Osmosis Jones is such a strange little movie.
It's two parts bad to one part good.
The good part being the animation. It's clean, well-put-together, colourful, visually captivating.
Even the art style is decent.
I don't love the way all the little creatures look with there strange Americanized '''Urban''' stylistic look. But it is still well put together.
It's just a shame that the script is not very well done.
It's extremely generic, it almost feels lazy at points.
And the live-action segments are horrible.
Bill Murray sitting around giving us a no good performance, being a disgusting repulsive of a man. Alongside this dis-interesting story of father daughter turmoils that don't even feel good enough to make it into the Mike Myers Cat in the Hat movie.
It just drags the film down.
If the whole thing was animated it might be worth giving a look.
At least and you could be kept entertained by the dazzling array of colours and stunning visual design. But you just get pulled out of this movie every time Bill Murray stupid face pops up it becomes more prolific as the movie goes on.
It's a real shame. There's a good idea here even if you kept the Hollywood style script and the strange cityscape environment inside the human body.
But it just falls short.
And poor David Pierce.
I can't think of any other movie where this guy gets to play a major role.
And he gets a chance to be the Silver Star in this movie and it just doesn't turn out well.
I'm sure the guy got a paycheque like no one's business, but still.
This might be the most famous thing he's ever been in outside of Fraser.
Also the cartoon that came out to capitalize on the film completely squanders the whole premise of the movie.
The daughter is gone, Bill Murray's character is still a useless sack of crap who probably going to die in 20 minutes of a culinary. The two main characters are forced out of the only life they known.
Their entire world alongside everyone they've ever known loved or hated is completely Swept Away into confusion and bewilderment.
The cartoon doesn't even play with that.
It just wanted an excuse to get a bunch of diseases inside a kid's body so the two main idiots could fight them episode after episode.
Because the people who made that dumb cartoon fell into the same trap as every other cartoon Creator thinking that kids want to see kids so they can identify with the protagonist.
And as it's been said a thousand times before; ''Kids don't want to watch kids most of the time''.
They want to identify with the cool radical dude or slick and sophisticated lady who kicks ass and goes on adventures.
But I feel like I'm getting off topic
Really I'm just left the question.
Who is this movie for?
It tries to go in 20 different directions and none of it works.
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