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Part animated, part live-action adventure about a maverick
white blood cell (voiced by Chris Rock) that's on a mission to track down and fend off a
deadly blood virus threatening its human host (Bill Murray). The blood cell's partner is a
no-nonsense cold tablet (David Hyde Pierce). Also with Molly Shannon, Elena Franklin,
Chris Elliott, Laurence Fishburne, Brandy Norwood and William Shatner. Directed by Bobby & Peter Farrelly. [1:38]
SEX/NUDITY 2 - Two animated characters kiss romantically a few times. We see
a billboard with a huge picture of buttocks. We see a photo of an animated character's
very large wife in a tiny bikini. An animated character is seen looking at a "DNA
Monthly" magazine as if it is a Playboy-like magazine with a centerfold, and he makes
suggestive remarks. A male animated character flirts with a female animated character and
makes suggestive remarks. We see a man in his underwear (he has forgotten his pants). We
see a night club with animated characters dancing and gyrating; one character has three
breasts. We see a man's large tummy hang out of his shirt.
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - There is a lot of bodily humor and slimy gross-out stuff
throughout the film, both inside a man's body (the characters are animated) and outside
(it is live-action): A man opens his mouth that is full of half-chewed food, some mucus
runs out of a man's nose and he sucks it back in with a big sniff, a man vomits all over
the front of a woman's dress, and we see the vomit scene in photos also. A man talks about
his ingrown toenail and puts his bloody swollen foot on the table at a restaurant, and a
man has a huge pimple on his forehead that throbs and bursts and the pus lands on a
woman's lip. A man stands over a sink apparently after having vomited, and a man eats a
hard boiled egg which had fallen on the floor, right out of a monkey's cage -- we follow
the egg through the man's mouth; a huge, bubbling mass of slime covers the egg and
explodes splattering animated characters with drippy goo. "Nose-juice" cannons
are fired at dust particles, and a membrane cracks and releases a flood of mucus causing
two animated characters to float down mucus rapids. There are references to the odor of
the bowels, and we see a "pus cookies" stand. A monkey and a man both scratch
their buttocks. We hear sounds of flatulence and hear a man urinating -- while we're also
watching his bladder emptying. We see a man in an emergency room and he dies after his
temperature climbs to 108°, and a man passes out behind the wheel of a car and we see him
being taken away by an ambulance. We see a scary looking virus: he is big and red and has
glowing yellow eyes and really long spiky finger nails that he uses to infect parts of the
body; everything he touches catches on fire. He is referred to as the "Red
Death" and "Thrax." There's a helicopter chase between animated characters
that are white blood cells (they are the police) and germs (the criminals) through a man's
body; there's another chase between police and a germ that causes the police to be sprayed
with green goo and their cars to overturn. We see an animated character disintegrate; his
face crumbles and his eye pops out. A couple of animated characters are slashed by a germ
and we see their pieces floating in some goo; the germ slashes another animated character
who splatters, and two other animated characters are killed. Animated characters panic and
run around in a frenzy. Two animated characters yell at each other and grab each other
around the throat. Two animated characters have a fistfight and the one chokes the other.
Two animated characters dangle from a man's eyelash and then struggle with each other; one
falls into a beaker of alcohol and melts. An animated character falls to the ground and is
trapped under something that looks like muscle fibers. An animated character jumps from a
helicopter and crashes onto a car which then crashes into a billboard. An animated
character that's a germ causes sirens to ring and a man's temperature starts climbing. The
germ slashes cars and burns up a road. An animated character is sucked into a germ
extermination container, an animated character jumps on another character's head and
screams in fear. A germ is shot and its hand freezes. Two animated characters fight and
wrestle, and an animated character is held by a couple of animated characters and
threatened. An animated character throws a grenade which explodes and covers everything
with cold remedy medication. We see a couple of animated characters cleaning up in a man's
stomach (presumably) and they are surrounded by slimy, drippy goo. There are a few scenes
with characters yelling at and insulting each other. The opening credits scene has
amoebae-like creatures swimming around. A man falls down complaining
of a painful cramp in his leg. A man wrestles with and head-butts a monkey.
Some reckless driving.
PROFANITY 2 - There are several euphemistic mispronunciations or rephrasings
of common obscene or profane exclamations (e.g. "holy spit"). There are also a
few anatomical terms, a few sexual references, and some insults and religious
exclamations. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - The death of a parent, self-destructive behavior, buying
votes, the conscience, the subconscious, grief, fitting in.
MESSAGE - Take care of your body.
(Note: There is an emotionally painful scene where we see a young girl sobbing
uncontrollably over her father as he dies.)
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