Osmosis Jones A Movie Review	MPAA Rated - PG It's 1:35 Long A Review by The Dude on the Right

"Osmosis Jones" is two stories in one movie, intertwined. First we get the real world movie with Frank (Bill Murray) working in a zoo and as the single dad to Shane (Elena Franklin). But Frank is pretty much gross and disgusting. On the outside his body looks like hell and he eats like crap, much to the dismay of Shane, and this is brought to light as Frank eats a hard boiled egg which has been sucked on by a monkey and dropped on the ground. Now enter the second story of the movie, what is going on inside Frank’s body.

The inside story is animated, showing the innards of the human body working like a little city. You had the different parts of the city interconnected by red and blue highways (get it, veins and arteries), a Mayor (voiced by William Shatner) making decisions in Cerebellum Hall, a police chief leading his force from the lymph nodes, a hot secretary, and a demoted cop, also known as a white blood cell called Osmosis Jones, voiced by Chris Rock. The problem in the City of Frank comes when Frank eats that egg. On it was Thrax (voiced by Laurence Fishburne), a killer virus looking to kill, well, Frank. Thrax starts his plan by just giving Frank normal cold and flu symptoms, but he’s getting henchman from the Body of Frank to help him complete the dastardly deed. With the flu symptoms comes Drix (voiced by David Hyde Pierce), a cold and flu pill taken by Frank who Osmosis is teamed up with.

Well, on the outside you get Frank struggling to be a good father and thinking he just has the flu (and looking like crap), while on the inside Osmosis and Drix think something more is wrong than just the flu so they try to find Thrax and kill him. Alright, this story sounds complicated, and it is a little, but surprisingly it flows smoothly between the animation sequences and the live action, and that’s on the plus side. My problem, like I said before, is that, in actuality, the story tries to be too smart and too clever, reaching for puns and bodily comparisons that, quite honestly, I didn’t want to have to reach that hard for nor think that hard for in a movie that should have just tried to be funny.

For the kiddies the movie is a little gross, but the animation is brightly colored, fun, and the basic story is easy enough for them to have a good time (as was evident from the few 5 to 10 year olds around me who, after the movie was done, said they liked it). But for me, maybe I just should have been in the "intellectual" mood instead of the "not wanting to think much" mood I was in because to get the jokes you really have to pay attention.

For "Osmosis Jones" I’m only giving it 2 stars out of 5. I wanted to like the movie, I wanted to laugh, but I didn’t want to have to think too hard to get there. I had to think to hard and still didn’t get there.

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!