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it 's a shame
the execution of this concept falls very short of its premise .
the movie is lacking and most unsatisfying .
osmosis jones is crude , gross , disgusting , and was directed by the farrelly brothers - the twisted siblings behind there 's something about mary , me , myself and irene and a couple of other movies in which the humor is mostly targeted below the belt .
not that there 's anything wrong with scatology .
i bet even cavemen appreciated bathroom humor - such as it was .
it 's merely that with osmosis jones , the farrellys humor is too juvenile , too predictable .
you can almost foresee the puns just by viewing the part of the inner anatomy a sequence is drawn .
osmosis jones looks like one of those old health class movies gone psycho .
the trouble is , the animation may please the very young , but the jokes may be over their heads , while the teen - age audience may find it too tame for their tastes .
adults ?
well , let 's just say most will find it unappetizing
.
osmosis jones plays like a 100-minute infomercial for the eat healthy foods lobby .
the live action sequences revolve around frank ( bill murray ) , who seems to be the grungiest human being in the universe .
he continually looks as if he needs a shave and a shower .
frank , much to the consternation of his daughter , is a fast - food addict , eating anything - and everything - that can kill you .
he works at a zoo where the animals look cleaner - and presumably smell better - than he does .
frank 's body is invaded by thrax , a lethal virus , after frank eats a hard - boiled egg that had fallen to the ground .
it 's not gross enough that frank picks the egg up from the dirt and plops it into his mouth .
nope , the farrellys pile it on by first having frank wrestle a chimp for the egg , wresting it from the primate 's mouth .
like i said , the gross meter tips the scales on this one .
after ingesting the egg , the movie begins its animated sequences .
here , osmosis jones ( voiced by chris rock ) , a renegade white blood cell is teamed with drix ( voiced by frasier 's david hyde pierce ) , a 12-hour , painkiller cold capsule to battle thrax ( smoothly voiced by laurence fishburne ) .
basically , what we have is a cliched cop - buddy movie , rife with all the clich ?
s of that genre .
and this is why osmosis jones does n't click .
it merely falls back on tired , familiar conventions instead of creating new and exciting situations .
the jokes and puns are lame
: osmosis searches out a snitch , a former flu virus .
after pumping him for information , drix tells osmosis , " funny , he does n't look fluish .
"
and the jokes do n't rise above that level .
the live action scenes are no better .
frank is such a slob , so unappealing that it is difficult to fathom how he ever married or even sired a child .
he 's almost a bigger cartoon than the animated characters .
osmosis jones is a movie that may be too violent for young children as thrax burns and dissolves blood cells right and left .
the animation is rather two - dimensional and flat .
it lacks scope and depth .
it is an unappealing movie that will leave you scratching your head , and maybe leaning toward a shower after you walk out of the theater .
N

i 've never written a review for a movie i have n't watched all the way through , but i had to make an exception with powder .
i was about forty - five minutes into this one at a friend 's house when he and his brother got into a huge shouting match that would have ended in violence
had we not left the house .
so i never got to finish the movie
and i 'm sure as hell not going to pay three more bucks to watch half of a bad movie .
but i can at least get a partial review out of it , because i saw enough to know this one was n't worth finishing in the first place .
the movie centers around a freaky teenager who 's spent his entire life living in the cellar of his grandparents ' house .
when grandpa dies ( taking his department store down with him ) , social worker mary steenburgen has to take powder ( first and middle names ?
gold bond ) to a state home , where we find out he 's a different from the other kids .
actually , we find out he 's different when we first see him , because he 's the most pale individual we 've ever seen and moreover he has no body hair whatsoever .
when powder is born in the opening minutes of the movie , the father takes one look at him and says " he 's not my son . " obviously .
all i want to know is where the pillsbury dough boy was nine months ago .
so the white - faced freak leaves his neverland ranch for the state home and faces the ridicule of other kids .
that is , until they try to haze him during his first cafeteria lunch by making him " wear " his spoon ( " you can either wear it on your nose or up your ass .
" decisions , decisions . . . )
and he uses telepathic powers to draw all the silverware in the room into a giant pile in the middle of the table .
so if his father is the pillsbury dough boy , his mother must be sissy spacek 's carrie character .
and you have to factor in two more things from the subsequent scenes , as we find out powder
has some sort of
super - intelligence ( " your i .
q .
test went straight off the chart ! " ) and attracts electrical power .
this first shows up as powder visits the world of high school ( if he 's such a genius already , why would he need a high school education ? ) and sits through a demonstration in jeff goldblum 's science class .
goldblum plugs in a " jacob 's ladder " device that shows current running up two wires and immediately the current flows across the room and into powder 's chest .
but goldblum just stands there for about thirty seconds watching , instead of just unplugging the damn thing .
i guess he was too busy contemplating why he was appearing in his third bad movie in a row
( following hideaway and nine months ) .
that 's about all i saw before the big fight began and , let me tell you , that was twice as interesting as the movie itself .
but like i said , i saw enough to know this would be one of those terrible melodramas about the isolation of people who have superior abilities and how hard it is for those people to assimilate themselves into mainstream civilization .
none of these movies ever handle the subject properly , instead introducing the feeble beauty and the beast copout of having a beautiful woman fall in love with the guy 's personality , overlooking his personal appearance .
i already had the female character picked out ( the girl who was sitting next to him in the back of the room during the electrocution scene ) , but i guess i 'll never know for sure what happened .
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"
oh my god , i sounded just like a mother !
" mrs .
pascal , played with devilish wickedness by genevieve bujold , tells her son .
"
did n't i sound just like a mother ? "
" you are a mother , " her son marty tells her disgustedly .
"
i know , but i still ca n't believe it .
i look at you people and wonder , how did you ever fit in my womb ?
"
marty , you see , is a grown - up twin .
although his sister , who thinks she is jackie - o , is certifiably insane , marty fits right in with the rest of this highly dysfunctional family in the witty black comedy the house of yes . mother and daughter , played in a brilliant performance by parker posey , are both varying degrees of wacko .
most dysfunctional families in the movies are more angry and mean - spirited than diabolically abnormal as this one is .
the daughter 's fantasy of being jackie - o is probably the most sane part of her being .
mrs .
pascal is the sort that will not let
jackie - o keep a hairbrush downstairs since food is kept on that level .
she explains to marty 's new fiancee , lesly ( tori spelling ) , soon after their first meeting that jackie - o was holding marty 's private part when she came out of the womb .
the dialog by wendy macleod , based on the play by mark waters , is so sharp and biting that it seems in danger of cutting through the celluloid at any moment .
the script , reminiscent of a david mamet play , flows smoothly with its fast paced intelligence and mesmerizing set of bizarre characters .
the exaggerated setup has lesly and marty arriving at the family 's out of the way mansion during a thanksgiving day hurricane .
in this storm are two sane individuals .
the fiancee is a giddy , school - girl type , embarrassed by everything , a complete contrast to her rival jackie - o 's bitter pseudo - sophistication .
as the two twins ' younger brother , anthony , freddie prinze jr .
plays the all - america boy type whose only foible is his explicit obsession of bedding his brother 's fiancee that night .
"
we all have our secrets , " jackie - o tells her potential sister - in - law , and boy , does she have a few .
this is a house filled with them .
( when lesly calls it the family 's " home " to mrs .
pascal
-- they 've never had a visitor before lesly -- mrs .
pascal becomes discombobulated until she realizes that lesly is talking about their " house . " ) in a film that gives new meaning to the phrase , " made for each other , " the twin 's biggest , but not their only secret , is that they 've had a long - term incestuous relationship .
they do n't like to discuss it , although they are not particularly ashamed of it .
perfect for viewers who can appreciate perverse comedy , this story never pulls its punches .
jackie - o tries in many ways , few subtle , to show that she is a better match for marty than that ditzy fiancee of his .
in one scene marty and lesly are playing chop sticks together on the piano when jackie - o pushes her aside and starts playing a challenging classical piece for four hands .
marty joins her as his fiancee looks on with envy .
the chemistry between parker posey and josh hamilton is nothing short of amazing .
they put down their little brother and most of the other sane people in the world .
their ripostes are engaging filmmaking at its best .
director mark waters keeps the show 's energy level high and lets the leads sling zingers at each other at a furious pace .
his crisp direction ensures the movie has nary an ounce of fat on it .
jackie - o is temperamentally incapable of being nice .
and being jealous , she cuts lesly down mercilessly .
" were you poor ?
"
jackie - o asks her when she finds that lesly committed the crime of growing up impoverished .
"
did you eat pies ?
chicken pot pies ? "
" pancakes actually , lots of pancakes , " lesly replies with her usual sincerity .
" a donut king , so is she like the queen ? , " jackie - o cattily inquires of marty when she learns that lesly works at a donut king .
" are we entertaining royalty ?
" with rolfe kent 's whimsically sinister music it never seems clear where the story is headed .
will it end in a big emotional explosion , a murder , people slowly cutting each other up with words , a familial catharsis , a weather disaster or what ? the emotionally charged play is clearly going somewhere , and the engaging characters captivate the audience with their spell .
i 'll not say more except that the ending is perfect and a bit of a surprise .
the house of yes runs a blazing fast 1 : 25 .
it is rated r for sexual situations and conversations , mature themes , violent overtones and some profanity .
the movie would be fine for older and mature teenagers , i .
e .
, treat the movie as it were rated nc-17 .

P