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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.

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: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
08/04/07
Hollywood.com

The Ten may be the funniest movie of the year. It's so earnest, they follow the most ridiculous threads to the logical extreme. All of the characters are completely committed to the reality of the film.

Full Review Source: Can Magazine | comment Comment
08/04/07
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
Can Magazine

Everyone involved seems to have been operating from the presumption that gross and blasphemous equals hilarious. Would that it did.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/03/07
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A lame and irritating comedy that is an endurance test to sit through.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
08/03/07
Tom Keogh
Tom Keogh
Seattle Times

Not so much blasphemous as it is very silly, and it lives up to the one unbendable commandment of comedy: It's funny.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
08/03/07
Pam Grady
Pam Grady
San Francisco Chronicle

A resoundingly mediocre film that commits the cardinal sin of tedium.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
08/03/07
Timothy Knight
Timothy Knight
Reel.com

It's more a frivolous spoof than a pointed satire.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
08/03/07
Lisa Rose
Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger
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Multi-segment movies tend to be notoriously uneven, and this definitely proves to be the case with The Ten.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
08/03/07
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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The Ten is so proud of its own wit and irreverence that when you fail to be equally impressed, you are likely to wonder if your own sense of humor is, in some way, deficient. Rest assured it is not.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
08/03/07
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

Too often, The Ten is simply not funny enough, stretched thin by ideas played out too long.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
08/03/07
Annlee Ellingson
Annlee Ellingson
Boxoffice Magazine

Darkly satiric.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
08/03/07
Andrea Gronvall
Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader

...never fully takes advantage of its biblical premise.

Full Review Source: Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | comment Comment
08/03/07
Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

This is one of those films where the humor is of the hit-and-miss variety, and it misses more often than it hits. The jokes are transparent. It's not difficult to divine what's supposed to be funny.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
08/03/07
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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A Decalogue for special-ed students, The Ten leans too often toward the bizarre and the bewildering.

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08/03/07
Jeannette Catsoulis
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
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Despite many giddy moments, the conceit becomes gradually more exhausting, until somewhere around the seventh commandment you're ready to choose God's wrath over any more overproduced, A-list-acted throwaway TV sketches.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
08/02/07
Carina Chocano
Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
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a foul-mouthed, dirty-as-diapers, Republican-baiting retelling of the Ten Commandments

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
08/02/07
Chris Cabin
Chris Cabin
Filmcritic.com

Where Kieslowski's work always had a goal and a sense for how real people think, nothing about The Ten suggests that the filmmakers ever thought any further than the next meager, uncomfortable titter.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
08/02/07
Tasha Robinson
Tasha Robinson
Chicago Tribune

The film is far from a perfect 10, with hit-and-miss writing, an over-reliance on cheap shocks and solid laughs in maybe five of the sketches. Given their brief running time, the weaker efforts are off the screen in short order.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
08/02/07
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

It doesn't make for much of a movie.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
08/02/07
Bill White
Bill White
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Like the comic masterpieces of [Woody] Allen's '70s heyday, the first five short films represent a brilliant, laugh-out-loud combination of grad-school braininess and vaudeville goofiness, highbrow absurdity and lowbrow shtick.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
08/02/07
Nathan Rabin
Nathan Rabin
AV Club
 
 
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