It is deeply boring, blindly paced, and humiliating for me, who had nothing to do with it.
Evolution (2001)
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Reviews Counted:130
Fresh:54
Rotten:76
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Director Reitman tries to remake Ghostbusters, but his efforts are largely unsuccessful because the movie has too many comedic misfires.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Director Ivan Reitman (GHOSTBUSTERS, STRIPES, DAVE) turns from ghosts to aliens in this comedy starring David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, and Julianne Moore. When a meteor crashes into the Arizona... Director Ivan Reitman (GHOSTBUSTERS, STRIPES, DAVE) turns from ghosts to aliens in this comedy starring David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, and Julianne Moore. When a meteor crashes into the Arizona desert, local community college professors Ira Kane (Duchovny) and Harry Block (Jones) are shocked to discover that it has introduced rapidly evolving aliens to Earth. Although the professors try to keep their discovery a secret, the U.S. military takes over the investigation, sealing off the fantastic creatures and the environment that the aliens have established. But when aliens start popping up on nearby golf courses and in the local mall, it's up to Kane and Block to save the world. With a little help from Allison Reed (Julianne Moore), a clumsy scientist with the Center for Disease Control, and Wayne Green (Seann William Scott), a dim-witted country club pool manager and fireman-wannabe, the two professors devise a plan using an unlikely weapon to kill the alien population before it wipes out the human race. Fittingly, former Ghostbuster Dan Aykroyd appears as the governor of Arizona. [More]
Starring: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Seann William Scott, Orlando Jones
Starring: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Seann William Scott, Orlando Jones, Dan Aykroyd, Richard Moll, Sarah Silverman, Ted Levine, Ty Burrell
Director: Ivan Reitman
Director: Ivan Reitman
Screenwriter: David Weissman, David Diamond
Producer: Daniel Goldberg, Joe Medjuck, Don Jakoby, Jeff Apple, David Rodgers
Composer: John Powell
Studio: DreamWorks Distribution LLC
Reviews for Evolution
Two decades ago, this would have been a great movie. Now, it's just another round of leftovers.
It won't make as much money as the Will Smith blockbuster, but it's a much better movie: less arrogant, less enamored with its special effects, and infinitely more clever.
This alien comedy is able to compensate for lack of originality through easy-going charm.
Anyone with a fondness for those cheesy '50s sci-fi thrillers about mutant invaders from outer space should be amused by Evolution.
Look! Up on the screen! It's a bird! It's a-plain! It's super-lamebrain, man!
The special effects are good, but the rest of the movie has an amateurish look to it, sort of like a very expensive home movie.
Saddled with a listless, haphazard script ... that's little more than a concept and doesn't bother to hang together.
This is a movie that never should have crawled out of its primordial slime.
Neither the sci-fi nor the comedy are strong enough to sustain the movie.
Latest News for Evolution
April 27, 2007:
Sarah Silverman to Host MTV Movie Awards
She might not be all that big of a movie star, but I bet most of you will still be pretty psyched to learn that comic Sarah Silverman will be hosting this year's MTV Movie... More...
May 26, 2006:
Trailer Bulletin: My Super-Ex Girlfriend
Offer me a cast that includes Luke Wilson, Uma Thurman, Anna Faris, Wanda Sykes, Eddie Izzard, and Rainn Wilson ... and that's a comedy I want to see. Then throw legendary... More...
August 30, 2005:
"Super Ex" Signs Two More Funny Folks
We've already reported that Ivan Reitman's "Super Ex" will star Uma Thurman as a superheroine and Luke Wilson as her ex-boyfriend, but The Hollywood Reporter brings... More...
June 16, 2005:
Luke Wilson to Headline High Concept "Super Ex"
The Hollywood Reporter informs us that likable lug Luke Wilson ("The Wendell Baker Story") is in final negotiations to star in Ivan Reitman's "Super Ex."... More...
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