Before Inside Out, there was Osmosis Jones

Before Disney and Pixar animation made Inside Out in 2015.

There was Osmosis Jones, a 2001 live-action/animation film that is similar to the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit except this film focuses on the inside body of the man, two buddy cops: a white blood cell and cold cure pill, and a dangerous infection attacking the body.

Now I'm not going to lie this film was my childhood but irks me that the film wasn't as successful as Inside Out. Let me break down the story and difference between Osmosis Jones and Inside Out.

The film focuses on Frank (played by Bill Murray), a widowed zookeeper living an unhealthy lifestyle, and his 10-year-old daughter Shane (played by Elena Franklin) who loves her father and grows concerned about her father's unhealthy lifestyle. While he working at the zoo, Frank was about to eat his boiled egg when a chimp takes the egg. They both fight over the egg until the egg drops to the ground, picks it up from the ground, and proceeds to eat it. Gross!!!

While he was eating the filthy egg, we look inside his mouth so everything inside his body was animated. We met Osmosis Jones (voiced by Chris Rock), a white blood cell cop fighting against germs. I mean obviously, that's what white blood cells are for in our bodies.

Inside Frank's body, or better yet Downtown Frank filled with citizens who are red blood cells and white blood cells alike. Mayor Phlegmming (voiced by William Shatner) controls his mind of Frank making his lifestyle unhealthy concerning losing his mayoral race and his secretary Leah (voiced by Brandy) helps the Mayor and warns him about Frank's health. Unlike Frank, Mayor doesn't care and made Frank take cold meds.

Until a nasty deadly infection, Thrax (voiced by Laurence Fishburne) enters Frank's body causing some destruction inside Frank's body. In Frank's stomach, Jones and Leah meet with Drix (voiced by David Hyde Pierce) a cold pill disinfecting the body of Frank. Jones and Drix ended up working together to find out what was going on with Frank's body.

The funniest part Ozzy and Drix enter this body part club called the Pimple where they find Thrax setting an evil plan to destroy Frank. When things go bad, the pimple pops off his head and lands on his daughter's teacher's face (played by Molly Shannon). When his daughter tried to convince him to be healthy, she was at the point of giving up. Frank started dying and gains consciousness back leaving Ozzy and Drix to save Frank. Ozzy and Thrax start exiting Frank's body fighting until they land on Shane's fake eyelashes to get his DNA. The eyelash falls, Thrax tries to lunge and pierce at him until it hits Shane's fake eyelash luckily Ozzy escapes. The eyelash falls into the alcohol (not the drink) Thrax causing him to expire.

In the end, Ozzy and Drix become Frank's agent partners and Frank and his daughter ended up hiking together while he lives a healthy lifestyle. The film was a commercial flop and received mixed reviews. Critics praised the cast, the story of the film, animation of the setting. The film was left under the radar for years until Disney and Pixar made an animation except this film chronicles a young girl's emotions in her mind and memory. So nothing to do with the 2001 film.

The film would later be into an animation children's program show with a new title called Ozzy and Drix. The show premiered on Kids WB on the WB network (before it was transitioning into the CW network.) while it reaired some episodes on Cartoon Network.

Heads Up!!!! Disney and Pixar are working on another animation film called Elemental. Let’s hope that Disney’s not making another copycat of Osmosis Jones.

Director(s): Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Piet Kroon, Tom Sito

Writer: Marc Hyman

Producers: Dennis Edwards, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly. Zak Penn, Bradley Thomas

Cast: Chris Rock, David Hyde Pierce, Laurence Fishburne, Brandy Norwood, William Shatner, Bill Murray, Elena Franklin, Molly Shannon, Chris Elliott

Cinematography: Mark Irwin

Editors: Lois Freeman-Fox, Stephen Schaffer, Sam Seig

Music: Randy Edelman

Production Companies: Warner Bros. Feature Animation, Conundrum Entertainment

Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures

Language: English

Time: 95 minutes

Source from Wikipedia