Evolution

2001

PG-13

1h 41m

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6.1/10

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A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the only people standing between the aliens and world domination... which could be bad news for the Earth.

Directors

Ivan Reitman

Writers

Don Jakoby(screenplay by)

David Weissman(screenplay by)

David Diamond(screenplay by)

Stars

David Duchovny

Julianne Moore

Orlando Jones

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David Duchovny

Dr. Ira Kane

Julianne Moore

Dr. Allison Reed, CDC

Orlando Jones

Prof. Harry Phineas Block

Seann William Scott

Wayne Grey

Ted Levine

General Russell Woodman

Colonel Flemming

Deke

Danny

Governor Lewis

Cartwright

Officer Johnson

Denise

Carla

Nadine

Jill Mason

Student

Judge Guilder

Dr. Paulson

Directors

Ivan Reitman

Writers

Don Jakoby(screenplay by)

David Weissman(screenplay by)

David Diamond(screenplay by)

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6/10

"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.

Geronimo196706 Jun, 2024