Doctor Reacts To Osmosis Jones

Osmosis Jones is an animated movie from 2001 starring Chris Rock as the titular white blood cell responsible for capturing viruses inside of Bill Murray's body. I remember seeing this as a kid and loving it, but I haven't taken another look at it since I went to medical school, so I was exciting to open it back up and check its accuracy. The jokes in here are so funny, but some of the medical elements are a little weak. Let me know down below if you think I should check out the TV series, Ozzy and Drix!

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[DoctorMike]

What other movies/shows should I react to???

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

I think we can all agree that this movie made our biology studies in school so much more entertaining.

[leo_valdez]

“Why is he fighting with a monkey” says Dr Mike
Also Dr Mike: declares war on a plastic plant that was maybe a little too close to him

[lukaza]

doctor: "well, we tried"
Mike: "you literally didnt even"
doctor: "there was nothing that could be done"
Mike: *anger noises*

[kidney]

This movie was one of the things that made me interested in studying medicine. Thank you Dr.Mike for bringing back all the memories!

[chrisevans]

To be fair, Drix himself says he wasn't meant to combat a virus. So that is at least acknowledged. Then that's where the fantasy comes into play where he and Osmosis do still manage to make a difference through sheer persistence and determination.

[ivankalami]

I'm not a doctor, but I remember watching Dr. Hope reacting to this movie and he gave a good description on Thrax's motives. According to him, Thrax's objective wasn't just to give Frank a fever, but to cause his body to completely lose its regulation. That would cause severe hyperthermia (or hypothermia), leading to all bodily functions failing. Plus, Thrax wasn't planning to stick around after that.

[goldenapplesaga]

Thrax is honestly one of my favorite animated Villains.
There's a theory I've seen that he's a bio engineered virus for military purposes. Because he's extremely deadly and durring the zit meeting he mentions that he's progressively getting better and better.

[wawaicedcoffee]

FINALLY!! I loved Osmosis Jones! I still associate it with “this is science class but we have a substitute teacher so let’s just throw on a movie.” Probably watched this a total of 20 times between elementary, middle, and high school haha.

[davidfalloutbandit]

There's actually a pretty popular fan theory that says that the main villain is not a natural disease or illness but actually a man-made bio weapon which is why he came from a monkey that was possibly used as a test subject in a lab and why unlike normal virus he isn't concerned about replicating or spreading but instead on killing the host

[KingCasual]

Medical accuracy aside, you gotta admit, Laurence Fishburne played one AWESOME villain here!

[ElementalLeaf]

Doctor Mike: "He's flatlining don't bring out the paddles"
The Doctor: *gives up without even trying*
And that's what a wish on a monkey's paw looks like.

[kyleeaton]

My guy, I'm just glad to finally hear a doctor admit that fevers are YOUR BODY DOING ITS JOB!

[rachelesslow]

it may be medically inaccurate, but the pill saying "virus con dios" when he kills the bad guy is a BANGER of a line

[Krystal]

This movie is so scientifically inaccurate, but if it gets kids interested in biology and medicine... more power to it.

[jackkennedy]

8:02 The whole point was that Drix was discouraged because those medications couldn’t fight viruses, but Osmosis Jones helped him overcome that and he actually tried to fight Thrax

[Justmyhandle]

Even as a kid, I figured this movie wasn't trying to be 100% medically accurate but DANG if it wasn't fun to watch and/or discuss in school. It made biology more interesting. I'll always have a place in my heart for this film. I wouldn't call it a masterpiece, but it was memorable & innovative in some ways for its time, especially the fight between Osmosis and Thrax (I re-watched it so many times as a kid ). It was short, but well animated and made me view white blood cells as microscopic bad-asses.

I'd LOVE a AAA action-RPG with a similar premise to Osmosis Jones and Cells at Work someday: Essentially, create/customize your own white blood cell, explore a vast open world map of the human body you help protect, cooperate with fellow cells (among other microbes) and fight varied threats to said body. As you progress + level up, you'd unlock new abilities for your character while upgrading existing traits (all based on real white blood cell functions). The concept alone has great potential!

[tristanneal]

The villain's name, Thrax, seems to indicate that he's meant to be Anthrax. Frustratingly anthrax does not kill via fever, so that just seems totally inaccurate/fabricated for the movie, but him getting it from soil makes sense at least! _Bacillus anthracis_ is a soil bacteria.

[drollfurball]

6:36 I like the idea that his goal was like just destruction and only HE had an escape. The other germs, expendable.

[brent]

I love watching Dr. Mike lose his sh*t over the medical inaccuracies in movies. 😂