2001 · comedy · sci-fi · action
Evolution
Directed by Ivan Reitman1h 42m2001
A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the only people standing between the aliens and world domination... which could be bad news for the Earth.
Our read: Evolution (2001) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal comedy · sci-fi · action entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- surreal
- epic-stakes
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“You want dumb-fun alien chaos with Duchovny quips and gross-out gags.”
Skip it tonight — You cannot tolerate broad early-2000s comedy that treats science like slapstick.
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