(rated PG-13, 105 mins)
Ivan Reitman may have made “Ghostbusters” a household name, but in Evolution, he attempt to revive those popular Bill Murray days to today’s young audiences, raised on potty movie jokes, with extended scenes like an emergency room probe of Orlando Jones’s colon and a 500 gallon enema given through a huge car-sized vial. Starring Jones and David Duchovny as community college professors of geology who discover microscopic, un-Earthly life forms on a meteorite, how rapidly they divide and wondering if they can save the world. Of course when the U S military gets involved with their own plan, the power struggle begins. Dan Ackroyd stars as the governor who screws up the plan, with Julianne Moore in a vanilla role as an accident-prone doctor from the Disease control unit and Duchovny’s love interest. While Reitman tries to combine his blockbuster ability of sci-fi, comedy and action adventure, this one comes off as a Ghostbuster rip-off with the stars are reduced to delivering lines and jokes that copy past flicks. And, I kept waiting for them to shoot green ooze over each other. Who you gonna call? Not Ivan Reitman.
