David Duchovny
Dr. Ira Kane
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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.
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| Release Date | 2001-06-08 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 1h 41m |
| Directors | Ivan Reitman, Michael Chapman, Yuri Bartoli, David F. Klassen, Michael Neumann, Dieter Busch, Kenneth Roth, Sonia Bhalla |
| Producers | Jeff Apple, Daniel Goldberg, Joe Medjuck, Tom Pollock, Ivan Reitman, David Rodgers, Mike Chambers, Crys Forsyth-Smith, Ken Kokka, Nancy St. John, Sheldon Kahn, Ken Schwenker, Ronell Venter, Paul Deason, John Clinton |
| Writers | David Diamond, David Weissman, Don Jakoby, David J. Negron Sr. |
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
— John Chard