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Osmosis Jones
Warner Bros.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG for bodily humor
Starring
Chris Rock,
Laurence Fishburne,
David Hyde Pierce,
Brandy Norwood,
William Shatner,
Molly Shannon,
Chris Elliott,
and
Bill Murray
A cutting-edge, live action/animated action adventure comedy about one white blood cell's (Rock) race against the biological clock to hunt down and destroy a lethal new virus (Fishburne). Bill Murray stars as Frank, in whose body the action unfolds. (Warner Brothers)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Marc Hyman
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Bobby Farrelly
Peter Farrelly
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 13, 2001
Video: November 13, 2001
Theatrical: August 10, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Gets under your skin with laughs that are fast, slick and slippery and with visuals as vivid as anything this side of Demerol.

83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Oscillates between streaky black comedy and sanitary instruction.

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Surprise of surprises, it's a blast.

80
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
Warts and all, Osmosis Jones is the year's ultimate bodily functions comedy.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A genuinely eccentric comedy that explodes with funny ideas and expresses most of them in wildly original animation.
80
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Resuscitates the filmgoing summer with a vital jolt of pure piss and vinegar.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
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?

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
In a dismal summer for movies, Osmosis Jones is a fresh breath of foul air.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.

70
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Often very smart about being silly.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Often wickedly funny, but about halfway through, the premise becomes -- shall we say? -- intestinally overextended.

70
Variety
Robert Koehler
The most extensive interplay of live action and animation since "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

63
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
David Hyde Pierce is hilarious as Drix, a take-charge dose of medicine. No performer is better at wringing laughs from an unflappable --- make that semi-flappable - delivery.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
When we're outside Frank's body, Osmosis Jones drags. When we're inside him, it zooms.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The animation sequences -- the movie's best moments -- hurtle by at breakneck speed, while the live-action portions are a bit sluggish.

60
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
The flat, gross-out live-action bits, directed by (surprise!) Peter and Bobby Farrelly, don't jive with the zippy, Tex Avery-style animated segments, directed by former storyboard artists Piet Kroon and Tom Sito.
60
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Too crude for the kids and not crude enough for connoisseurs of the "Something About Mary" school of hair jism and balls caught in zippers, Osmosis Jones seems doomed to fall between the cracks.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Wesley Morris
Osmosis is really an occasion for the brothers to take their culture- debasing scatology to a PG crowd.

50
New Times (L.A.)
Robert Wilonsky
That Osmosis Jones plays like a sloppy hodgepodge is no surprise: The live-action scenes were done by the Farrellys, the animation by Sito and Kroon (whose names sounds like bodily functions), and the script was penned by another first-timer, Marc Hyman. Nobody seems to be on the same page.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Young viewers may guffaw, but seasoned fans of "There's Something About Mary" will be disappointed.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
While there's no denying that the film's animation is technically impressive and is sometimes quite clever, its inventiveness is frequently at the service of gags so distasteful that gag is the operative word.

50
Miami Herald
Chris Hewitt
Classy voice work (intriguingly, the hero, heroine and villain are all voiced by black actors -- Chris Rock, Brandy and Laurence Fishburne)

50
Salon.com
Bill Wyman
Remains stubbornly one-dimensional. The gags are so resoundingly and innocently pre-adolescent that it's really hard to see how the film managed a PG rating.

40
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
The ideas are there, hints of genius, but no one ignites them. Add Osmosis Jones to that list of universal enigmas, and, more specifically, how the Farrelly Brothers could have done so little with so much.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
More than a bad movie, it's an anti-movie.

38
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
It's no funnier than your average grade-school biology lesson and less pedagogically useful than your typical Farrelly brothers comedy.

30
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Cathartically disgusting adventure movie.

10
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Should never have been released, not even on video. It should have been placed in a hazardous waste container, encased in concrete and dumped into the Farrelly brothers' septic tank.


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