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The Ten (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 77

Fresh: 30

Rotten:47

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.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for pervasive strong crude sexual content including dialogue and nudity, and for language and some drug material.

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Aug 3, 2007 Limited

Box Office: $546,961

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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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Tom Meek
Boston Phoenix

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: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
04/22/08
Rossiter Drake
San Francisco Examiner

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

Full Review Source: Film.com | comment Comment
01/15/08
Mark Bourne
Film.com
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A blasphemous parody so painful to sit through it seems designed by the Almighty as punishment for heathens and sinners.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
01/11/08
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

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

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly | comment Comment
09/22/07
Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly

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: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
09/14/07
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

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: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
09/13/07
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
09/12/07
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

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: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
09/08/07
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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

Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | comment Comment
09/06/07
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
08/30/07
Scott Craven
Arizona Republic
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08/25/07
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
08/25/07
Steve Davis
Austin Chronicle

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: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
08/24/07
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
08/23/07
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

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

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
08/23/07
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

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: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
08/23/07
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

As ridiculous as it is uproariously funny.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
08/23/07
Jason Ferguson
Orlando Weekly

There is a fun film in there somewhere, especially for those who know what they're getting into and are willing to just go with it. If you're not bothered by naked men frolicking and jokes about prison rape, then this is the film for you.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
08/22/07
Cindy White
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