Evolution is a movie dirrected by Ivan Reitman released on
June 8, 2001. It stars
David Duchovny,
Julianne Moore,
Orlando Jones,
Seann William Scott, and Sarah Silverman.
The gist of the movie is that a
meteor, carrying
alien organisms hits the
New Mexico desert. The aliens multiply and evolve at an alarmingly fast rate threatening to take over the world. A
community college science professor (
Duchovny), his eccentric
geologist buddy (Jones), a wannabe
fireman (Scott) and a
government scientist (Moore) are brought together to deal with the invasion.
The movie is pretty stupid and I had recieved it as a joke from my brother, since I'm obsessed with
the X-files (which costars Duchovny).
However, I did enjoy it. It is one of those
movies that is so stupid, it's just worth watching. And they do make it funny without being annoying about it, which I'm
impressed with. The
dialogue is lacking a lot, but there are some great moments stuck in there.
I am a
freshman bio major at
Cornell University and am taking the typical intro bio class. So the
evolutionary talk in the movie was familiar and I was impressed with the interesting facts they stuck in. For example, following the evolutionary trends of the alien, they talked about
unicellular to
multicellular organisms, even evolving to
flatworms (platyhelmenthes).
So, go ahead and watch it. You'll come away
saying what a stupid movie, but with a
smile on your face. And at the end, isn't that the most
important part?