Evolution Movie Review:


When a meteor slams into the Arizona desert and nasty alien life forms begin oozing from it, who you gonna call? You would of course call David Duchovney and Orlando Jones, two teachers from the local community college. Together, these E.T. Buster wannabes try to contain the otherworldly forces that confront them, while attempting to act silly at the same time. Help in the form of an equilibrium-challenged Julianne Moore is introduced as both a love interest and an additional source of silliness to aid our zany scientists in their work.

This movie had the potential to be a really great piece of science fiction comedy, but had an equal chance to be a really awful one. However unlikely, Evolution manages to fail on both counts. Most of the laughs are only due to Duchovney's involvement in the television program and film The X-Files. None of those laughs are because of the script, mind you, but simply that Duchovney has chosen this role as his first departure from his X-Files character of Fox Mulder. As for other laughs, they are few and far between. It appears that everyone involved knew this from the outset, as desperate acts of physical humor attempt to make up for the lack of funny dialogue. Also attempting to be funny is Orlando Jones, who has a couple funny lines, but is rather sadly given nothing better to do than rattle off variations on the same tired "this always happens to the black guy" type of joke for most of the movie. Most of the other jokes provided by the script are equally or more tasteless in nature. Lastly, this film ends almost as successfully as the average Saturday Night Live sketch, and that is not a good thing!

On the bright side, this movie does have a few impressive special effect sequences, a great cast and, well, um, I guess that's about it for the bright side. So, if you were hoping to discover that missing link between
Ghostbusters and Men in Black, keep searching because Evolution certainly isn't it.

Allen J Vestal

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