10 Films With Awesome Animated TV Shows You Forgot Existed
3. Ozzy & Drix
Say what you will about the 2001 live-action/animated feature film, but you can't deny the premise behind Osmosis Jones is genius.
Taking place inside the human body, the show, now completely devoid of the film's live-action elements, focuses on the buddy-cop dynamic of a white blood cell (Ozzy) and his cold-pill counterpart (Drix), as they fight all kinds of germs and bacterium sans Bill Murray's character from the first film. Instead, the anthropomorphic action takes place within the body of teenager Hector Cruz, a character far less obnoxious than Murray's straight-up personification of the gross-out genre from the film. In fact, the show made an effort of toning down some of the most controversial aspects from the 2001 bomb, though tonally it still retained much of its spirit.
Ozzy and Drix deserves praise solely for its ability to make good on the premise of a promising yet problematic animated feature. It might not have been able to resurrect Warner Bros.' dreams of microbiological success, but it did, however, illustrate that they could be redeemed. The theme song was catchy, the story enjoyable, and the characters engaging. As a rebuttal to the film's sharper critics, it demonstrated that there was still life left in the property. Well, about two years or so, seeing as how it was cancelled after two seasons.