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Osmosis Jones

Play trailer Poster for Osmosis Jones PG,  2001,  1h 38m,  Kids & Family/ Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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55% Tomatometer 108 Reviews 42% Popcornmeter 50,000+ Ratings
A cutting-edge, live action/animated action adventure comedy about one white blood cell's (Chris Rock) race against the biological clock to hunt down and destroy a lethal new virus (Laurence Fishburne). Bill Murray stars as Frank, in whose body the action unfolds.
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Critics Consensus

The animated portion of Osmosis is zippy and fun, but the live-action portion is lethargic.

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Nell Minow Common Sense Media Dec 26, 2010
3/5
Mostly animated PG film has gross-out humor, violence. Go to Full Review
Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle Mar 10, 2003
2/5
The ideas are there, hints of genius, but no one ignites them. Go to Full Review
Peter Bradshaw Guardian Nov 11, 2001
It's entertaining stuff, and the unintentional topicality adds spice. Go to Full Review
Dan DiNicola The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY) Apr 30, 2024
C+
It's imaginative, ingenious and dramatically flat. Still, it may satisfy his who will learn a lot about the nasty effects of junk food on the human body. Go to Full Review
Korey Coleman Double Toasted May 11, 2020
It sometimes lets its imagination cut loose in a fun way. But a lot of the movie is just puns, body humor, jokes...but some of the parts, they do very well with it... Go to Full Review
Erik Anderson Awards Watch Apr 7, 2020
3.5/4
...one of the smartest, funniest and most eye-popping films of the year. Go to Full Review
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Ron S Apr 2, 2019 A love it or hate it experience. Osmosis Jones has both a good side and a bad side when it comes to overall quality. The animation is actually really good, just like the world they created. Giving us a unique anatomy and function of the human body towards a children's audience. The characters could've been developed more here, but this part of the movie is somewhat enjoyable. Everything in the live-action world is a mess. The Farrelly's really chock it up here with terrible comedy, bad writing, weak storytelling, and lousy characterization. Kids might not like it, but adults will appreciate the subject matter. Your tolerance for all of the above will result in many different opinions on this 2001 picture. See more
Anakin S Feb 10, 2019 Drix and Ozzy are likeable characters, the animation is beautiful and the movie has many creative ideas. but all of that is ruined by all of the live action scenes with Bill Murray. if there was a movie that I want it to have a remake it would be osmosis jones. maybe if the frank wasn't such a hatable character than maybe the move would have been better See more
Oct 30, 2018 Lmao this movie changed my life. It put me right in my feels
Albus M Oct 24, 2018 Good concept, just maybe not that well executed.
Anakin R Jul 3, 2018 The Farrelly Brothers uneven combination of animated and live action comedy has some imaginative sequences but an uninteresting plot. See more
Draco G Jun 8, 2018 Osmosis Jones is actually a decent and underrated movie. It's just the live-action portions of the movie that tend to ruin the experience. The animated scenes are really enjoyable. The animation is gorgeous, the voice acting is good and there's tons of creativity. For a movie set inside a man's body, the world-building is really impressive. Stuff like the brain being a cinema, armpits being saunas for gangster germs and zits being nightclubs that are probably going to always be temporary are ideas that sound so simplistic yet so creative. And Thrax, my God, is that villain scary. Then there's the live-action scenes. I'd give this movie a higher rating but the live-action scenes ruined it for me. The Farrelly brothers' type of humour feels really out-of-place here and it's not very funny. In fact, the live-action scenes seem to be added in as an afterthought. It constantly shoves the message of "eat healthy" in your face. I'd have preferred it if the movie was just the animated scenes and the live-action stuff only appears when it overlaps with the animated stuff or when the live-action scenes are actually crucial to the plot. Have I mentioned that this movie seems unable to decide who its target audience is? The live-action scenes seem to be targeted towards children due to their use of gross-out humour while the animated scenes seem to have older kids and teenagers in mind due to some of the radar-dodging jokes. To its credit, some of the puns are actually really clever. It should be noted that this movie was going to be rated PG-13 initially so that factor was what probably led to this movie bombing at the box office. As an animated movie, Osmosis Jones is a decent, underrated flick that has a stunning amount of creativity but as a live-action film, it's bad. See more
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Movie Info

Synopsis A cutting-edge, live action/animated action adventure comedy about one white blood cell's (Chris Rock) race against the biological clock to hunt down and destroy a lethal new virus (Laurence Fishburne). Bill Murray stars as Frank, in whose body the action unfolds.
Director
Peter Farrelly, Robert Farrelly
Producer
Peter Farrelly, Robert Farrelly, Bradley Thomas, Zak Penn, Dennis Edwards
Screenwriter
Marc Hyman
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co
Warner Brothers, Conundrum Entertainment
Rating
PG (Bodily Humor)
Genre
Kids & Family, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 10, 2001, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 3, 2007
Box Office (Gross USA)
$13.6M
Runtime
1h 38m
Sound Mix
Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, SDDS, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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