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The Ten (2007)

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Reviews Counted:79

Fresh:30

Rotten:49

Average Rating:5.2/10

Consensus: Although a few of the sketches that make up The Ten are humorous, the uneven and random tone of the film cause it to fall apart.

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: With its gleeful hash of the sacred and the profane, THE TEN is a hilarious comedy that takes liberties with the Bible's Ten Commandments. After the cult success of WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and THE... With its gleeful hash of the sacred and the profane, THE TEN is a hilarious comedy that takes liberties with the Bible's Ten Commandments. After the cult success of WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and THE STATE, David Wain and Ken Marino reteam with a few familiar faces--as well as some new additions--to poke fun at the Old Testament tenets with 10 stories. Jeff Reigert (Paul Rudd, KNOCKED UP) introduces these 10 chapters, as he also confronts his own issues with adultery. He has the difficult task of choosing between his wife played by Famke Janssen (X-MEN: THE LAST STAND) and his mistress played by Jessica Alba (FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER). Meanwhile, each of the stories tackles the Bible's rules from Thou shalt not have no other gods before me to Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, with equal parts wit and weirdness. From the buttoned-up librarian (Gretchen Mol, THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE) who falls for a Mexican carpenter named Jesus to a doctor (Marino, DIGGERS) who sees his murder of a patient as a joke, these aren't the Sunday school takes on the Biblical rules. Instead, Wain, Marino, and their star-studded cast treat the normally serious topics such as murder and adultery with their irreverent and politically incorrect brand of humor. .Just like WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and the short-lived series STELLA, THE TEN is full of random laughs sure to please fans of the writers' previous fare. [More]

Starring: Paul Rudd, Ken Marino, Jessica Alba, Winona Ryder

Starring: Paul Rudd, Ken Marino, Jessica Alba, Winona Ryder, Adam Brody, Gretchen Mol, Famke Janssen, Rob Corddry, Liev Schreiber, Oliver Platt, Justin Theroux, Bobby Cannavale, Kerri Kenney-Silver, A.D. Miles, Ron Silver, Mather Zickel, Zak Orth

Director: David Wain

Director: David Wain
Screenwriter: Ken Marino, David Wain
Producer: Jonathan Stern, Ken Marino, David Wain, Paul Rudd, Morris S. Levy
Composer: Craig Wedren
Studio: ThinkFilm

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Mike Scott

The beyond-goofy collection of Commandment-inspired vignettes has funny moments, but it's a wildly uneven anthology, with three or four clunkers for every genuine chuckle.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 24 2009 06:52 AM

Times-Picayune

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 29 2009 03:15 AM

Urban Cinefile

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Tom Meek

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 23 2009 03:16 AM

Boston Phoenix

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2/4

Rossiter Drake

Rudd, whose wry deadpan proved indispensable in Judd Apatow comedies like 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up,' is used here mostly as a straight man, the host in charge of introducing stories that drift along without any real destination.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 22 2008 11:26 PM

San Francisco Examiner

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Mark Bourne

...brings to mind the fondly remembered Kentucky Fried Movie/Amazon Women on the Moon anthos from the '70s and '80s.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 15 2008 06:51 PM

Film.com

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1/4

Kam Williams

A blasphemous parody so painful to sit through it seems designed by the Almighty as punishment for heathens and sinners.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 11 2008 06:52 AM

NewsBlaze

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2.5/5

Josh Bell

Most of the segments are as clueless about their designated commandment as they are about what's supposed to be funny.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 22 2007 05:46 PM

Las Vegas Weekly

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2.5/4

Sean Means

Some bits... are shockingly funny. Others, like the surgeon who causes a woman's death "as a goof," are just shocking without the funny.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 14 2007 08:39 AM

Salt Lake Tribune

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2/4

Jeff Vice

Three of the comic segments in The Ten are sort of funny. Three others are just so-so. And the remaining four are just dumb, painfully unfunny and/or downright crude.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 13 2007 06:48 PM

Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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6/10

Tim Brayton

The Ten is, while not "bad," nor "unfunny," surely not as good as it had ought to be.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 12 2007 03:47 PM

Antagony & Ecstasy

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73/100

Philip Martin

One guesses the talent that signed up for this negligible movie did so out of good will for Wain and Marino. Or maybe they all did it ... as a goof.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 08 2007 05:54 AM

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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2.5/4

Rob Thomas

we leave the theater feeling like we've just been at a church service that went on a little too long.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 06 2007 08:22 AM

Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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1/5

Scott Craven

Those worried about incurring God's wrath by seeing The Ten, don't concern yourselves -- by watching the film, you've suffered enough.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 30 2007 12:55 PM

Arizona Republic

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 25 2007 03:42 AM

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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1.5/5

Steve Davis

If you’re looking for ha-ha funny, then The Ten is probably not for you -- you’ll be more likely scratching your head in befuddled wonderment.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 25 2007 03:42 AM

Austin Chronicle

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2/4

John Beifuss

Any of the film's concepts would be pretty funny in a tossed-off 'Saturday Night Live' skit, but presenting these absurdist ideas in the context of an impeccably produced albeit low-budget motion picture somehow sucks the comic air from the room.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 24 2007 11:24 AM

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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3.5/5

Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone

Yeah we liked this movie (with our self-proclaimed warped senses of humor), but we KNOW it's not for everyone, so thou shalt not blame us if you don't enjoy it as much as we did.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 23 2007 11:07 PM

TheMovieChicks.com

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2/5

Roger Moore

Thou shalt be funny. Thou, in this case, isn't.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 23 2007 12:24 PM

Orlando Sentinel

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2.5/4

Phil Villarreal

Wain is a big fan of offbeat, exaggerated humor that either hits so big you think he's a genius or misses so badly you wonder whether he's sane.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 23 2007 07:52 AM

Arizona Daily Star

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3.5/5

Jason Ferguson

As ridiculous as it is uproariously funny.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 23 2007 03:15 AM

Orlando Weekly

 
 
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