's head off, the mook just shoots the guy being held hostage and tries to kill Bryan anyways.
• While Kim is being chased by two Albanians across the rooftops, one of them tries to jump over a gap after her, and ends up smacking his neck into a cable and falling to the ground. Whether he survived that fall or not may come off as Black Comedy.
• Bryan and Kim analyze their roles in a high-speed chase.
  Kim: I can't do this!
  Bryan: Can you shoot?
  (Beat)
  Kim: No.
  Bryan: THEN DRIVE!
• Bryan asks Kim if there's anything she'd like to do in Istanbul. Apparently, she'd like to go to a dance club! Bryan's miserable face as he's sitting at the bar of the dark, noisy club is pretty funny. Probably not the family fun time he had in mind.
• Jamie and Bryan meeting at the end. There's something hilarious about Bryan's incredibly pissed off face.
  • "Don't shoot this one. I really like him." It's especially amusing if you consider that Bryan probably thought Kim was joking.

Taken 3:

• After a somewhat elaborate setup, Bryan sneaks into Kim's school to meet up with her in a stall in the women's bathroom. They share a tender moment... and then Kim tells Bryan that she's pregnant. The normally unflappable Bryan is floored. Even funnier is that he tries to play it off by claiming he had low-sugar blood from not eating.
• When Bryan jacks a cop's car, radio, and cell, the officer warns him it will end badly. Bryan's response?
  Bryan: Don't be such a pessimist.

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