Osmosis Jones (Live Action/ Animated) (Wide Screen) (DVD)

.../> In the case of Osmosis Jones, we're taken inside the body of Frank - played by Bill Murray - to follow the antics of the maverick cop who bares the film's name. Jones - voiced by comedian Chris Rock - is a white blood cell with a record for failing, so when Thrax - voiced by Laurence Fishbourne - arrives, a deadly virus set on beating his record of 72 hours for killing his victims, nobody believes Osmosis Jones when he tries to raise the alarm.
...it is refreshing to see Osmosis Jones isn't produced by the market leaders, Pixar or Dreamworks. Instead, Warner Bros. have produced a film that takes a perfect mix of live action and strong animation and creates a captivating movie for children and adults alike.

Unlike other live action / animation mixes such as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" or "The Looney Tunes Movie", Osmosis Jones keeps the live action and animated ... more

There's a whole world inside us, full of villainous viruses and heroic blood cells and vote-desperate politicians. From Cerebellum Hall, where the body's governing parties reign, to Big Toe's Garage down in the wastelands of an Ingrowing Toe-Nail, these tiny organisms designed to make the human body work are creative and fun-loving, living their lives to the fullest.

Having fought with a chimpanzee in the zoo where he works, Frank is jubilant when he wins back his mayonnaise-covered boiled egg and, despite it having been in the chimp's mouth and despite it having fallen to the muck-covered floor in the struggle, Frank swifly pops it into his mouth; cue the arrival of Thrax.

Meanwhile, election time is coming and the Mayor is keen to avoid anything controversial or that might cause panic. Instead, he instructs Frank to take a holiday, much to the joy of the voting amoebas. To stave off the fever Frank is experiencing, the Mayor gets him to take a cold pill, Drixinoll. Cue the arrival of Drix, the powerful temporary cold relief whose job it will be to cure Frank of his "cold". Desperate to prove himself, Jones manages to get himself partnered with Drix - voiced by David Hyde Pierce - and finds himself on a mission to save Frank from a disease nobody believes exists.

Unlike other live action / animation mixes such as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" or "The Looney Tunes Movie", Osmosis Jones keeps the live action and animated characters completely separate while at the same time intertwining their stories captivatingly well.

The film has its cheeky and political sides too, with billboards pleading for "Peace in the Middle Ear" and a tourism board promoting trips to the backside "come see us down under" it declares.

It's refreshingly different and even spawned an animated TV series named Ozzy and Drix that you can catch regularly on the Cartoon Network.

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