Osmosis Jones
Directed by Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
- action
- adventure
- animation
- comedy
- family
- science fiction
The story
A white blood cell policeman, with the help of a cold pill, must stop a deadly virus from destroying the human they live in, Frank.
What it’s like
Bright, saturated cartoon anatomy: a hand-animated, live-action hybrid where the inside of a human body is rendered as a crowded, neon-lit city of arteries, cell walls and sticky bodily gunk, all glossy primary colours and busy, cluttered frames. The camera rarely sits still, swooping through vessels and pushing in on slapstick set-pieces, and the sound is loud and jokey, with buddy-cop banter, rap-inflected comic voices and a thumping, heavy-handed score. The mood is hyperactive and goofy rather than cozy, a scrappy, sugar-rush energy with frequent gross-out gags about mucus, bodily functions and cold symptoms. Its intensity is cartoonish: plenty of mock-violence and explosions, a few tense shootouts with viruses, and crude humour, but no real gore or cruelty, and nothing frightening for children. It suits a lazy weekend afternoon, a sick-day comfort watch, or a group movie night where nobody wants to think too hard. It is for viewers who like broad, silly, slapstick-heavy family comedy with sci-fi trimmings, and who don't mind a manic pace.
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