Go into this auditorium expecting a semi-mindless fun film, and you will have a blast. Should do good business.

Sorry, don't have the three eye option as yet.

Actually, that's good to hear. I was a little worried when the trailer says ' from the director of 'GhostBusters'. Not that GB is not a good film, just that 17 years is a long way to reach back to try and sell something.

On first viewing of the Trailer for
Evolution, it looked really funny.
But the more I looked at it the more
it looks worse than the joke films ID4 & MIB,
only very much worse.
(Plus the the foyer display scares the crap out of me. Every time I walk around the corner from the bio box, all I see is that dumb guy out of Dude, Where's my car?)

No I take that back, Id4 and MIB are ok.
I just wish that David would reaslise he
is typecast as Moulder and there is no getting out of it. X-Files is, or was big until he turned his back on it, I know 7 years is a long time, but his big screen stuff is going no where fast.

I better get some sleep, Michael will be mad if im late again - some genius progammed a 9.30pm of Pearl Harbor -(no prizes there), good luck Bill getting home at 12.45pm Sunday night!
At Hoyts our last one is 8.30. Thats better.

I remember reading that the original script was of a serious sci-fi horror film until Ivan Reitman decided to make it a comedy. I guess he figured no one would take it seriously.

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The man with the magic hands.

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I wanted to see this movie on opening night, bet didn't get the chance. I heard from several friends that the movie was hilarious, so I made a point to see it opening week, at least.

The movie wasn't as enjoyable as I thought it would be. I tend to dislike the "sudden scare" type of effect that this movie used several times. I could easily predict when a "sudden attack or scare" was going to occur because things would suddenly get calm and quiet.

I wish the movie had included some friendly, tame creatures. It seems that every single alien creature that developed was aggressive and hostile. When I first saw the green creature that the women were referring to as a "dog", I was really hoping it would be a friendly, tame creature as its appearance and facial expressions first led me to believe. Somehow, though, I knew that when the woman stuck her hand out to pet it, it was going to attack her violently.

The movie would have been more interesting with a mixture of good and bad life forms. As a comedy, they would have had a lot of opportunities to have fun with strange, wierd, friendly, funny alien life forms, and they could have had a more complex, more interesting plot that way, too.

The presentation was top notch. "Film Done Right" well describes this presentation, which is very typical of this particular theatre. This auditorium had a newly installed DTS system (about a month ago) and the sound and image quality were flawless.

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site

This film spoofs a genre of alien invasion films and does so reasonably successfully. To some extent David Duchovny spoofs Fox Mulder 'I've had experience with the Government...' although fortunately the film does not become as dark and brooding as the X-Files.

I must say that Dan Ackroyd seems to have lost a lot of his comedic punch. He overplays his character somewhat. In some ways he seems a shadow of his former comedic self which is a shame.

Nonetheless the film works quite well and doesn't take itself too seriously. The ghostbusters comparisons are there but the digital effects put this film into a different class.

Quite good and enjoyable effort from Ivan Reitman

I have one question though regarding casting. Was that Frank Oz doing a cameo?

Verdict (out of 5 stars) *** 1/2*

cheers Peter