My mom thinks it’s weird that I love this movie but this was the last movie I saw with my uncle before he passed unexpectedly and it’ll always be special to me. Glad to see it covered on this channel, something I wasn’t expecting to see when I got up this morning

My dad got to be an extra in this one! He was originally supposed to be one of the governor's secret service but Dan Aykroyd brought his own guys. He ended up being one of the sheriffs during the big monster climax instead cause he already did service and wasn't impressed with getting to hold a gun as a military extra.

I unironically love that movie. The original finale was going to have a creature that was passed the human stage of evolution. The Director felt like it was not epic enough for a finale. also this movie was originally designed to be a serious sci-fi thriller. that is why the science is so well thought out. good movie. Enjoyed it.

"You could hear about it all day and still not grasp how large an area it is" In one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books they used forcing you to grasp how big the universe actually is as a form of capitol punishment.

Man, I was obsessed with this movie as a kid. I always found how they portrayed the evolution absolutely fascinating, and I guess it's one reason why I really enjoy learning about biology.

Looking at the first stage of the cavern, those weird "fungi-like" things are pretty clear references to stromatolites, which makes sense, given that those are formed by cyanobacteria, the oldest known form of multicellular life.

This movie, Eight Legged Freaks, and Tremors were my go Monster movies when I was a kid. Awesome work as always.

I remember watching this as a kid. Since I knew my Dad was a chemical engineer I was always a bit curious about chemistry, and this movie sparked a keener interest in chemistry and how it related to biology. I loved this one a lot, and was surprised/happy to see you cover it! Writing this comment actually made me think about a show that came out during my highschool years which really made me tempted to go into virology & infectious diseases. It was called "ReGenesis", a Canadian show that ran from 2004-2008! It's one you might enjoy.

What not many people know is that there was an animated series based off of this! It was called Alienators: Evolution Continues (or just Evolution: The Animated Series), and the main villain was called Scopes (as in the Scopes Monkey Trial).

Finaly! Evolution I waited for soooo long, thank you

I'm glad that for alot of other people this was our "childhood" movie. I loved this movie and watched it constantly. One of the things that made me fascinated with biology

this movie is such an underated gem, the cgi and costumes were amazing, the comedy was hilarious, the best sci-fi comedy i ever saw

This movie brings back memories, I remember having it on a VHS and the part with the monkey like humanoids scared the shit out of me as a kid lmao

I remember seeing this movie when it came out, I was 8 or 9, and thinking "haha funny alien movie" Fastforward 20 years and I'm showing this film to my spouse, going back into it with the same mentality. Afterward, we discuss the comedy and the science of the movie. Ah, age and knowledge allowing me to enjoy a film in multiple ways after two decades.

This was actually pretty fun. I liked the alien organisms, and how they seemed to adapt to their environment.

I always wondered if any of the fragments that separated from the meteor survived the landing in another area without being noticed.

12:00 - in the movie Sean William Scott's character says they chased the animal into a sandbar on the golf course and it choked out there while in our atmosphere, you can see it's an amphibious creature as well in the scene so he didn't't need to get it from the water :)

if you ever get the chance could you do a breakdown of the biology of the aliens from the criminally underrated British Sci-Fi film "Attack the Block," as they are rather interesting creatures.

God, this was like my favorite movie growing up. My mum loved it, so we watched it all the time, and I always loved all the cool creatures we got to see despite my little child brain not fully understanding what was happening. I still say "kaka kaka, tookie tookie" to this day. Kinda forgot about this movie after a while, but I'm so glad to see it get some much deserved love again!

9:48 As an Electrician I feel both attacked and embarrassed by the fact of how true that statement is...

I remember seeing this movie in like the 7th grade one day in biology and still think it's one of the best movies I've ever seen

Bloody loved this movie as a kid. Absolute classic lol. Its decently funny and the premise is awesome. The fact the head and shoulders commercial feels more like a bit is brilliant lol. Cool creature feature, with surprisingly good scifi science and fun shenanigans. Just a good bloody movie.

So, fast evolution apparently means: 1) does not require interactions with environment to decide benefitial mutations, but instead immediately skips to superuseful weapons, wings, etc. 2) Can create body mass from nothing, without energy or materia.

A surprisingly well thought out movie. Thank you for the breakdown and explaining how it’s evolutionary track can take place being nitrogen based. That kind of threw me for a loop considering our nitrogen is inert. Hell of a video!

Wow, this is a surprise. Two days after rewatching this childhood classic (At least for me), I find this? Neat.

I remember having a good time at the movies watching this as a kid and I appreciate it more now that time has passed because of its quality and the actual science of it all. I was waiting for this video so thank you for finally doing it.

This is one of my family’s core movies, like no one can be a part of the family unless they’ve seen this and a number of other films. I honestly never dreamed it would be covered on this channel.

This brings back memories. Speaking of the Head and Shoulders angle, they were actually running a promo with this movie where if you sent off to H&S you could get a free sample of their new shampoo or whatever, and my older brother wrote off with the most ridiculous name you can think of as a joke...and finally got that sample sent to him, weeks later. Clearly he was thinking three steps ahead of the rest of us. xD

I just wanna say I absolutely love this channel, I've been subscribed for years and the fact you're still pushing out so many videos and have kept the content fresh is absolutely amazing. Thanks man!

This and "Mars attacks!" are amazing, great memories

Have you considered covering anything in the Cthulhu Mythos? You started doing more mystical stuff recently and I've been curious as to your thoughts on some of the movies and games related to it. Suggestions would definitely include Underwater and A Color Out of Space!

I loved this movie! It doesn't get the love I think it deserves, and it kinda hard to find. The scene where they had to go inside Block together the alien bug brought me to tears the first time I saw it. Great cast too. They all really played well off each other.

Anyone remember the cartoon that spun off from this? Loved that cartoon as a kid. And I think the series format really allowed some great exploration on the evolution element as an adult.

I love how the army always decides to blow things up (in movies) without thinking twice about it.

Hey Roanoke, you discussion on lifeforms from an ammonia-based atmosphere kind of reminds me of the Volus from Mass Effect, who do in fact come from a planet that has an ammonia -based atmosphere and is highly pressurized.

Roanoke, I’d just like to say that your videos never fail to cheer me up, and when I’m having a bad day I’ll come back and just binge watch them. Thanks man

Roanoke: We’re just a spec of dust on a bigger spec of dust existing in a dust pile. Me: Man, I’m just enjoying my beer here, don’t need to remind me of how insignificant I am to the universe at large. Come on.

Okay I’m not going to lie, I thought this was a stupid idea for a review but actually this is genius. It allows for the exploration of a species evolution and a non carbon based species at that. Nice work 👍

I remember watching this as a kid. And for a comedy movie that parodies biology and alien life, it's a guilty pleasure, in my opinion.

Loved Orlando Jones in this movie. Bit surprising to see him doing serious dramas and doing well in the roles now.

As fun as that movie can be, the arsenic-selenium knight jump thing always bothered me. David Duchovny says "arsenic is our poison", and I was always sitting there thinking "dude, we have tons of poisons. A big portion of the periodic table is totally lethal to humans."

This was the movie that made me get into science. The idea of watching evolution play out in front of your eyes just amazed me. Plus it had Orlando Jones in it, i always enjoyed his movies.

Fun fact, while the ladder technique works, you can also carry a clipboard with papers and as long as you act like you're checking things, no one will question it.

I really liked this movie when I was a kid, as an adult it's ok. I feel like someone at the studio was like "Someone should make Ghostbusters but with aliens." and then they did.

My man, coming in clutch with Evolution. I loved this movie and the cartoon growing up. Always wished there was more.

Sadly, this movie understands evolution more than most sci-fi movies.

Have you ever considered the biology of the monster form the 2016 movie literally named "The Monster"? That would be an interesting thing, but I don't know if there's enough information out there for you to work anything from it. Either way, I've been watching a lot of your videos and they're all awesome! Keep up the wicked work, dude!

This is one of those movies that I love, but I somehow forget it exists until someone brings it up again.

Scary movie 4, and now Evolution. Really taking me back , Roanoke.

I love the fact u threw in "The Wilhelm scream" during the NORDvpn ad read. It was classic

@ Roenoke Gaming. Biomedical scientist here so I have a fairly limited genomics knowledge but, if the organism has ten base pairs as you say at the start of the video rather than the usual 4, this would surely increase the chances of mutations almost exponentially? Also, the other cellular and molecular differences in an organism with ten base pairs in its DNA would be interesting to say the least. I'm not a proteomics expert but the protein possibilities, and ergo intracellular pathways etc, would be worth an entire video itself. Awesome video as always by the way! I admire the way you dissect what is going on in classics like this with so much grounded scientific analysis. Kudos.

What would be the chance of "The big overlords" "nerfing"this video?

Love this movie. Our science teacher was inspired to use this to teach us non-Darwinian evolution theories❤ Nothing like watching a movie and getting visible examples of what our lessons are trying to explain🤯

To me this is one of those hidden gems of comedy. Not that many people know it but everybody i talks to loves it

This is literally one of my favorite movies ever, epic of you to cover it Edit: giggling at this as a kid because ha ha funny joke and then going for a biology degree and realizing, not only did someone do their homework here, but the science is actually sort of sound is just 👌

YES! been looking forward to this one! always loved this movie and its only been enhanced knowing the science of it actually works. kinda weird how comedies seem to be more accurate than serious projects, like how actual medical doctors cite freaking Scrubs as the most accurate medical show and My Cousin Vinny and Liar Liar were actually legally accurate. "You did so good! Do you want want anything?" "Ice Cream. I want some ice cream" "What flavor?" "Doesn't matter. its for my ass" has me pissing myself every time

Out of curiosity, what's stopping you from covering the alien movies? Is it copyright issues or just the sheer amount of movies? I would love for you to cover alien ngl

Always looking forward to seeing you post, if you ever get a chance I'd love to see a breakdown of the sea creatures from underwater (2020)

I knew i wasn't tripping. I saw this on HBO back when i was really young and we had cable. Feels like an unexpected reunion

This was a fun video. Love your work Roanoke, please keep 'em coming.

Hands down one of the great movies from my childhood.

I spent years trying to recall the name of this movie. At one point I thought I dreamt it up, but I swore that I remembered a movie where they used head and shoulders to kill an alien. Thank you!

This movie RULES. So many awesome one liners. Stoked you covered it!

Any chance of a video on the Quarians from Mass Effect?

I've been looking forward to this movie getting the Roanoke treatment. Also this is my go to sci-fi comedy.

I've always loved the speculative biology in Evolution, even as a kid. I really wanna see Annihilation covered sometime, the concept of 'Earth getting cancer' is so interesting

I literally just watch this movie two days ago and was like, I'd love to see you do this. Then to my surprise you came through for me thank you!

I don't know if you'd be willing to take a look at a manga, but I'd love to see your perspective on what lucky genetic dice would have to be rolled for Guts from Berserk to do half the shit he does (Obviously restricted to the Golden Age Arc and excluding anything after the Eclipse because of supernatural BS)

This was one of the those bad movies that stuck with my child hood, it’s like a fever dream from 2004 that never left me, glad to see it covered.

This is one of my favorite movies. It had no real visibility when released. Ended up being one of those movies that you find ...

I am so damn pumped everytime Roanoke has a new video or tales. Biology is absolutely fascinating

I loved this movie as a kid man! (even though it used to give me nightmares lol) Thanks for covering it!

Been waiting for this one. Let's shampoo us some aliens

as an Arizonian who lived there during the 97 Phoenix Lights event I truly appreciated this crazy movie lol

The way that you put it; the proto colony evolving an animal branch that it supports with its atmosphere producing flora makes me think of a really cool evolution based rts

Saw this movie sooooo long ago as a kid, it was AWESOME!!

Great movie, one of my all time favorites. Too bad you haven't covered any 40k stuff in a long time. The orks are particularly fun since they're technically sapient fungi. Their spores also terraform whatever environment they end up on to provide food and support for the ork boyz.

I can not begin to describe my excitement at seeing you cover this underrated classic!

Evolution is absolutely one of my favorite movies of all time. I was wondering if/when you'd cover it.

I know this video is old but I just found this channel. When he talks about "just look like you belong" when sneaking in somewhere, it reminds me of when my father once got into a Target on Black Friday before they opened because he wore a red button up and just walked in. He went to the toy aisle and moved some limited edition Star Wars toy he wanted from that aisle to like, the furniture aisle and hid it behind a bunch of stuff so he could come back and get it later.

Love this movie hopefully we will get a remake someday with the same cast

as a kid it always made me sad when this movie ended because I found all these new creatures evolving from scratch into new things so fascinating that I always thought the movie was too short because it left me wanting to see more about the creatures but it all ended always too quickly for me :c specially when they reach the primate stage, I wanted to keep learning about what they would be able to do next and what would happen when they reached human level, but then they died u.u maybe I could ignore the ending of this movie and connect the moment the primates break out from the caves in Evolution with the moment apes break out in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and have a full new movie

This is a unique thing, as the cartoon Alienators: Evolution Continues, is a continuation of this movie. There may be more information to take from to get a clearer picture, and possibly add additional info. Plus i recall one episode of the aliens being immune to Selenium itself because it was a Mutant strain affected by exposure to Nacho Cheese. They were stopped by a mix of Selenium and Nacho Cheese. Could we have a revisit to see if the science from the movie changed or actually stayed the same in the cartoon?

Yeah I remember watching this as a kid, I think there also was an animated series based on it. Truly certified early 2000s moment

YO I FUCKIN LOVED THIS MOVIE!!

Love this movie. Its crazy how accurate the science was in a comedy

I have to share this, one of the actors for the Head and Shoulders duo is a youtuber now his channel is called RaiderCentral. I was shook when I found him over a decade after seeing this.

Honestly, I hope Roanoke is one of the FIRST people the government calls if we ever get invaded by an alien species.

Wait, wouldn't there be other isolated cases of these creatures happening in other areas of that Earth or did the other asteroids disintegrate while falling through Earths' atmosphere? That's something I've always wondered about because when we see the rock (I forgot what it's classification would be, sorry) breaks apart, there are a few sizable chunks hurling towards Earth, so maybe the TV show of this movie (yes it got its own TV show) wasn't as far off as some may expect. Also, side note, these things in the TV show developed an immunity too- . . shoot, forgot the name of the chemical in Head-N-Shoulders, um, that chemical and like any other 1990s-early 2000s cartoons, the crew had too kill these things with lasers and such.

I never thought I'd see the day! Yes! This is going to be a damn good one!

I’ve been waiting for this one! In so many of these videos the biology is really, REALLY speculative due to how little information is provided, so I’ve been looking forward to hearing him talk about Evolution.

I love this movie cause it was made in my hometown of Page Arizona! I've hiked where the giant alien is before! The local community college is actually called Coconino Community College, while the scenes don't actually show the real college, its a lot smaller. The ending scenes took place on the playground of Lake View Primary School, and the caves they go through are actually there and house thousands of bats during their migrations every year. This movie is so cool to me, especially since every once in a while they show off Lake Powell in the background. However, we most definitely do not have a Mall, so guess its some fictional extra large Page Az. The very last scene of the dragon flying through what we call "The Cut" is really cool to me. As for the breakdown, I'd have never considered ammonia to be an analogous fill in for water for life. Its an interesting take. Guess its up there with the ideas of Silicone-based life, but at least the ammonia one has some real processes on Earth that we can prove happen in nature for metabolic pathways.

The most unrealistic part of this movie is a scientist being fired for a vaccine causing serious side effects.

0:04 pubescent Roanoke confirmed

I remember watching this when I was young, but it was so obscure for me that I started to believe it was my imagination. Thanks for showing me that I'm not crazy! Also love these vids!

Man, Roanoke has been pumping out a bunch of kino content recently, it gives me dopamine listening to him rag on Aliens.

Huh so tactical nuking aliens is a good thing that’s sucks for the aliens

I'm pretty sure the head and shoulders commercial is basically saying that those 3 characters were paid for doing an ad for head and shoulders because they used it to kill the aliens

I used to watch this as a kid, and there's two things I remember the most. First, I was scared of the ape thing lol. Second, it bothered me how they called the flying thing in the mall a "bird" when it's clearly a straight up dragon.

I’ve always loved this movie, it’s so silly and wild, but also a little intriguing with the questions it raises.