I saw EVOLUTION, and I have to admit it was a good movie! (major spoiler inside)

Who would have guessed a film about aliens in which the heroes use shampoo to kill the fast evolving creatures? (Fire, explosives, and napalm they actually fed on).

It was another example of blatant capitalism when Proctor & Gamble's most famous shampoo product gets a huge plug at the end when David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Julianne Moore, and the young man do a TV commercial for Head & Shoulders where a giant alien bird flies through a canyon!

What I liked about Evolution is that producer/director Ivan Reitman didn't go as much for the underage audience this time. There were some of the usual juevenile gags, but not constantly. A lot more time was given to develop and "evolve" the human actors, including the 2 college professors turned alien hunters played by Duchovny and former MAD TV regular Jones.

Reitman produced many movies over the years, including Howard Stern's Private Parts a few years ago. But Evolution may be the first film he personally directed - or at least too credit for since both of the Ghostbusters movies in the 1980s. Before that he directed Animal House in the late 1970s.

Some familiar faces turned up in Evolution, including current MAD TV player Pat Kilbane (as a cop with a mustache). Just as their were two performers from MAD TV there were also two ex-Saturday Night Live performers:

Dan Aykroyd was amusing in the role of the "give-em-hell" Governor of Arizona and Sarah Silverman as Denise, the young woman who borrowed too many of David's character's shirts. Sarah was on SNL during the 1993-1994 season as a featured player and in 1996 she had a big guest role as a computer programmer in our time in the Star Trek: Voyager two-parter "Future's End". She is the daughter of successful multiple TV network President turned independent TV producer Fred Silverman.