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What I liked best about "Osmosis Jones" was not the framing live-action sequences that were directed by the Farelly brothers. (I suspect that's ALL the involvement they had with the film.) Although it was unrealistic, I liked that the human body was depicted as a giant city suffering from neglect and urban blight. Here are some things I enjoyed:
William Shatner's clueless and corrupt Mayor Phlegming. When he says late in the film "I don't think you understand the problems we're dealing with!", it took a herculean effort of willpower for me not to shout the obvious rejoiner from "Jaws": "I think I understand that you are going to ignore this PARTICULAR little problem, until it swims up and bites you in the ass!"
In real life, vaccines are weakened viruses that help the body's immune system adapt itself to new bugs like the measels or the flu. In this version, a vaccine is an undercover stool pigeon that's in the Virus Protection Program.
Every city has bad neighborhoods. In the cartoon version, the armpit, a pimple, and the liver are depicted as blighted areas were bad germs hang out.
The cells get their information from the Neural News Network, and go online via the ISP Frank On-Line. (Nice way for the movie to plug the parent company's sister affiliates...) When Frank is on the verge of death, the newscaster is giving cells the bad news with his clueless bimbo co-anchor is still trying to spin the lighter side of things.
Three tuxedoed cell musicians play "Nearer My God To Thee" as Frank is about to croak. I couldn't help but laugh....
At the end, after Drix decides to stay in the body despite his jurisdiction running out, Osmosis promises to go to the hemorrhoids to get him a good lawyer. (Where else would a cell get one? :-) )
I also liked the rival brain cell that was running against Phlegming for mayor. Stroke of genius to get Ron Howard to do the voice work for Tom Colonic.
What did you guys think of it?
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