Osmosis Jones
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: August 10, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
9
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago TribuneRobert K. Elder
Gets under your skin with laughs that are fast, slick and slippery and with visuals as vivid as anything this side of Demerol. Read full review
83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Surprise of surprises, it's a blast. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Oscillates between streaky black comedy and sanitary instruction. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesJan Stuart
Warts and all, Osmosis Jones is the year's ultimate bodily functions comedy. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
A genuinely eccentric comedy that explodes with funny ideas and expresses most of them in wildly original animation.
80
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Resuscitates the filmgoing summer with a vital jolt of pure piss and vinegar. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeJay Carr
In a dismal summer for movies, Osmosis Jones is a fresh breath of foul air. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Likely to entertain kids, who seem to like jokes about anatomical plumbing. For adults, there is the exuberance of the animation and the energy of the whole movie, which is just plain clever. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Should you take the kids? Boys 8 to 11 are the target audience for this gross-out film. A better question might be, should they take the parents? Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Often very smart about being silly. Read full review
70
VarietyRobert Koehler
The most extensive interplay of live action and animation since "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" Read full review
70
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Often wickedly funny, but about halfway through, the premise becomes -- shall we say? -- intestinally overextended. Read full review
63
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
David Hyde Pierce is hilarious as Drix, a take-charge dose of medicine. No performer is better at wringing laughs from an unflappable --- make that semi-flappable - delivery. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The animation sequences -- the movie's best moments -- hurtle by at breakneck speed, while the live-action portions are a bit sluggish. Read full review
63
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
When we're outside Frank's body, Osmosis Jones drags. When we're inside him, it zooms. Read full review
60
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
The flat, gross-out live-action bits, directed by (surprise!) Peter and Bobby Farrelly, don't jive with the zippy, Tex Avery-style animated segments, directed by former storyboard artists Piet Kroon and Tom Sito.
60
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Too crude for the kids and not crude enough for connoisseurs of the "Something About Mary" school of hair jism and balls caught in zippers, Osmosis Jones seems doomed to fall between the cracks. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
While there's no denying that the film's animation is technically impressive and is sometimes quite clever, its inventiveness is frequently at the service of gags so distasteful that gag is the operative word. Read full review
50
New Times (L.A.)Robert Wilonsky
That Osmosis Jones plays like a sloppy hodgepodge is no surprise: The live-action scenes were done by the Farrellys, the animation by Sito and Kroon (whose names sounds like bodily functions), and the script was penned by another first-timer, Marc Hyman. Nobody seems to be on the same page. Read full review
50
SalonBill Wyman
Remains stubbornly one-dimensional. The gags are so resoundingly and innocently pre-adolescent that it's really hard to see how the film managed a PG rating. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldChris Hewitt
Classy voice work (intriguingly, the hero, heroine and villain are all voiced by black actors -- Chris Rock, Brandy and Laurence Fishburne) Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWesley Morris
Osmosis is really an occasion for the brothers to take their culture- debasing scatology to a PG crowd. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Young viewers may guffaw, but seasoned fans of "There's Something About Mary" will be disappointed. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
The ideas are there, hints of genius, but no one ignites them. Add Osmosis Jones to that list of universal enigmas, and, more specifically, how the Farrelly Brothers could have done so little with so much. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
More than a bad movie, it's an anti-movie. Read full review
38
New York PostJonathan Foreman
It's no funnier than your average grade-school biology lesson and less pedagogically useful than your typical Farrelly brothers comedy. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Cathartically disgusting adventure movie. Read full review
10
Washington PostRita Kempley
Should never have been released, not even on video. It should have been placed in a hazardous waste container, encased in concrete and dumped into the Farrelly brothers' septic tank. Read full review
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