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Osmosis Jones (2001)

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01:40-03:20 Sun 6th Sep 2009 100m
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Bobby and Peter Farrelly have finally come up with the best film of their lowbrow careers - an intriguing mix of live-action and inventive animation starring arch slob Bill Murray. He plays Frank, a sloppy zoo worker with bad eating habits who becomes infected with a killer cold virus (voiced by Laurence Fishburne) intent on murdering him within 48 hours. Here's where the audience gets to explore Murray's animated innards, "the city of Frank", and meet maverick police corpuscule Osmosis Jones (Chris Rock) and his cold-cure pal Drix (Frasier's David Hyde Pierce). The biological puns on bodily functions and fluids are amusing, though obviously aimed at the younger end of the audience, and yet there are some imaginative ideas - the stomach as an airport, with the colon as the launch pad; lawyers congregating inside a haemorrhoid; the Mafia relaxing in an armpit. Above all, credit should go to Marc Hyman's script and to animation directors Piet Kroon and Tom Sito, as rarely have body parts been so funny.