Starring: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, Dan Ackroyd
Director: Ivan Reitman
Category: IIA
The film: Ivan Reitman has been responsible for some pretty funny films in the past including Animal House, Stripes and Ghostbusters. The latter really propelled him to the top of the Hollywood food chain where he has been able to pick and choose his projects at will.
However, it seems he has increasingly been running out of original material (Father's Day, Junior) and Evolution is no exception. Coming a good four years after Men In Black, this film is basically Ghostbusters with aliens - a sci-fi comedy as it were. Um, this has been done already, Mr Reitman.
It has also been done a lot better. Evolution's basic premise is that a meteor lands on Earth and it contains basic extraterrestrial life that soon starts to mimic the evolution of life on Earth as it adjusts to the atmosphere. However, everything is evolving very quickly and most of it is particularly nasty.