In spite of its shortcomings, "The Ten" is an inspired and imaginative bellwether for where modern American comic sensibilities lay at the moment. It pushes the envelope in all of the right ways.
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08/02/07
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.
Reviews for The Ten
You really have to be in the mood to get into The Ten's forced goofiness.
08/02/07
Apart from an occasional bright line and amusing throwaway bits of business, the humor here is juvenile and flat...The Ten is at best a five.
08/02/07
The Ten never breaks out of jejune noodling and into something truly provocative.
08/02/07
For Bible-related fun, The Ten is at least a higher power than Evan Almighty.
08/02/07
The success (of each sketch) varies not just according to quality but how tickled you find yourself -- from moment to moment -- by this kind of high-wire comedy.
08/02/07
Anytime you compile a series of vignettes and call it a feature film, you‘re going to have hits and misses. It‘s the nature of the structure.
08/01/07
Lacking a steady hand, this flimsy amalgam of bad jokes is without form and void.
08/01/07
A slightly patchy tapestry that tickles about as much as it annoys, full of unexpected laughs but also some torturous dead spots.
08/01/07
The Ten's biggest letdown are the interstitial sequences featuring Paul Rudd, [who is] usually the best thing about some of the worst movies.
07/31/07
The Ten is, I guess, sacrilegious in the strictest sense of the term, and its interest in investigating the commandments can be skin deep, as they're often used as mere pretext for ribald nonsense.
07/29/07
This anthology promises to be wild and blasphemous, but only three or four episodes are funny or witty (the usual problem with film compilations), but all-star cast, particularly Paul Rudd and Winona Ryder, is good.
07/17/07
Any film that casts Oliver Platt as an Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator and takes the name of Dianne Wiest in vain gets my vote.
05/31/07
One problem: The movie's just not funny.
04/26/07
Many of the films have little to do with the Commandments, and none has anything provocative or profound to say about them.
04/19/07
The Ten, admittedly, is not Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue. [Director] Wain's pieces are just jumping-off points for screwball improv and inspired throwaways.
04/05/07
The product of restless comic imaginations that would rather bounce to the next idea than milk the previous one for every drop. Some viewers may be exhausted by the barrage, but few will complain of not getting their money's worth.
04/03/07
Top CriticLet's talk about Paul Rudd. I think he may be in every film in 2007 and that's okay by me, because Paul Rudd has become an acting Man-God.
03/17/07
90 minutes of random, really bad sketch comedy.
03/11/07
I discovered a solid handful of worthwhile chuckles in the flick, most of which came from the smoothly reliable Paul Rudd and the still-adorable Winona Ryder.
01/26/07
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