Osmosis Jones

OSMOSIS JONES / (2001) ***1/2 (out of four)By Blake French:Consider the Farrelly brothers. The majority of a crowd would think of adjectives like shocking and envelope pushing, to describe them, but the most shocking thing about "Osmosis Jones," is the... Read more at imdb.com

Frank (Bill Murray) is a widow without hygienic and bad alimentary habits. He eats food that felt on the floor without cleaning, he does not wash his hands before eating and he eats only junk food. His daughter keeps unsuccessfully... Read more at imdb.com

Osmosis Jones is a comedy of human proportions, I guess. It works enough and when it works well it's a good movie. Although when you think about it the plot-line inside Frank's body (frank is played by Bill Murray with... Read more at imdb.com

I thought this movie was very good. The people leaving bad reviews are being too critical. This movie was meant to be fun. The way the inside of the body is a city, the white blood cells are the police,... Read more at imdb.com

Okay, I think I've found the Sadly Underrated Movie of the Year. I think that, between this and "the Iron Giant", Warner Brothers Animation has GOT to spring for a better promotion department. Really, all they'd have to say is... Read more at imdb.com

I wouldn't say this is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, but there is definitely some original comedy here. I thought it was a very inventive story, and quite interesting. What shocked me more than anything about this... Read more at imdb.com

This movie is simply fun and entertaining to watch. I remembered searching for a fantasy movie which similar to "Fantastic Voyage" and this one really got it all.It is even better this movie can be made alive instead of just... Read more at imdb.com

I can't believe this movie made such little money it's sad cause it's a very cute and original idea. It's fun to watch how the pill and blood cell travel to different parts of the body. And Bill Murray is... Read more at imdb.com

I was appalled and disgusted at the blunt humor this movie offered when I first saw it in the theater, only because of its shock value. I mean they don't leave any of the bodily humor to your imagination. However,... Read more at imdb.com

As an aesthete, this movie goes against everything I stand for, but I found it nonetheless very entertaining. It was like a peculiar yet satisfying mix between the Incredible Journey, Toy Story, and Lethal Weapon or Rush Hour (the whole... Read more at imdb.com

If you are like me and predisposed to laugh at vulgar humor involving farts, burps and boogers, you'll like "Osmosis Jones. It's here that we meet detective Osmosis Jones (Chris Rock), a white blood cell who blew it on a big case years ago and has never regained the trust of the citizens of Frank. ... Full Review

The Farrelly Brothers, those inspired masters of lowbrow laughs ("Dumb and Dumber," "Me, Myself and Irene"), have so long been adolescent boys in the grown-up world of filmmaking that it's only fitting they make a genuine adolescent movie. It has zippy energy, visual imagination, inspired puns and all the fart jokes, booger gags, and vomit spews a 13-year-old could ask for, yet it's grounded in a harmless innocence. ... Full Review

While the animation is certainly colorful to look at, Osmosis Jones' story is a hackneyed one. The City of Frank is a brightly animated (animation directed by Piet Kroon and Tom Sito) cellular municipality where Osmosis Jones is a typical rogue cop looking for another chance. ... Full Review

Less adult-oriented than most Farrelly efforts, Jones offers the booger-and-fart humor that young teens eat up but refrains from the scatological and sexual angles that often make parents cringe. Also disappointing is Rock himself. ... Full Review

At its best, "Osmosis Jones" is a cagey refresher course in physiology. You have entered the dyspeptic universe of "Osmosis Jones," a gleefully inventive journey into one man's gastrointestinal system. ... Full Review

The film that torpedoed Warner Brothers' animation arm (budget: US$75 million; domestic gross: US$13.6 million) probably stiffed because it appears to fall between audience demographics. ... Full Article

Peter (left, white hat) and Bobby Farrelly (top center, white shirt) direct Bill Murray (right) and Elena Franklin (center) at a restaurant in Plymouth, Ma. ... Full Article

plasmatic skin.Tired of his beat -- Frank's mouth -- he wants to go where the action is: Frank's digestive tract, where he can chase renegade germs and prove his mettle as a real cop. ... Full Article

" Osmosis Jones " is like the dark side of those animated educational films depicting the goings-on in the bowels. It takes us inside the human body for a tour of such uncharted neighborhoods as the Lower East Backside, and... ... Full Article

Potential, talent wasted in 'Osmosis Jones' by Michael J. Eiff A Kinnopio film writer       P eter and Bobby Farrelly ( There's Something About Mary ) have made gross-out comedies a standard, household genre in contemporary cinema -- rare is... ... Full Article