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2001 Certificate PG
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With OSMOSIS JONES, triple threat writer-director-producer brothers Bobby and Peter Farrelly (THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY) successfully move into the live-action/animation genre. Frank (Bill Murray), a scruffy, overweight zoo keeper, revels in his unhealthy habits much to the chagrin of his young daughter, Shane (Elena .. Read more

Starring Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce, Brandy Norwood
Director Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Genres Comedy

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Osmosis Jones

With OSMOSIS JONES, triple threat writer-director-producer brothers Bobby and Peter Farrelly (THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY) successfully move into the live-action/animation genre. Frank (Bill Murray), a scruffy, overweight zoo keeper, revels in his unhealthy habits much to the chagrin of his young daughter, Shane (Elena Franklin). When Frank eats a dirty hard-boiled egg, the contagion-filled food enters The City of Frank, under the jurisdiction of germ-fighting white blood cell, Osmosis Jones (voiced by Chris Rock). A renegade cop in desperate need of a good case, Jones teams up with Drix (voiced by David Hyde Pierce), a superhero cold pill sent in to fight Frank's sore throat. The duo soon discovers that the troublesome egg carried a particularly evil germ, Thrax (voiced by Laurence Fishburne), who makes dastardly plans while hiding behind seemingly harmless cold symptoms. Jones and Drix struggle to convince Mayor Phlegmming (voiced by William Shatner) and his pretty aide, Leah (voiced by Brandy Norwood) of the danger, and to find the silky speaker, Red Death, before he does Frank true harm. Full of inventive sight gags and typical Farrelly gross-out humor, OSMOSIS JONES is a funny, clever blend of buddy cop romp, cartoon sci-fi, and fable, for both kids and adults.

Starring Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce, Brandy Norwood, Bill Murray, Molly Shannon
Director Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Studio WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 35 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Comedy
Language DVD: English
Dubbed German, Spanish
Hearing-impaired English, German
Subtitles DVD: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Released DVD: 18 Mar 2002
Production year: 2001
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (6) of Osmosis Jones

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Bobby and Peter Farrelly have finally come up with the best film of their lowbrow careers — an intriguing mix of live-action and inventive animation starring arch slob Bill Murray. He plays Frank, a sloppy zoo worker with bad eating habits who becomes infected with a killer cold virus (voiced by Laurence Fishburne) intent on murdering him within 48 hours. Here's where the audience gets to explore Murray's animated innards, “the city of Frank”, and meet maverick police corpuscule Osmosis Jones (Chris Rock) and his cold-cure pal Drix (Frasier's David Hyde Pierce). The biological puns on bodily functions and fluids are amusing though obviously aimed at the younger end of the audience, and yet there are some imaginative ideas — the stomach as an airport, with the colon as the launch pad; lawyers congregate inside a haemorrhoid and the Mafia relax in an armpit. Above all, credit should go to Marc Hyman's script and to animation directors Piet Kroon and Tom Sito, as rarely have body parts been so funny.

    • Radio Times
  • 1 stars out of 4

    A comedy that mixes some dull live action with much more inventive animation, in which the body is seen as a vast metropolis of different districts, giving the opportunity for parodies of many movie genres.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Not a well known movie in the UK but having seen the trailer my kid's asked to watch it. A great mix of live action and animation that had the kid's glued to the screen. Bill Murray gets a cold virus and inside his body Osmosis Jones and his gang battle to beat the germs. Some educational value with a good helping of fun. My six year old son and 8 year old daughter loved it. Probably best suited to children around these ages and older.

      • A customer from BRENTWOOD
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Great film that makes me want to sit down with the kids and watch Ozzy & Drix on Cartoon Network with the kids. The animated stuff is great and the story great fun for all the family. Bill Murray does a fine job of being ill... and while aspects of the final sequence are a little tenuous, you can be foregiving because the rest of the movie has been so much fun. Recommended for a Saturday afternoon with the kids.

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    • With OSMOSIS JONES, triple threat writer-director-producer brothers Bobby and Peter Farrelly (THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY) successfully move into the live-action/animation genre. Frank (Bill Murray),...