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It starts as a fifties war-of-the-worlds pastiche: an alien life-form arrives in a meteor and quickly mutates, threatening to destroy Arizona as we know it. But the life-form has a hidden weakness, and only two junior-college science teachers (David Duchovny and Orlando Jones) can stop it. As they investigate, the two men become a joshing white-black buddy team, a low-grade version of the partnership between Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith in "Men in Black." The lousy jokes they exchange undercut the tension and destroy what might have been an interesting idea: that the organism, energized by the earth's atmosphere, wil
It starts as a fifties war-of-the-worlds pastiche: an alien life-form arrives in a meteor and quickly mutates, threatening to destroy Arizona as we know it. But the life-form has a hidden weakness, and only two junior-college science teachers (David Duchovny and Orlando Jones) can stop it. As they investigate, the two men become a joshing white-black buddy team, a low-grade version of the partnership between Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith in "Men in Black." The lousy jokes they exchange undercut the tension and destroy what might have been an interesting idea: that the organism, energized by the earth's atmosphere, will recap the process of evolution from a single-cell organism to primate in only a few days. Played for laughs, the idea just seems an odd way of launching a multitude of bugs, dinosaurs, and apes into houses and shopping malls. The movie itself mutates from one thing to another, throwing in beer slobs for the frat-house crowd, fart jokes for the preteens, and so on. Directed by Ivan Reitman, who used to know what he was doing.
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Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
Release date: 26 December 2001
Number of discs: 1
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