Film 2: Evolution

Well here we go! Film number two and it's another "comedy" role for Julianne. I'm on my summer holidays so my brain is going a bit mushy so forgive me for starting with two light hearted Julianne roles. I chose this because I was unsure and my friend Emma - she teaches people how to act and has fairly similar hair to Julianne, maybe that's why I like her - suggested Evolution. I remember this film because I saw it when I started working in the Odeon cinema when I was just a youngster. Loved the X-Files so was happy to see a bit of Duchovny but hey, lets not kid ourselves, I'm here for Julianne. This is going to be a live blog and then I'll round things up at the end. Come on Julianne, hurry up and appear!

What happened to Orlando Jones? He's pretty funny in this! Mulder is good banter too.

Just IMDB'd and apparantly it was Julianne's idea for her character to be clumsy, they so should have made more of it. Still waiting for the great lady to appear...

I forgot 24 legend CHARLES LOGAN was the owner of the country club!

"And the CDC..."

Julianne is here and she falls flat on her face! She looks so lovely. When Mulder gets his backside out, I love the little look on Julianne's face, brilliant!

Love Julianne's delivery of "a humerous ice queen in need of a good humping"

Loving clumsy Julianne, 50 minutes in for the brilliant door slam!

"Play that funky music white boy!"

There really isn't enough Julianne in this film for my liking, god help me when I get to Eagle Eye or - shudder - Pippa Lee.

I love it when Julianne swears - "This is bullshit!"

"I would have rocked your world!" Go Julianne!



FILM REVIEW

So Evolution is over. You know what, for a lazy Tuesday afternoon when I'm wearing orange bemuda shorts, it was perfect. I was able to remove my brain and really enjoy it. Apparantly it was originally a dramatic script and was turned into a comedy and it worked. I loved the banter between the three male leads. Duchovny was great riffing on his popular Fox Mulder character and Orlando Jones was a good wacky sidekick. Yeah it's stupid but so many funny little moments, Harry with the alien up his jacksee, the shoplifting idiot and Charles Logan being dragged into a river. I also really enjoyed the two fat guy idiots, okay I know it's easy comedy and I shouldnt be laughing and finding them funny as they are cliched "fat idiots" but I did! They even stick in a little advert for Head and Shoulders to riff on their blatant product placement.

JULIANNE REVIEW

So to Julianne, she really made me smile this afternoon. There is just something so charming and effortless about her in this film. I loved her clumsy stuff, walking into the door is just brilliant, loved it! Liked her concerned voice when Harry was on the hospital bed, it worked and was funny because she was so aware they were all taking the utter mick out of something that was supposed to be serious.

It will be so much easier to write about Julianne in her dramatic roles but there is just something so endearing about her when she does these little comedy roles just like in Laws of Attraction. She comes across as so likeable and believable but underneath there is always a little bit more. With Audrey it was the fact she had given up on love and that made her sad and with Allison it was the fact she had become so serious and had no love or adventure in her life. As she goes on, she lightens up due to Ira's obvious attraction to her and starts to get caught up in the excitement of it all. I think that is really hard to capture in a film where you would not expect much top quality acting, but that's what Julianne is all about. I think the idea of losing that fun and excitement in life - like Allison - is all too real. These days it's so easy to get caught up in work and mortgages and paying bills that you feel old far too soon. I sometimes forget it wasnt that long ago that I was with mates from university doing really stupid things, now, I have to behave because I need to plan ahead and make sure I have enough petrol money for the week before payday. I went to my sister's engagement party the other week and got really, really drunk and had a bloody great time. My friend Steven and I got drunk on Rose wine and watched that new Tom Cruise film the other night, we were so drunk it was good! I should do that more often, never too old!

Wow, I've been writing about petrol money and party time drinking when I should have been writing about a film where the alien threat is defeated by Head n Shoulders shampoo, how the hell did I get so off track... oh yeah, Julianne, because she is brilliant, even when fighting giant aliens...

Thanks for making me smile on a lazy Tuesday afternoon Julianne!

You should revisit Evolution.