Mihai Toma
Jones is a disgraced police cell, living inside Frank's body and trying to protect it from intruders. With the help of his new teammate, a pill recently swallowed by their host, they must fight against a very serious threat who plans to kill Frank in less than 48 hours.Contrary to my expectations, this movie isn't totally animated as the series it's based on, Frank and his miserable life being filmed in reality. It wouldn't have been such a big fuss if the actors weren't completely retarded and unpleasant, playing stupid roles in a very bad manner. Not to say that it was gross in a lot of such scenes...The story is as linear, expected and simplistic as it gets, so you'd think that it can provide something through its animated part...Well it doesn't. It's animation is O.K. but nothing more, voice acting is sometimes off while the action is boring and mostly predictable, when it's not too stupid to endure. Thankfully they thought to insert some good music throughout the picture, making the experience a bit more "enjoyable".Maybe I had high expectations from this movie as the series provided a pleasant view for me as a child, but except the two main characters, it didn't have anything for me to enjoy. Unfortunately, as a whole, it's a big letdown which I cannot recommend to anyone.
ironhorse_iv
While, this animation movie might appeal to somebody with somewhat bad taste like me. The truth is, that the film doesn't work for everybody. Don't get me wrong, there were plenty of somewhat sophistical & adult-driven clever pun-entertaining moments in the animation sequences directed by Tom Sito if you like this movie & the animation wasn't half bad, even if the very noticeable poor early CGI mixed with hand-drawn, made this film, a bit dated. It was still somewhat beautiful. However, the life-action, unfunny childish toilet humor sequences from the Farrelly brothers, kinda dumb down, the film to standstill. Because of that, I can't say, this movie is a good movie. Nevertheless, I also can't say, it's awful. It's somewhat in the middle. Still, there is plenty of flaws in the film to point out. One of the biggest complains of the movie produced by Warner Bros, is the fact that the life action scenes with Frank Detorre (Bill Murray) doesn't intermixed well, with the hand-drawn animation in his body. It's kinda jarring to see, actors reenacted short scenes on camera film footage, only to be badly edited into a film, mostly, full of animation cels. In my opinion, the whole movie should be, all animated! Yes, I know, it would be, more expensive to produce, but at least, the movie would had been, a little more, well-made. Another problem between the live action and animation parts is the pacing. While, the animation move in a pretty solid action pack pace, with white blood cell, officer Osmosis Jones (Voiced by Chris Rock) having to team up, with a cold pill, Drixenol "Drix" Koldreliff (Voiced by David Hyde Pierce), in order to stop a deadly virus, known as Thrax (Voiced by Laurence Fishburne) from killing Frank in a pretty generic buddy cop clichés storyline. I really didn't care for the repetitive gross out and pointless dialogue scenes that they gave Bill Murray to do. Honestly, without spoiling the movie, too much, there was no reason, why Frank needed to reenact with comedian, Molly Shannon's character, as she wasn't any help nor a major foe for Frank. The film would be, better off, without her. Have the film establish, that Jones accidentally causing the death of Frank's wife, by allowing a virus to escape Frank's body, instead of him, causing the vomiting at the science fair, that got Frank in trouble. At least, the movie would had more stalks, plus it would be a better backstory and reason, why the depressed Frank is letting himself go, health wise than what the film gave Murray, with Frank being annoying clueless and too unlikeable lazy at being healthy. Also, I think the movie would had made more sense, if Frank was working at a desk job at the zoo, rather than the field. Why? It's because, it just hard to believe, that Frank would be, really that unhealthy with all the manual back breaking work, he does, like shoveling and washing animals in the hot sun. A desk job works better, because of the lack of physical activity. Sadly, the movie doesn't do this, and the live action scenes really dragged. Honestly, the whole conflict with Frank, choosing a trip to Buffalo over his daughter, Shane (Elena Franklin) camping trip was also not needed. Regardless of him, going or not, Frank's health would had still decline, due to Thrax. Also, with all anthropomorphization aside, anyone who's passed a biology class knows that germs & viruses don't work even remotely like they're depicted in the film. Though they can be harmful to the host that they infest, they aren't biologically programmed to quickly kill it. They mostly reproduce by multiplying and spreading throughout its body over time, feeding on the resources. Any harmful symptoms are simply side-effects of over population and damage of cells. Regardless of the artistic license with the science. Laurence Fishburne was amazing as the villain. The things, his character does, is very haunting and his voice acting matches that. It really surprised me, that's this movie was PG, seeing, how Thrax rips, another germ apart, and cause, a saliva boat to explode in flames. I thought, it would be, at least, PG-13, due to the violence and bodily humor. It didn't help that the lyrics to the Kid Rock's song wasn't kid-friendly as well. This movie is surely, not PG! Gross humor, aside, I didn't like, how the film handle the mentally handicap, obesity, and other issues. Regardless of the botch crudely done moral message, 'Osmosis Jones' is still truly imaginative, innovative and fun with alright voice acting work, even if main star, Chris Rock was a bit annoying with all his standard, generic cockiness, yelling. Still, I felt like I need a detox, after watching this film. Like Junk Food, films like this, should make up a minimal part of your life. Not fully. For the sake of your loves ones. Just stick to healthy & smarter animation choices like 2015's 'Inside Out'. But if you want to junk out on something really childish. Then, you got this film. This autopsy of a mess.
