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The Ten (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 81
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 51

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.

35

Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 17

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.

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Much of the group responsible for MTV's The State -- including director/actor David Wain and performers Ken Marino, Kerri Kenney-Silver, and Joe Lo Truglio -- reunite for this outrageous, irreverent, and raunchy sketch comedy, which skewers the Ten Commandments. In the framing sequences, comedian Paul Rudd (who collaborated with much of the cast on Wet Hot American Summer and The Baxter) stands on a black stage with giant Biblical tablets projected behind him and promises to deliver ten

R, 1 hr. 39 min.

Comedy

Ken Marino, David Wain

Jan 15, 2008

$0.5M

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Critic Reviews for The Ten

All Critics (84) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (53) | DVD (9)

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

January 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comment
Mark Bourne
Film.com
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Those worried about incurring God's wrath by seeing The Ten, don't concern yourselves -- by watching the film, you've suffered enough.

August 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | Comment
Scott Craven
Arizona Republic
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Thou shalt be funny. Thou, in this case, isn't.

August 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
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Perhaps the Bible needs an 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore. That might stem misfires such as The Ten.

August 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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If there were Ten Commandments for filmmaking, one would certainly be: Thou shalt not pass off sketch comedy as a feature film, especially when charging $9 a ticket.

August 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
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The Ten is nowhere near a 10. Let's call it a six.

August 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comment
Tom Long
Detroit News
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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.

July 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Times-Picayune | Comment
Mike Scott
Times-Picayune

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.

April 22, 2008 Comment
Rossiter Drake
San Francisco Examiner

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

January 11, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

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

January 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Mount Desert Islander | Comment
Kam Williams
Mount Desert Islander

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

September 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly | Comment
Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly Source: 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.

September 14, 2007 Comment
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.

September 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comment
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.

September 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
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.

September 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Comment
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.

September 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | Comment
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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.

August 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
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.

August 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | Comment
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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Actually quite funny. Reminds me of a Woody Allen mixed with Monty Python and Apatow. A general surprise.

December 9, 2008
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Cast: Paul Rudd, Winona Ryder, Jessica Alba, Ken Marino, Famke Janssen, Rob Corddry, Adam Brody, Gretchen Mol, Oliver Platt, Liev Schreiber Director: David Wain Summary: An all-star cast (including Paul Rudd, Winona Ryder, Jessica Alba, Oliver Platt, Liev Schreiber, Famke Janssen, Rob Corddry and Gretchen Mol, among

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