This film's an odd beast: the story for the animated sequences for the most part works really well, but the live-action sequences that unfortunately push the story forward undermine the animation's reluctant superiority to the film's A-plot. Bill Murray is not the quirky charmer you see in Ghostbusters or Groundhog Day, but instead a really dense zookeeper whose sense of hygiene would make even lax germaphobes shriek in terror. And Bill Murray's immunity system is voiced by Chris Rock: a white-blood-cell cop that's all about the one-liners and proving he's not just a laughing stock joke.
This film's... an interesting story in box office flops from the 2000s: this film went through development hell because there wasn't a story realised through the live-action sequences when they started production: Bill Murray was kind of attached as an afterthought. This film really shines with the animated sequences and sinks with the Farley Brothers-directed live sequences with Murray. The two styles just don't mesh together at all. There's a good half of a film here undermines by another that doesn't feel like a natural companion for a cop-centric story.
It's watchable and competently made, but the whole live-action/animation mixing is a far-cry from seamless and can be distracting in an involuntary way. It's an extravagant experience of 'aesthetic turbulence' from Hollywood.
This film's... an interesting story in box office flops from the 2000s: this film went through development hell because there wasn't a story realised through the live-action sequences when they started production: Bill Murray was kind of attached as an afterthought. This film really shines with the animated sequences and sinks with the Farley Brothers-directed live sequences with Murray. The two styles just don't mesh together at all. There's a good half of a film here undermines by another that doesn't feel like a natural companion for a cop-centric story.
It's watchable and competently made, but the whole live-action/animation mixing is a far-cry from seamless and can be distracting in an involuntary way. It's an extravagant experience of 'aesthetic turbulence' from Hollywood.