Osmosis Jones Reviews

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.

Feeling ill? Cheer up with Mr Jones!!

A hidden animated gem of film, constantly inventive and very funny. The characters, especially Drix are really entertaining and keep the whole film buzzing along nicely.

Bill Murray is, as always very funny as the guy the whole film is centred around, or should that be 'in'!

So if you want to watch a clever, funny sometimes 'gross' cartoon then this is for you... enjoy!

More clever than funny

It is a film about a guy (Bill Murray) who eats an egg that has previously been in a chimp?s mouth. As a result of this, our uber-slob catches a disease called the meurte rojo (red death). Now how could a couple of ?silly film? directors like the Farrelly?s possibly show what is going on inside of Wally?s body as a result of his laughable eating habits? Ah, I know, they?ll use cartoons. ?Oh great,? I hear you cry, ?it?s going to be just like the Simpsons!? Wrong. There is little of the comic genius of the Simpsons in this little tale. Think of a cross between GCSE biology and ?Who killed Roger Rabbit? and you get the idea. The jokes are all pretty lame and aimed squarely at the younger teen audience. While watching the film I felt myself wincing every time the action changed from the real characters (good) to the cartoon characters (naff); it did genuinely feel as if the remote was playing up and constantly changing between BBC and CBBC; whereas your average adult can just about stand watching slushy and sentimental ?family? films like Beethoven they just become increasingly irritated the more they have to sit through Teenage Mutant Thingymebobs and their ilk. If you are over the age of consent then grow up and read a book; your time is too valuable to be wasted watching this kiddie-fare and even though you?re still on your free trial, watching stuff like this will still cost you, believe me.

Frank Detorri (BILL MURRAY) is not a healthy guy. He knows it, his young daughter Shane (ELENA FRANKLIN) and her teacher Mrs. Boyd (MOLLY SHANNON) know it, his buddy Bob (CHRIS ELLIOTT) knows it? Pretty much anyone who looks at Frank knows he is no fitness poster boy. Frank eats junk food, abstains from exercise, and treats his body like anything but a temple, particularly since the death of his wife, Shanes mother.

This unhealthy approach to life makes the inside of Franks body a bacterial battleground that festers until the day he invokes his ten-second rule (If food hits the ground and you pick it up within ten seconds, you can eat it) on a hard-boiled egg he scoops off the ground at the zoo where he works. As he opens his mouth to ingest the dirty egg we follow right along, travelling down into his swampy insides to discover - the City of Frank - an animated pulsing organic living metropolis that is home to an entire society of characters, cops, crooks, officials, villains and femme fatales. Fortunately for Frank, one of his internal inhabitants is Osmosis Jones (CHRIS ROCK) - a young white blood cell and an officer of the Frank PD.

The cartoon parts, at least, are fun, clever and almost educational. The live-action stuff, however, could use a doctor. It does more than most films in amusingly illuminating things vital and scientific. The animated sequences in Osmosis Jones are funny and clever and thoroughly entertaining, with plenty of lively imagination on display in the transposition of a 1970s cop movie to the inner workings of the human body. It is fun for the entire family!!

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.

ELEGANT!!

ELEGAN! OK, it's a cartoo but, if you are interested in biology, then this is a MUST! It's a new concept story-cartoon-pleasant film. It's a film for all ages range from 6months all the way to 99 years old. I GUARANTEE YOU WILL NOT GET BORED WHILE WATCHING THIS FILM! 10/10.

A good film

I thought that frank was a cartoon but his jurms are a cartoon but it was still not bad and someone said it is not for grown ups but my father said it is and I think it is for grown ups too.

Extremely clever film, fun for children AND adults equally

I had seen many good reviews for this film so I thought I'd try it out - I'm extremely glad I did! Thoroughly enjoyed every second of it. Bill Murray is superb, as is the actress playing his daughter and also all of the voices behind the cartoon characters. It is also a very educational film, so if you want your children to learn and really enjoy themselves at the same time, then this is the film to show them. Loads of really, Really, REALLY clever, funny ideas are constantly present throughout the film which is one of the reasons it's so brilliant. Highly recommended viewing for the whole family.