Evolution

Movie Title: Evolution
Rating: 7
Reviewed By: Robin McFetridge

Review:

Well you say you want an evolution oh yeah we all want to save the world, or was that revolution? Well from the director of Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman brings us Evolution. Something we could all probably do without, just like that Beattle’s song I was trying unsuccessfully to sing just now. And yipeee I finally see someone’s ass that isn’t absolutely foul. Evolution stars David Duchovny and his perky cute behind as Dr. Ira Kane. He is a biology teacher at a community college in a small Arizona town. We later learn he was an officer in the military and created a heinous virus that was nicknamed after him. Well he retreated from that career to a lowly teacher at a community college. His friend Dr. Harry Block (Orlando Jones) teaches geology there, but he really is the volleyball coach and his smart stuff only looks good on the resume. After a meteor hits, these alien creatures begin to develop and evolve at a rapid rate, like billions of years in a day or two. These two unlikely teachers stumble into something Nobel prize like, but like anything else the military intervenes and screws everything up like any good comedy movie plot should have.

The film begins with Wayne Green, a pool man (Seann William Scott), practicing for his firefighters' exam, in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere. Why? Well if you knew the character you wouldn’t ask why. Then this meteor hits and sends him and his car flying. The next day Jones and Duchovny are on their way to inspect this meteor for some internet official business thang. Whatever looks good on the resume. They take some samples and go on their merry way. The real scientist in the group, Duchovny, sees something amazing in the microscope and when Jones takes a peek at it, it has already evolved. Back to the site for more samples. Soon the military takes over and seals off the site and cuts these teachers off. General Woodman (Ted Levine) and Duchovny go way back. The courts rule in the military’s favor and the lab is robbed of all the teacher’s hard work. Lets move on to the pool man now. At the country club where he works, an alien crawls out of the water on the greens and eats this jerk Cartwright (Gregory Itzin). After Scott chases the thing down it dies (aliens can’t breathe our air. . . duh) He brings this creature to the community college lab for Duchovny and Jones to examine. Then aliens start showing up all over the place but die. Now remember that they are evolving at an exponential rate, so how hard can it be to evolve into something that can breathe oxygen? Now it is time for some mayhem or a revolution. Or damnit, just someone to save the world, starting with Arizona (why anyone would want to save Arizona is beyond me). Oh yeah Julianne Moore also stars in the flick. She is the klutzy tight ass agent from the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Allison Reed. She eventually softens up because she is horny for Duchovny. Well he flashed her his ass when they first met so they had to fall in love, duh it’s a movie.

Evolution is funny and campy at the same time. Comedic timing is working for Jones and Duchovny. If you don’t expect some serious alien shtick like the X-Files then you will not be disappointed. Yeah, I am happy I saw his butt. Yes little things do make me happy. I give Evolution a seven on the About-Movies.com rating scale.

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