Evolution (Wide Screen)

Advantages: some laugh out loud moments
Disadvantages: something is missing ..

...undergo 5 million years of evolution in a single month. College teachers Ira Kane (Ducovny) and Harry Block (Jones) are inadvertently called to a site of a meteorite crash where they discover single celled alien life forms they think its the happiest time of their lives and going to make them rich and famous. But when the alien cells begin to evolve at a alarming rate things start to get out of hand as they turn into monstrous creatures that can ...
...movie sequel Hannibal. In Evolution , She plays Government scientist Allison in this film and starts off going head to head with Ira Kane and Harry Block but ends up teaming up with them to help banish the aliens off the planet. Also stars in this film is Dan Akroyd who has appeared in many of Reitmans films including Ghostbusters 1 and 2. His acting in this film is slightly over the top and isn't much to write home about. Its certainly not one ... Read review

Advantages: good special effects, good performance from Orlando Jones
Disadvantages: Julianne Moore - why was she there? Poor script, few laughs

...sure how. Evolution follows the story of a crashed meteor which is carrying alien life. Kane and Block happen to discover it, but being only mere college professors (well, so we're told) it isn't long before the government step in and take over the entire area. Kane, an ex pentagon scientist, along with Block are determined to get credit for the discovery. They, after all, were the ones to realise that the alien cells they collected from the meteor ...
...forms are popping up all over the place, including an incredibly cute dog like creature and a rather vicious dog like piranha hybrid. There's also a bird like dinosaur thingy with a rather unusual way of dealing with shoplifters (lifting the said shoplifter quite literally into the air). It all gets quite out of control, and it’s up to Kane and co to save the day (in a rather dubious fashion I might add) rather than the army (who basically ... Read review

Advantages: Occasionally funny
Disadvantages: Doesn't do anything new and can be tedious at times

...since she saw mention of Evolution in one of my 'magazines'*. So finally it gets rolled out at our local picture emporium and off we marched... When a meteorite slams into the desert in deepest Arizona, local community college teachers Harry Block and Ira Kane head out to catalogue what will no doubt be another useless chunk of rock from outer space. But this isn't a normal rock - How many rocks bleed? Something is seriously wrong and a further ...
...impressive films ever since. Could Evolution be his chance to turn the corner back into quality street? The story has one foot firmly planted in science and it's obvious that someone along the line has understood the implications of throwing an alien into a closed eco-system (like ours). But is it any good? Well yes and no. While the story itself is passable, it certainly has echoes of Ghostbusters and I'll apologise right here for the numerous comparisons ... Read review

Advantages: great special effects, good acting, funny jokes
Disadvantages: Obvious product placement!

...them, but the jokes in Evolution seem to come naturally, rather than being artificial (as if a comedy about an out of control alien life form could ever be artificial!) And there you have the basis of the plot. Hold on a bit, let me explain some more. One dark and stormy night (ok it wasn’t stormy, but it was definitely dark) a meteorite lands in the deserts of Arizona. By an unfortunate coincidence, Wayne Green (Sean William Scott) happens to ...
...the time (you'll have to watch the film to get that one explained!), and nearly gets very squished. Luckily for poor Wayne, he manages to get out of the way just in time, unluckily for Wayne his car gets totalled by the rock, which crashes into one of the many caverns littering the area. Thus the next morning the local member of the United States Geological Survey, recently signed up by Internet and a teacher of Geology at the local college, one ... Read review

Advantages: high-action and funny
Disadvantages: some poor special effects

...end, but having said that Evolution is in fact much better! The film is set in a fictional Arizona town called Glen Canyon and opens with a meteor crashing towards earth. Trainee fireman Wayne Green (Seann William Scott) predictably has to race away from his car as the meteor chooses the only part of the vacant desert ground where there is anything it could possibly destroy to head towards! The former Mulder of "The X-Files" (Duchovny) plays Ira ...
...his geology professor friend Harry Block (Orlando Jones), are the first to stumble upon the mysterious meteor. The excited scientists discover living organisms on the meteor rock. However not only do these organisms begin to multiply but they also start to evolve at an alarming rate. They evolve from single-celled organisms, to worms, to fish, amphibians, reptiles and so on, in just a few days. Incredulously it takes them just these few days to achieve ... Read review