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Osmosis Jones | Year: 2001 Classification: Themenwelten - Preis-Hits unter 10 EUR - Komödie & Drama Directed: - Peter Farrelly - Bobby Farrelly Actors/Actresses: - Laurence Fishburne - Molly Shannon Clever idea features every bodily function gag imaginable A reasonably entertaining blend of live action and animation with the live action scenes directed by the Farrelly brothers.<BR>Bill Murray is a lazy zookeeper who is unable to take proper care of himself. Inside his body live animated blood cells. One, a cop named Osmosis Jones (voiced by Chris Rock) decides to try and save Murray by challenging the orders of his superior (voiced by William Shatner) and give Murray the chance to turn his life around. The movie also features the voice talents of Brandy, Larry Fishburne, Ron Howard and David Hyde-Pierce. Kid Rock also makes an appearance in animated form as Kidney Rock.<BR>OSMOSIS JONES is a movie all ages ought to enjoy, even if the animation is a bit iffy at times, but in general it's a clever, humorous piece of entertainment with Rock and Hyde-Pierce (as Jones's partner) providing excellent voice performances. As with SHREK, the character animation vaguely resembles the actors. Larry Fishburne is especially effective and menacing as the bad guy. I would also advise viewers not to eat during the movie as there is a rather low rent mucus gag and an amusing zit gag. Basically every bodily function joke you can think of is present in OSMOSIS JONES. Hilariously satirical, and pretty cool Osmosis Jones is a pretty cool movie that is composed of 1/3 Gross Out Comedy, 1/3 Satire and 1/3 Buddy action flick. And 2/3 are done well. Let's face it, the real life part stunk, but the rest of it more than makes up for it.<BR> This is the story of a guy named Osmosis Jones, a white blood cell voiced by Chris Rock. He lives inside the body of Frank, a slobby zookeeper who's body is likened to a city: it has it's dump (guess where), power plant (heart), ghetto (liver), and even natural disasters (cramps and sicknesses.) So when Frank injests a hard boiled egg that has been in the mouth of a monkey and on the ground, it's bad news. Especially when the egg hosts the Red Death virus named Thrax (my favorite character), voiced superbly by a evilly suave and utterly unrecognizable Laurence Fishburne. Thrax wants to kill Frank in record time (48 hours) by damaging his hypothermis gland and heating Frank up like "A sidewalk on a summer day..." Thrax snickers.<BR> To help Osmosis fight Thrax, enter the by-the-book and not particularly bright cherry-flavored cold pill Drix (David Hyde Peirce)who wants to prove his worth by curing Frank.<BR> The In-Jokes, such as taking you're girlfriend down to the kidneys to see the stones and an armpit being a sauna for gangsters make it funny. The live-action parts are disgusting with vomit jokes and require fast forwarding. And the action scenes near the end, involving car chases and fistfights, are just cool. It's a little violent within the body; Thrax's sicle-like index finger is used for slicing apart those unfortunate cells that stand in his way and for setting fire to his surroundings. Lots of pyromania. Rock, Peirce, and especially Fishburne lend excellent voice talent to this movie. But not for the squeamish. Surprisingly funny and refreshing. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Peter and Bobby Farrelly, the men behind the outrageous "There's Something About Mary," helmed the directorial department of "Osmosis Jones," a surprisingly funny combination of animation and live action. I am somewhat stunned by their willingness to do a project that reaches nowhere near the R rating, and also by the fact that their most innocent film is also their funniest yet. The movie takes us into the body of Frank (Bill Murray), a repulsive zoo worker whose daughter constantly nags him about improving his health. A shot of Frank consuming a soiled hard-boiled egg takes us into the insides of his body, a densely populated city made up of the citizen cells who drive cars, walk, talk, and take on various other human characteristics. As the rest of the story goes, a Red Death virus named Thrax (voiced by Laurence Fishburne) begins wreaking havoc in Frank's body, stirring the suspicion of white blood cell Osmosis Jones (Chris Rock). Teaming up with cold medicine particle Drix (David Hyde Pierce), Jones defies the law and the uncaring hand of the mayor to save Frank's life. While it's not as intelligent or advanced as such animated features as "Toy Story" or "Shrek," "Osmosis Jones" comes up a success on the basis of its clean humor and back-to-basics animation. With the latest craze in computer animation, such films have become increasingly abundant. This film does have elements of computer animation, but not so much that the entire movie has the look and feel of it; in a sense, it returns to the roots of animation that have been absent from theaters for quite some time, and gives it a very funny appeal. The screenwriters also conjure up a delectable deluge of comic one-liners and in-jokes to tickle the fancy. The film is rated PG for bodily humor, though I doubt much of it, with the exception of vomit and flatulence, was grounds for such a rating. The dialogue is kept clean and breezy, from variations on slang ("You're up a spit creek without a paddle!") to jokes made funnier by the setting (at one point, a police officer asks his buddy about his weekend plans, to which he replies, "Me and my girlfriend are going down to the Kidneys to see the Stones"). The voice talents bring lighthearted whimsy to this fantasy, featuring comics marvels Chris Rock and David Hyde Pierce as our heroes. Rock gives a better comedic performance under the restrictions of the MPAA rating, and Pierce brings back wonderful recollections of his role as the praying mantis in "A Bug's Life." As for the human side... so-so acting, but our interest has become geared more towards the animated scenes that human intrusion becomes dreary. The overall effect of "Osmosis Jones" is somewhat reserved. There is no striking purpose (combining live action and animation is nothing new), and the movie seems a bit modest in its approach to the audience, as if it somehow anticipates failure. Yet, despite all of this, there are genuinely funny moments that recall the spirit of films which appeal to all age sets, and it's nothing more than a fun time-waster. Buy Osmosis Jones at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Osmosis Jones Search with the Priority Search Engine on Osmosis Jones This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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