Wednesday, June 22, 2022

GOLDEN OLDIES 70: Evolution


 

And now,  for something completely different let me introduce you to one of the silliest movies I have yet to encounter, the little known and justly panned drama, Evolution.  I deliberately chose it as an antidote to the mind-numbing effect of the psychedelic war drama  Apocalypse Now,  GO69.   It worked.

Evolution was inflicted on the artistic world in 2001; it is described as a sci-fi comedy, which in a way I guess it is. It features David Duchovny of X Files fame, Julianne Moore , who was very good in The Shipping News, and a motley assortment of people I have never knowingly encountered anywhere  else.  It involves a threat to humanity from somewhere jn outer space, thankfully thwarted by Head and Shoulders shampoo.  It is stupid, raunchy, preposterous but – if you are in the right mood – worth a few chuckles.  C+/B-.

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