Osmosis Jones

Gets under your skin with laughs that are fast, slick and slippery and with visuals as vivid as anything this side of Demerol. more

Oscillates between streaky black comedy and sanitary instruction. more

Surprise of surprises, it's a blast. more

Resuscitates the filmgoing summer with a vital jolt of pure piss and vinegar. more

Warts and all, Osmosis Jones is the year's ultimate bodily functions comedy. more

A genuinely eccentric comedy that explodes with funny ideas and expresses most of them in wildly original animation.

Likely to entertain kids, who seem to like jokes about anatomical plumbing. For adults, there is the exuberance of the animation and the energy of the whole movie, which is just plain clever. more

Should you take the kids? Boys 8 to 11 are the target audience for this gross-out film. A better question might be, should they take the parents? more

In a dismal summer for movies, Osmosis Jones is a fresh breath of foul air. more

Often very smart about being silly. more

Osmosis Jones is one of those movies you almost feel like you have to apologize for liking. Well, forget about it, because this is a very funny and downright entertaining movie with no class whatsoever! The scenes bounce between live acting and full animation, determined by whether we are outside or inside the body of Frank. The casting for this silly and peculiar movie was expertly chosen for both live and voice roles. Live, we have Bill Murray as Frank, in his most disgusting character since Caddyshack. Chris Elliot plays his brother Bob, and manages to challenge Murray in the... more

I've been a 5th grade teacher for 5 years and have shown this movie each year as a reward after learning about the human body in science/health. The kids, for the most part, really enjoy it. There is just enough nasty stuff in there to gross them out - which they love! As a teacher, I just love the entire analogy of the story - every little cell in the body is working toward the same goal - keeping Frank alive. The kids like it, and I also enjoy it. There are some moments in there that are more adult humor that the kids don't even catch, so I'm able to get a laugh out of it. more

Osmosis Jones is a really good movie, if a bit... well... disgusting at times. The plot revolves around a white blood cell named Osmosis Jones (voiced by Chris Rock) who serves as a police officer in the body of a guy named Frank (Bill Murray). When a dastardly virus named Thrax (voiced by Laurence Fishburne) invades Frank's body, it's up to the immunity force to stop him, and Ozzy is teamed up with a cold tablet named Drixobensomedaphedramine, or Drix for short (voiced by the always-wonderful David Hyde Pierce). Meanwhile, the pompous blood cell politician in charge of Frank's body, Mayor... more