Evolution 2001 I Will Never Shoplift Again

Evolution is a 2001 American science fiction comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, Julianne Moore and Ted Levine. In the The states, it was released by DreamWorks and internationally, past Columbia Pictures.

A brusk-lived animated series, Alienators: Evolution Continues, that was loosely based on the film, was broadcast three months after the movie was released.

Plot [ ]

Wayne Grey (Seann William Scott) is practicing a fireman rescue in the desert exterior the sleepy town of Glen Canyon. All the same, earlier he can savour his victory of a successful practise and good timing, a meteor falls out of the night sky and plummets into the ground, causing his automobile to fly into the air and crash downward, severely damaged. Elsewhere, the next day, Customs college professor, Ira Kane (David Duchovny) has but dealt with the idiots of his class - the Donald brothers Deke (Ethan Suplee) and Danny (Michael Ray Bower) - and is taken past his friend, geology teacher/girls' volleyball coach Harry Cake (Orlando Jones) to investigate the meteor as office of his job as a member of the U.Due south.Thou.S. (which he signed up for by accident).

They run across Wayne and the constabulary who have been questioning him all dark, learning that the falling star fell through the ground and into a network of cloak-and-dagger tunnels. Later informing the police of their authority, Ira and Harry have a sample of the meteor, just to notice, much to their cliffhanger, that it bleeds out blue liquid. While Harry coaches a volleyball game, Ira investigates a sample of the blue liquid to detect single-celled nitrogen-based organisms that multiply rapidly, leading Ira to conclude that these organisms are extraterrestrial. Bringing Harry back from the game to encounter the aliens in person, Ira is shocked to find that they accept evolved in multi-cellular organisms by the time they return. Ira is truly shocked by this, just Harry can merely call back virtually how this discovery may win them a Nobel Peace Prize.

Impressed, the two take the science class to survey the meteor site the next day, planning to recall the meteor for their own tests nether the guise of their beingness nether orders from the UsaK.S. However, much to their surprise, the ooze from the meteor has apace evolved into oxygen-converting fungi and alien flatworms that thrive in the converted atmosphere. Unable to call back the meteor now, they accept some flatworms back with them in a container and learn that they reproduce through mitosis (splitting apart). Harry thinks they should involve the authorities with this, but Ira thinks dissimilar; he believes that since they discovered the aliens, they should be the ones to do the testing. In the meantime, Wayne, who works at the land guild, finds some expressionless flatworms appearing well-nigh the water heater room while retrieving a fresh towel for annoying patron Barry Cartwight; trying to toxicant the flatworms, Wayne is scared off by a reptile-similar alien that evolved from a flatworm that got into the water tank.

The next day, Ira and Harry find that their specimens have multiplied into 3 dissimilar sub-species, wondering what they will find at the meteor site at present. However, upon arrival, they observe that the ground forces has begun setting upwards a base of operations, much to their annoyance. When Ira asks a guard to inform his superior of his and Harry's connection to the site, another soldier tries to point a gun at him because of something Ira did in the by, only is chop-chop detained by other soldiers; Harry wonders what Ira did, merely he remains mum about it. Allowed in, they run across General Russell Woodman (Ted Levine), head of army research who worked with Ira in the past. Woodman reveals that they have been hacking into Ira'due south computer to keep and eye on him and his activities, much to Harry'due south shock because of some pictures he had on it. They meet klutzy Dr Allison Reed (Julianne Moore), head of epidemiology at the C.D.C., who views Ira's actions as dangerous, simply promises to keep him and Harry informed of the enquiry they will do with the aliens. Annoyed, Harry and Ira bulldoze away, promising they will get back at them, while Ira moons Woodman in revenge.

Around two weeks afterward, Harry and Ira have taken Woodman and Reed to court for the correct to exist office of the conflicting research, but Woodman has an ace up his sleeve to brand Ira wait incompetent every bit a scientist; five years ago, he was discharged from the army considering of an anti-anthrax drug he created and tested on soldiers resulted in a long list of terrible physical and mental disorders called the 'Kane Madness'. The guess rules in favor of the armed services and forbids Ira and Harry from approaching the base of operations. Heading back to their lab, Harry tries to cheer Ira upwards past informing him that Dr. Reed likes him, merely Ira one time over again thinks otherwise. However, upon reaching their lab, they find Woodman has had it cleaned of all their samples and research files on the aliens, much to their growing anger. Harry wishes to call the constabulary, but Ira signal out that they ARE the police; Harry wonder what to do.

That night, Ira dresses in his old uniform and Harry dresses as a private, allowing them entrance to the lab. Acquiring protection suits, they head hugger-mugger to go another sample of the meteor and a specimen, finding that the fungi has evolved into a rain forest and the creatures take reached the size of pets; some of the plants are live and carnivorous. Failing to catch a specimen out of Harry's fear of dying due to movies he has seen and other creatures eating smaller ones, Harry notices an conflicting with a large behind subsequently seeing an alien with a caput on the front and the dorsum of it is eaten by it. Harry once again tells Ira that Dr. Reed has a matter for him. Above, Dr. Reed and the others accept noticed Ira and Harry, overhearing their chat. Ira believes Dr. Reed has no human emotions what-then-ever, being an "ice queen". However, Harry thinks she just acts like that every bit a cover and just needs some good sexual activity. Annoyed, Ira reminds him the purpose of why they're there and they head to collect a meteor sample. However, Dr. Reed, Flemming, and another soldier arrive and catch them. Dr. Reed explains that she did not take their notes and specimens afterwards Ira accuses her and begins questioning the others if THEY did. Their conversation is cut curt when an alien fly manages to get into Harry's adapt so inside him. They take him to the surgical wing of the lab and begin wondering how to remove it. A doctor decides to rectally remove the fly, much to the pain of Harry, who, once the wing is removed and so dies within a few moments, tries to strangle the doctor. Nonetheless, Allison and Ira agree him down and at-home him. Harry asks for an ice foam, but instead of eating it, he wants to use it to sooth the hurting in his behind.

Elsewhere that night, Wayne is working at the state order, where he has become extremely annoyed with the ridiculous things they have him due for a paycheck. In the meantime, Barry Cartwight is preparing a picnic for his engagement on the golf class past a pond, only to be attacked by an amphibious conflicting and dragged into the water where he is eaten. His date (who saw the attack but did zilch to aid) runs into the main hall and screams that Barry is expressionless. Wayne is quite pleased by this news, only masks this the best he can.

In the meantime, Allison is questioning Ira about his by and wonders why he is taking such extreme measures. Ira explains that he has been EXILED in Arizona for five years; the shooting star was his near likely take a chance of getting a good reputation and a way out of Glen Canyon. Allison reveals that she heard everything Ira (and Harry) said about her (how she says it is different, mayhap meaning what she bodily thinks of herself), telling Ira that he doesn't know about her. Pleased that Allison is not the common cold-hearted person he thought she was, Ira thanks her for not arresting them.

The next morning, Ira and Harry (still in pain) return to Ira's part to find Wayne waiting for them. He has with him the (at present dead) amphibian alien, having watched it asphyxiate to death the previous dark with a mob. Both Ira and Harry are shocked by this, believing the aliens are crawling out of the caves and trying to adapt to their environment.

Elsewhere, some women have found a reptilian pug-like conflicting in a closet, believing it to exist a scared dog. However, subsequently it uses an inner mouth to bite one of them, they call 911 while i of them grabs a subconscious gun from a drawer. Before a shot can be fired, the conflicting dies and comically deflates, with the women wondering what the hell it is.

At a hotel, Ira has caught upwards to a tired Allison and informs her of the aliens spreading. However, she is confident that they can handle the outbreak. Ira warns her pride like that was HIS undoing and convinces her to ask Woodman to find a mode to kill the aliens. As a bonus question, Ira wonders if Allison is attracted to him, just gets a "Goodbye Ira" in response as she leaves. Ira takes this as a "yeah" while Allison tin be seen with a grin.

At a eating house, Wayne and Harry having breakfast; Wayne wonders if Harry sees the daughter'southward volleyball squad shower and, much to his shock, finds Harry does and sometimes showers with them. Ira arrives and informs them that Allison has been won over and will talk to Woodman about killing the aliens. Much to Ira's surprise he finds his ex-wife at the table next to him with the officeholder he get-go met at the meteor site, nearly tricking her into taking off her shirt (stolen from him). They eavesdrop the officeholder get a telephone call well-nigh an animal attack and caput out afterward him.

They arrive soon after at the business firm the alien dog attacked. They check the inside of the house while Wayne does a parameter bank check. They observe the alien crawled through the dirt with flatworms. Wayne enters and tells them there is something they have to see. He takes them to the ledge, where they notice several dragon-like aliens (some dead or dying). Climbing down, Harry realizes that the aliens have been using the network of tunnels under Glen Coulee to get around, much to the surprise to Ira. To their daze, ane of the still breathing aliens barfs out a pod earlier dying; it hatches into a yellowish dragon alien that is tolerant to Oxygen. It flies abroad, much to Ira'due south horror as they chase after it.

They follow it to a mall, where it wreaks havoc and captures a girl attempting to shoplift after hearing her singing in the changing room (manifestly hating music). They "commandeer" some guns in the store and chase later on it. However, the crowd causes them to lose sight of it. Ira and Harry are prepared to leave and requite upward, merely Wayne tries bird calls, much to their failure and Harry's annoyance. Wayne and then begins singing, which draws the alien back to them. Ira gives a single shot that puts the bird down while Harry rescues the shoplifter, who promises not to shoplift again. Ira, Wayne and Harry go over to the conflicting and joke almost carving it like a turkey every bit it regains consciousness. Each fires a shot, killing it. They leave the mall and sing along with the radio every bit they head dorsum to the research lab.

In the meantime, other incidents (along with the expressionless dragon aliens) began happening through Glen Coulee, catching the attention of the media. Wind of this gets to the Arizona Governor, Lewis (Dan Aykroyd), who is airlifted to the base, where he chews out Woodman and the staff for keeping aliens hole-and-corner from him. Allison then explains that they are in serious trouble now, because if they permit the alien ecosystem to abound, in two months, it will cover the United States. Lewis is shocked, wondering if it is a bad joke. Ira, Harry and Wayne enter and Woodman tries to place blame of the alien outbreak on them. However, Lewis cares less virtually Woodman'due south lies and wonders what he is going to do about it.

Woodman explains his programme to evacuate anybody from 5 miles of the infected area and "bomb the alien menace correct the hell out of there" with napalm. However, their attention is diverted from the plan to several cameras being destroyed by the aliens, which have now evolved into primates. They detect they have broken through the air-lock and are using lift. However, when it comes upwards, it is empty. The lights become out and the conflicting apes bursts through the tarp over the impact pigsty, taking the most cowardly soldier back downward with them equally Wayne shoots the last ane, saving the governor and Ira. Scared, Lewis gives Woodman permission to become every bit far every bit he needs to go rid of the aliens; Woodman promises to be ready by noon the next day to burn the aliens. He has Ira, Harry and Wayne removed from the base and tells Allison that she needs to be working. Fed upwardly with Woodman, Allison leaves with the stolen inquiry material taken from Ira, joining him, Harry and Wayne on their trip back to the college.

On the trip through the town, the find the number of people being evacuated ridiculous, coming to the conclusion that "they're gonna accident upwardly the whole boondocks". They make it at the college to find most of the students drunk and dancing while constabulary social club them to leave; others are just panicking at the thought of aliens. Inside the lab, Ira tries to talk with the ooze to get an respond on what it's weakness is, only to be met with stares of disbelief. Harry accidentally tosses a friction match into it, causing a shapeless scarlet mass to abound from the ooze. They all realize that heat triggers the aliens evolution; Wayne advises Allison to call Woodman. However, Woodman is even so mad with Allison and refuses the telephone call. Deke and Danny make it, giving the four some beer to help them relax every bit Ira notices the periodic table on Allison'south shirt, coming upward with an idea. Selenium might be poisonous to the aliens every bit they are nitrogen-based just like arsenic is poisonous to carbon-based life-forms, based on their similar positions in relation to each other on the periodic table. Realizing it would be almost incommunicable to discover 5000 gallons of selenium at ii o'clock in the morning, Ira is shocked and surprised when Deke and Danny think that "selenium sulfide" is the active ingredient in Head & Shoulders dandruff shampoo, prompting Ira to award them both A grades in his class, much to the brothers' excitement.

As everyone else is pouring as much Head & Shoulders shampoo as possible in a firetruck, Allison tells Ira she would have rocked his globe, to which he tells her she already has. The truck filled to the max, the squad takes of, just to find too many soldiers effectually the main cavern. Harry tells them they can gain access from an abased argent mine, which they soon arrive at. Once through, Ira sends Wayne upwards to the truck to pump the selenium through. Above, Woodman is informed that they tin blow up the aliens early and is under threat of the governor to be demoted if he screws upwardly and begins the festivities. Inside the cave, Team Ira is forced to flee outside as the aliens are swallowed by a large ruddy mass that becomes an enormous amoeba past melding together into a single entity. After it surfaces, the amoeba slowly begins mitosis and is found to be invulnerable to conventional weapons; it will go along growing and dividing until it covers Earth.

Wayne wonders if they still plan to use the selenium and this prompts everyone to become for an "all of nothing" endeavor as they begin heading to the creature, passing fleeing soldiers. Looking for a signal of assault, they observe a rectum, which is the only vulnerable part of the giant. Harry goes up the ladder (intending to settle the score with the conflicting wing from earlier) and shoots the dandruff shampoo into it, causing the mitosis to stop and the fauna to brainstorm sagging, causing Harry to be half-way swallowed into it. Ira rescues him every bit the creature begins swelling. They manage to leave before the creature explodes into a rain of lime goo. Perchance as an act of karma, Woodman is splattered with a ton of goo and has to be hosed off, much to his acrimony.

Afterwards bragging about Head and Shoulders coming from Arizona, Lewis introduces, Ira, Harry, Wayne and Allison as heroes for discovering a way to kill the aliens. Allison suggestive tells Ira he wouldn't miss getting recognition "for anything"; he smiles dorsum. Both quietly back out of sight as Wayne is given a medal and told he is going to be fabricated a firefighter; he failed his entry exam because he was forced to stay up late answering questions about the shooting star. Harry is so awarded a medal, being called a "noted geologist and the winningest coach in Arizona women'south volleyball" before giving a brief voice communication. Allison and Ira, take entered the firetruck afterwards taking off their coats. Lewis so goes to congratulate them, only to find that they are gone. Harry tells Lewis "I call up he'due south giving her a chip of the Kane Madness", to which he knows what that ways.

The film ends with Harry, Ira and Wayne as spokesmen for Head & Shoulders with a clip of them chasing the dragon alien in the jeep while "Out With a Blindside" by Self plays in the background: "Wow, Fighting the conflicting menace can be a tough job. And so is keeping your hair shiny and dandruff complimentary. So it's a good thing nosotros always go on a healthy supply of Head & Shoulders around the house!" The film ends with the dragon alien roaring and lunging at the screen.

Cast [ ]

• David Duchovny as Colonel (Ret.) Ira Kane
• Julianne Moore as Dr. Allison Reed, PhD.
• Orlando Jones as Prof. Harry Block
• Seann William Scott as Wayne Grey
• Ted Levine every bit Brigadier Full general Russell Woodman

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