DVD Movie Rating for: Evolution

4 out of 5

Movie Plot of: Evolution

Glen Canyon, Arizona, the present day. Wayne, practising at night in the desert for his upcoming fireman's exam, witnesses the impact of a meteorite. The next day, biology teacher Dr. Ira Kane and geology teacher Harry Block from Glen Canyon Community College manage to get to the meteorite, which is stuck in the ground at the bottom of a cave. By taking a sample, they discover a slimy blue fluid coming out of the meteorite. A little later, Ira Kane finds out that myriads of single-celled life-forms dwell in the fluid, evolve at an incredible rate, even while he's watching. What first seems like a sure ticket to Sweden for the Nobel Prize soon develops into a nightmare: By evolving and adapting at that unbelievably fast rate, the Aliens start spreading out, and the Military comes in. Now it all comes down to what Darwin so rightfully stated: Survival of the fittest. And no good idea in sight...

DVD Production Details of: Evolution

Cast of the movie: Evolution

• David Duchovny .... Dr. Ira Kane
• Julianne Moore .... Dr. Allison Reed, CDC
• Orlando Jones .... Prof. Harry Phineas Block
• Seann William Scott .... Wayne Grey
• Ted Levine .... Brigadier Gen. Russell Woodman
• Ethan Suplee .... Deke
• Michael Bower .... Danny (as Michael Ray Bower)
• Pat Kilbane .... Officer Sam Johnson
• Ty Burrell .... Col. Flemming
• Dan Aykroyd .... Governor Lewis
• Katharine Towne .... Nadine
• Gregory Itzin .... Cartwright
• Ashley Clark .... Lt. Cryer
• Michelle Wolff .... Carla
• Sarah Silverman .... Denis

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Reviews of the movie: Evolution

Based on the evidence in Evolution, one thing is perfectly clear: special effects have evolved, but director Ivan Reitman has reverted to primitive pandering. Equally obvious is the fact that Evolution is a de facto rip-off of Reitman's 1984 classic Ghostbusters, but this time there's no Bill Murray to deliver the best punch lines (we have to settle for fellow ghostbuster Dan Aykroyd in a broad supporting role), and the comedy has devolved into a grossfest including deep-rectal extraction of alien insects, fire-hose enemas into a giant alien sphincter, and a full-moon display of David Duchovny's naked posterior. Whereas Ghostbusters was a shrewd, irreverent mainstream comedy that combined gooey spectral ectoplasm with something resembling genuine wit, Evolution is a crude, juvenile romp in which all things slimy are elevated to comedic supremacy.

Granted, that's not always a bad thing. As latter-day ghostbuster equivalents, Duchovny, Orlando Jones, and Seann William Scott make a fine comedic trio, and Julianne Moore is equally amusing as a clumsy scientist and Duchovny's obligatory love interest. Despite the meddling of clueless military buffoons, they join forces to eradicate a wild variety of rapidly evolving alien creatures that arrived on Earth via meteor impact, and the extraterrestrial beasties (courtesy of effects wizard Phil Tippet and crew) are outrageously designed and marvelously convincing. For anyone who prefers lowbrow humor, Evolution will prove as entertaining as Ghostbusters (or at least Galaxy Quest), while others may lament Reitman's shameless embrace of crudeness. One thing's for certain: after seeing this movie, you'll gain a whole new appreciation for Head & Shoulders shampoo

Ivan Reitman's Evolution follows his most famous film, Ghostbusters in the type of formula, but it is not that movie (especially since it's one of the funniest films ever). But Evolution still is a worthy summer comedy, filled with funny in joke puns and jabs at aliens and a very, very likeable cast. The best gag though in the movie, and I think it's one of the few comic gem scenes in the past year and a half, is a scene where Orlando Jones (who hold most of the films funniest one liners) has a weird Mosquito alien crawling inside of him, where some of the funniest dialogue in a Reitman movie including the following "There's no time for lubricant" "There's ALWAYS time for lubricant" and "What type of ice cream do you want" "It don't matter, it's for my ass." Even Dan Aykroyd has fun in a role that almost seems like a take off of the mayor character from his prodigy Ghostbusters. Kudos to pretty much everyone; Tippet gets big props (as always) for his ingenious alien creations