Evolution Page #6

Synopsis: When a meteorite falls to Earth two college professors, Dr. Ira Kane and Prof. Harry Phineas Block, are assigned the job of checking the site out. At the site, they discover organisms not of this planet. Soon the site is taken over by the government, forcing Ira and Harry to the side. As the new life-forms begin to evolve and start to get more and more dangerous, it's up to the two professors to save the planet.
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Ivan Reitman
Production: Dreamworks Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
40
Rotten Tomatoes:
43%
PG-13
Year:
2001
101 min
$37,571,347
Website
1,320 Views


- Criminal charges are in order here.

This is bullshit!

Shut up! Listen.

My state is being overrun

byvicious aliens.

You're all supposed to be the experts.

I want to know right now.

How the hell areyou supposed

to deal with this?

This is an outline ofthe infected area

as ofthis afternoon.

Governor, my plan...

is to evacuate everyone from

within five miles ofthe perimeter.

Evacuation? You're talking

about 10,000 people.

Yes, sir. We evacuate, make it safe...

and then burn the alien menace

the hell out ofthere.

With what?

With napalm.

Lots and lots ofnapalm.

Napalm? Why don'tyoujust nuke them

whileyou're at it?

What about nukes?

Pull your horns in, boys.

Nobody's dropping an H-bomb on my state.

All this talk about napalm and burning

things makes me very damn nervous.

It should. We don't know their reaction

to such an attack on a cellular level.

Governor, it is time for

a military solution. This will work.

General, sorry to interrupt.

You better take a look at this.

What?

Clear out.

What? You called me out for this?

Sir, one ofthe creatures

destroyed video four.

What's going on there?

My God!

They've evolved into primates.

That's a face for radio.

They took out six and seven.

All the monitors are down.

That can't be good.

That's the elevator.

We have no personnel down there.

They breached the air lock.

The no-nose chimp?

Call for backup.

We need backup!

They're going through the elevator!

Cover the elevator!

Stay back behind me.

Get the hell offme!

I want to see this thing!

Be prepared to fire.

It's empty, sir.

The governor!

- Do something!

- Hold your fire!

You'll get somebody killed.

Nice shot.

I'll take that now.

You have my full support to do whatever

you need to do, however much firepower.

You can melt the place to beaded glass

ifthat's what it takes.

Just get these hell-blown creazoids

out ofmy state!

Thankyou, Governor.

I'll be ready to go by noon tomorrow.

Good.

- Where haveyou two been?

- I was getting out ofthe way.

Get me out ofhere.

Science project's over.

I wantyou and your people gone.

- Soldier, escort these men out.

- Yes, sir.

Don'tyou have work to do?

You are such an a**hole.

When a woman expresses anger,

it's often because--

Shut up, Flemming.

Okay, I know where the car is.

Wipe my ass too?

Hey, guys?

Got room for one more?

Hell, yeah.

Who wants to be deputy director anyway?

The real money's in the private sector.

- Areyou sure about this?

- Oh, yeah.

Listen, it may not seem like much, but

I gotyour research files and samples.

So, ifwe survive this,

you guys will get the credit.

Thankyou.

- It's nothing.

- No, thank-- Let me get this.

- No, I got it.

- All right.

Sorry. Excuse me.

We haven't been formally introduced yet.

I'm Wayne Grey.

- Oh, hey, I'm kinda with him.

- Oh, that's cool.

Buckle up, Allison. We're rolling.

Okay. Oh, goodness!

Facilitiesarebeingprovided

foryouandyour families.

Pleasemove inan orderly fashion

to thesafe zone.

They're gonna blow up the whole town.

Attention. Weneedto clearthisarea.

Foryourownsafety,

evacuateimmediately.

Can you make a beer run?

- Professor Kane!

- Arizona is going down, baby!

This may not be the best time

foryou boys to be drinking.

I was your first.

We discovered you in that cave.

You were scared and alone.

It was just you, me and Harry

in the beginning. Those were good times.

Why don't you level with me?

You can trust me.

Talk to me.

Just tell me the secret.

Tell me the answer.

Tell me how to kill you!

You are losing it, pal.

What is that stuff?

Some ofthe original liquid material

from inside the meteor.

- Why hasn't it evolved like the rest?

- I don't know.

Maybe because it was refrigerated...

was locked in an airtight case,

didn't have anything to metabolize with.

But regardless, that doesn't give us

any clues to--

When did you start smoking?

Not much ofa point

to clean living anymore.

Whoa!

These things react to fire

like it was Miracle-Gro.

Fire.

The organisms were dormant in space and

then collided with Earth's atmosphere.

And bam! Heat. Fire.

That's the catalyst.

So ifa little match catalyzes this

stuff, what's a ton ofnapalm gonna do?

So much for the military option.

Call that dick general.

That's a lot ofnapalm.

Yes, it is.

We're going to blow those damn creatures

straight to hell.

We'll fush them out

along the mine shafts...

then mop up the edges as they run

trying to escape the fames.

Excuse me, General.

There's an urgent call from Dr. Reed.

She says she has important information

about the mission.

Really? Well, unfortunately,

I'm not available.

Anything more?

No, sir.

He blew me off.

Can you believe it?

That bastard

wouldn't even take my call.

You did call him an a**hole.

- Hey, Dr. K. Time to party.

- We got beer.

- I'll take one.

- Me too. I just quit smoking.

What areyou boys doing here?

We thoughtyou could use a brewski

to mellow out.

Kick back and chill.

Have a beer, relax.

It's gonna helpyou with your research.

Whoa! Look at that thing!

Whoa! Can we have that when you guys

are done with it?

Fellas, thankyou foryour help

and the beers, but we're working.

Hold it. Hold it.

- Look at that.

- What areyou doing?

Selenium.

That could be the answer.

I'm looking at the Periodic Table on

yourT-shirt and I see this pattern.

- Take offyour shirt. I'll showyou.

- Yes!

No, I don't think so.

We are a carbon based life-form.

Keep pulling, Dr. K.

We move down here, and you've found

our poison:
arsenic.

But the aliens are nitrogen based,

right?

You make the same move down and over...

and where doyou find yourself?

- Selenium.

- Selenium.

Could be as lethal to them

as arsenic is to us.

And with their metabolic rates,

it'll kill them fast.

Selenium. How much do we need?

Five hundred gallons could do it,

should do it.

Five hundred gallons?

Um, I hate to be a buzzkill, but where

are we gonna get that at 2:00 a.m.?

No problem.

Yeah, we can get that.

Head & Shoulders.

The dandruffshampoo?

Yeah, that's the stuff. The active

ingredient is selenium sulfide.

How doyou know that?

You don't know anything.

Haven'tyou noticed how shiny

and fake-free our hair is?

Okay, this is the best idea we got.

Let's give it a shot. Come on.

Let's do it!

Yeah! We'll get the troops together.

We're getting shampoo!

I've got the vehicle.

Good! Donalds, youjust gotyourA's.

Yes!

Almost full.

There's something I feel I should

tell you, but I don't know exactly how.

Just say it. We're adults and we're all

about to die a very horrible death.

So?

I would've rocked yourworld.

- You already have.

- We're full!

Battle stations! Lock and load!

- Can we continue this discussion later?

- Yes.

Let's do this!

Let's shampoo us some aliens!

Lots ofsoldiers around.

There's an abandoned mine halfa click

south ofhere. We can sneak in there.

Halfa click? What areyou,

in Vietnam?

Hey, I'm digging this.

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David Diamond

David Diamond is an American screenwriter. His film credits include The Family Man, Old Dogs, When in Rome, Evolution and the television film Minutemen. Frequently collaborates with David Weissman. more…

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