Found this at IMDB...


by DoctorParagon

19 years, 10 months ago


The Red part.

From the comments posted for the Film: Evolution.
Can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251075/usercomments

"Just plain fun, 7 May 2004

Author: Shawn Watson (gator_macready@yahoo.com) from Badger's Brook, Scotland


It's clear that as long as Ivan Reitman works in sci-fi comedy he will never achieve the greatness he did with Ghostbusters. That movie was a masterpiece of genius. Evolution is nothing but a fun ride that comes nowhere near the class of Ghostbusters. But it's still well worth it.


Weird really when you consider that Ghostbusters: Go to Hell, the second sequel in which hell got so full that spirits started spilling out into the real world, was re-written and redrafted that it became this…something completely different. You probably know the story. A meteor crash lands in the desert and the single celled organisms living on it very, very quickly become multi celled and then little worm creatures and then…many other things. The movie repeatedly calls them aliens but since they evolve from nothing on earth and are conditioned by earth's environment they are, effectively, earth creatures. Watching them run riot and cause havoc is the main fun of this film.

Ghostbusters had a dry, sarcastic sense of humor, like a fine wine. Evolution has a crude, gross-out sense of humor like American Pie, which seriously lessens the overall quality of the film. The lead trio of actors perform rather well together. Duchovny is much looser and easy-going here than his stiff, X-Files character. Seann William-Scott once again plays a dufus but he's more endearing here than he has been in other roles. Orlando Jones is kind of good but he too often takes his role in the stereotyped ‘only black guy in a white movie’ direction. Sadly though, Julianne Moore's accident-prone scientist just isn't funny and her clumsiness seems false and forced.

But obviously when you judge Evolution next to something better it seems an inferior movie. Judge it on it's own terms and you'll definitely enjoy. The DVD is in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen (though it really could have benefited from a scope 2.35:1 aspect ratio) and is in rather lacklustre Dolby 5.1"


Thoughts?

by Kingpin

19 years, 10 months ago


Well, it really just prooves that the poster was aware of the more commonly known knowledge on the pratically if not officially dead second sequel to Ghostbusters, that hell became so full it was running over into New York City.

Though, I wonder just how much of ‘GB3’ got used in Evolution, of course, probably none, but it'd be interesting to speculate what might've originally been used in Dan's unsed scripts.

by DoctorParagon

19 years, 10 months ago


I don't necessarily believe what the comment stated but I found it
very interesting, especially since both plots involve a problem coming
from the depths and subsequently spreading out of control.

I thought the film (Evolution) was pretty banal despite the “yucking it
up” factor nailed bleeding to the side of the film. It could have been
pretty good all things considered but the various factors just didn't
blend well. The notion of the whole framework of it being written for
a different cast and style could explain why it was so damned flat.

by d_osborn

19 years, 10 months ago


hmmm… i wonder if there's any truth to that subtitle. i always thought GHOSTBUSTERS GO TO HELL would be there perfect title for the concept they had. can anyone confirm earlier or later drafts of HELLBENT had the GO TO HELL subtitle?

by Peter_Randall

19 years, 10 months ago


I thought Evolution was perhaps a little closer to Dan's original idea for Ghostbusters, seeing as they were mopping up alien scum. And the film does have hints of GB in it; the modified fire-truck Vs the modified ambulance, the pseudo science…

by MasterSpider

19 years, 10 months ago


No truth to that. Evolution was in no way related to Ghostbusters III other than having the same speculated director…

by d_osborn

19 years, 10 months ago


i belive EVOLUTION actually started out as a horror movie.