Osmosis Jones

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.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Oscillates between streaky black comedy and sanitary instruction.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Surprise of surprises, it's a blast.

Los Angeles Times Jan Stuart

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

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

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

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

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

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?

Boston Globe Jay Carr

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

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.

The New York Times A.O. Scott

Often very smart about being silly.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Often wickedly funny, but about halfway through, the premise becomes -- shall we say? -- intestinally overextended.

Variety Robert Koehler

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

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.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

When we're outside Frank's body, Osmosis Jones drags. When we're inside him, it zooms.

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.

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.

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.

San Francisco Chronicle Wesley Morris

Osmosis is really an occasion for the brothers to take their culture- debasing scatology to a PG crowd.

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.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Young viewers may guffaw, but seasoned fans of "There's Something About Mary" will be disappointed.

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.

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)

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.

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.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

More than a bad movie, it's an anti-movie.

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.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Cathartically disgusting adventure movie.

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.