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Evolution

DreamWorks Pictures

Columbia Pictures

The Montecito Picture Company

United States of America

English

David Duchovny

Julianne Moore

Orlando Jones

Seann William Scott

Ted Levine

Ty Burrell

Ethan Suplee

Michael Bower

Dan Aykroyd

Gregory Itzin

Pat Kilbane

Sarah Silverman

Michelle Wolff

Katharine Towne

Stephanie Hodge

John Cho

Steven Gilborn

Wayne Duvall

Kyle Gass

Jerry Trainor

Jennifer Savidge

Wendy Braun

Michael Chapman

Mary Pat Gleason

Andrew Bowen

Chris Wylde

Tom Woodruff Jr.

Ashley Clark

Ivan Reitman

David Diamond

David Weissman

Don Jakoby

Jeff Apple

Daniel Goldberg

Joe Medjuck

Tom Pollock

David Rodgers

John Powell

Wendy Greene Bricmont

Sheldon Kahn

Christopher Allen Nelson

Janet Brady

Mic Rodgers

Erik Rondell

Joanna Shelmidine

Margery Simkin

Richard F. Mays

Lauri Gaffin

Aggie Guerard Rodgers

Edward St. George

Colette Slattery

Elaine L. Offers

Laini Thompson

Ken Wensevic

John-Paul Riva

Walt Hadfield

Ben Woolverton

Matthew Bekoff

Noelle King

Masako Masuda

Eric Sundahl

Jeffrey Wilhoit

Christopher Assells

Dino DiMuro

Scott Martin Gershin

Dan Hegeman

Randy Kelley

Tony Lamberti

Scott Sanders

Bob Beemer

Scott Millan

Dennis Sands

Karen Baker Landers

Per Hallberg

Burt Dalton

Eric Armstrong

Eric Bruneau

Eric Leven

Eric Reynolds

Mark Wendell

Peter G. Travers

Yuri Bartoli

Don Howe

Mike Chambers

Crys Forsyth-Smith

Ken Kokka

Kevin Rose-Williams

Jennifer Leo Russ

Nancy St. John

Jim Berney

Des Carey

Phil Tippett

Thomas Robinson Harper

Daniel C. Gold

Ron Goodman

David Luckenbach

Murray Close

Ian Fox

Winnie D. Brown

Lorenzo Hearns Jr.

Chanthou Kozberg

Dana E. Glauberman

Saul Saladow

Bunny Andrews

Dave Robling

Barbara Tuss

Peter J. Silbermann

Kokayi Ampah

Joe Bucaro III

Keith Campbell

Tom Elliott

Tim Rigby

Cinda-Lin James

Tommy J. Huff

Ken Schwenker

Ronell Venter

Paul Deason

J. Michael Riva

Dennis Butterworth

Steve Knisely

Leslie Ross

Marc Baird

Thomas Meikle

Helen Kozora

Lubricant and the giant product placement.

A meteorite falls to Earth and lands right in the desert at Glen Canyon, Arizona. Two college professors, Dr. Ira Kane and Prof. Harry Phineas Block, take it upon themselves to investigate and mooch around. At the site, they discover worm like insects that are not of this world. Thinking they are on to Nobel Prize type history, they are dismayed when the government takes over the site and shunts them out the way. But as the insects start to evolve in the Earth atmosphere, they take on various shapes and forms of alien creatures. Pretty soon the whole place is over run and the government is at a loss in how to stop them. Enter Ira, Harry, Wayne and Allison to hopefully save the day.

Directed by Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters 1 & 2), Evolution is a zany sci-fi comedy that achieves firmly what it sets out to do. Using the available special effects for great rewards, and lashing it in Technicolor, all that remained was to have a cast happy to be in on the joke itself. Up step David Duchovny (revelling in none serious X Files malarkey), Orlando Jones (getting all the best lines), Julianne Moore (accident prone) and Sean Wiillian Scott (goofball fireman wannabe). Backed up by Ted Levine, Dan Ackroyd, Ethan Suplee and Ty Burrell, pic is well served right across the cast list. Of course they aren't asked to do anything special, but it's not that kind of film. There's enough here for all the family to enjoy, kids will be awed by the array of alien creatures, whilst the adults should be chuckling away at some of the jokes.

If you are expecting real science then you have come to the wrong place, Evolution parodies the sci-fi parodies, and then some. 7/10

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"Ira" (David Duchovny) and "Harry" (Orlando Jones) are local college professors who go to investigate a meteor landing near their American town. When they get there, though, they discover it's riddled with strange looking creepy-crawlies that don't look at all indigenous. It's not long before the army shows up and these two are kicked off the project by an wholly incompetent "Gen. Woodman" (Ted Levine) and proper scientist "Allison" (Julianne Moore) - an ex of "Ira" who relishes sticking the knife in. As these beasties start to grow in number and size and become more menacing, the state governor "Lewis" (Dan Aykroyd) demands that the army takes action - but what can they do? Napalm? Meantime, our two intrepid scientists and their buddy "Wayne" (Seann William Scott) are working on a more "direct" approach to thwarting the expansion of our menacing alien visitors. At times it's quite a good laugh and some effort has gone into creating some squelchy and sticky monsters. There are even some hungry blue apes and SWS does a good job trying to tunelessly serenade one in the mall, but the rest of this is not especially original and the whole thing really relies too heavily on "Jones" to bring us some predictably comedy whilst Duchovny and Moore fall rather flat amidst a sea of not so subtle advertising. It's watchable and quite good fun, though, just not a film you'll remember.

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