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So much average

People are voting emotionally.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I really loved this film. Great acting, comedy and the special effects were campy enough to be funny and professional enough to not make the film look amateurish. I didn't find it had anything in common with MIB as some commented. It is a hilarious stand alone sci-fi comedy. I watched this on a Sunday afternoon and my wife and I were kept in stitches. Great entertainment and both of us highly recommend it for those who just want a fun escape.

Campy. But in a 90s way. Not intentionally so, but the stink of the 90s all over it. We looked it up. After 9/11? Uncomfortably close. Duchovny is not mulder, but he is. Plot doesn't matter. Creature movies are good. Scifi movies, where the scary thing is an oversimplification of one reasonably interesting scientific concept, are good. What if the monster kept evolving? Became a microcosm of evolutionary process. That movie needed to be made. It probably already had been.Is it a comedy? Well, yes. It is comedic. But it's like some characters are in a different movie than others. Like a slapstick and a procedural, side by side. Uneasy balance. The mood shifts.Essentially a demo reel for what range of bio monsters you could make with CGI in the early aughts. Looks like a video game, now. This movie tries some weird things, at least. It's pretty dumb, though.

Of films I've seen in the last however long, only Jupiter Ascending, among studio films, is as ineptly made. Every single joke fails. Every single moment fails - every feeling or response the film (presumably) intended to elicit from a viewer, it fails to elicit. None of the performances is any good, but you can't even blame them because there was just nothing at all to work with. These aren't even characters. The 'relationships' and pretty much every single thing that occurs in the film, is given such short shrift, is told so abruptly, that none of it can possibly pay off or work. We're in the middle of this thing and Julianne Moore's character (the whole character consists of a profession and an exaggerated clumsiness) starts talking deeply and familiarly to Duchovny's character, as if they've shared some great film flirtation and relationship prior to that, and we were seeing the latest episode in this great antagonistic flirtation - except no, they'd had like one scene together before then and had barely even talked. The whole movie's like that. And the jokes, or the humor - I mean just nothing works. You just have to guess where the humor was meant to be, so little is it actually there. Like, you have to try to figure what in a given scene or moment or interaction could have been meant to be funny. It's just terrible, scene for scene, shot for shot, moment for moment, joke for joke. A bad, bad movie. Also, there's one scene that I found especially hilarious (not on purpose). The guys have just killed the thing at the mall, and then there's just the most inexplicable little interlude I've ever seen in a movie - they cut to the trio in a jeep driving home, and they're all loudly singing "Play that funky music white boy" while doing like Night at the Roxbury head dancing. It's a complete non sequitur. It follows from nothing. Nothing follows from it. It isn't funny. It isn't interesting. Well, it's kind of interesting, as an object. But not interesting in the context of the story. So. Yea I just have no idea. I have no idea what this movie was even supposed to be. I regret having seen it but I'm proud I finished it.Oh I almost forgot - the Ghostbusters references. And honestly, in retrospect, maybe the entire movie was a Ghostbusters reference or an attempt to recapture that magic (this film DID succeed in recapturing the 'magic' of Ghostbusters 2, imo). OK, so Dan Aykroyd shows up as the governor and does his usual thing, and then - there's just a Ghostbusters scene. I mean Reitman basically just throws up a Ghostbusters scene, except with a much worse script and horrible characters in a horrible movie with horrible performers. The scene it's copying is the Ghostbusters scene where the EPA guy and the Ghostbusters are arguing in front of the mayor of NYC. In this film it's Ted Levine's general as the EPA guy, the good guys as the Ghostbusters, and Aykroyd as the mayor. It was weird. Just really weird. I dunno. If I've made this movie sound at all interesting or worth investigating, I apologize. It's not interesting. Don't see it. Watch something else.

Evolution (2001): Dir: Ivan Reitman / Cast: David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, Julianne Moore, Ted Levine: Ghostbusters rip-off that has no real bearing on evolution at all in a meaningful sense. David Duchovny plays a biology teacher and Orlando Jones plays a girls' volleyball coach who answer a call to the site where a meteor landed. A sample indicates that there is an organism evolving at an alarming rate. They are sabotaged when scientists take them to court to gain possession of the research. Although the solution is clever the plot is recycled and dull. It seems that director Ivan Reitman is trying to relive the success of Ghostbusters and failing miserably. Duchovny is basically playing his X-Files role while Jones spouts one-liners as if he was auditioning for a nightclub gig. Julianne Moore serves no purpose than to play the woman. She doesn't even get slimed when things get unbelievably messy. Seann William Scott who opens the film, becomes unnecessary from each passing moment. The special effects will remind viewers of Ghostbusters and while the effects here are good, they are not accompanied with a story worth evolving into a movie to begin with. Ghostbusters is funnier and far better written but Reitman proves that he cannot catch lightning in a bottle. It is a pointless and boring mess that should be sent through a blender. Score: 2 / 10