Osmosis Jones: Critic Reviews

It's entertaining stuff, and the unintentional topicality adds spice.

It should have been placed in a hazardous waste container, encased in concrete and dumped into the Farrelly brothers' septic tank.

It's no funnier than your average grade-school biology lesson and less pedagogically useful than your typical Farrelly brothers comedy.

A hilarious, hellzapoppin' hybrid.

The animated sequences in Osmosis Jones are funny and clever and thoroughly entertaining, with plenty of lively imagination on display in the transposition of a 1970s cop movie to the inner workings of the human body.

Remains stubbornly one-dimensional.

The PG rating is deceptive.

I enjoyed it. It's a fun, dumb and gross comedy that kids will love.

The plot's so much old rote, and the characters have all the personality of protoplasm; but the anthropomorphising of this microcosmic metropolis is wonderfully imaginative, and the dialogue decidedly spiffy.

You'll probably find yourself laughing at Bill Murray farting. I did.

It is funny, original, and even contains a genuine, good-natured theme.

...the whole thing eventually becomes bogged down in its own plot.

The ideas are there, hints of genius, but no one ignites them.

I'd advise attendees of this film to go on an empty stomach, but if you're willing to endure the Farrellys' warped sense of humor and Murray's scratching, squirting, gas-passing antics, Osmosis Jones offers some lighthearted fun.

The over-riding question with all comedies is 'Are there many laughs in it?' Luckily, the answer is yes - there are lots of great jokes, and not all of the scatological kind.

The design of this colorful interior metropolis is both clever and biologically correct.

The animated scenes directed by Piet Kroon and Tom Sito occupy most of the running time and are an imaginative and eyecatching tour of the human body.

Deserves all the praise showered upon the overrated Shrek.

Leave it to the Farrelly brothers to once again gross us out.

The script has just enough clever jokes to keep us chuckling, even if it never scales the heights of classic comedy.

...it's up to the animation to keep us entertained, and those sections turn out to be much too predictable.

This is the kind of premise you'd expect to be filmed as a five-minute educational video, if at all. But this feature is 95 minutes and never drags.

While it's certainly not among the best movies of the year, Osmosis Jones is not a film that deserved to end up $60 million dollars in the hole.

If there wasn't any live action and the animation bit had been fleshed out more then this could've been a highlight of the season...

An enjoyable, if vastly underachieving, diversion.