The Ten

I found more humor in peeling a banana! Awful to say the least! To those that think is was a good film, Please list your top 5 films. Help me understand your style of humor. I kept watching the film hoping it would get better, sorry to report it died...an almost took me with it. I left out of the movies in pain,,,NOT from laughter! The trailer was misleading. Such a waste of time all-around. I cant wait to hear what the actors think of this pile of poop!If you are given free tickets to this movie, please view that gesture as an act of aggression. Please dial 911 and report this person for trying to insult ( Assault ) your intelligence!

(Mild Spoilers) Okay, David Wain's "The Ten" isn't attempting to redefine the genre of sketch comedy or satire, nor does it pass judgement on the religious iconography it uses as a template. It merely cheekily plays with the idea of the commandments in a smutty and more often than not, unique way. What I think the strongest part of this film is, is its pre-occupation with the perverse and how one can play that out on screen. The repetition of the Spanish word for *, Winona Ryder's hysterical relationship with that dummy, Oliver Platt's "Arnie" impression, Liev Schreiber's cat scan machines and the untimely death of hundreds of children, are all irreverent and interesting approaches to the lessons or moral codes of the ten commandments. Whilst some are better executed than others, I particularly appreciated the astute connection between the "Adultery" segment and Woody Allen's films. The use of the stamp jazz soundtrack as the camera moves down a busy New York street, the inclusion of Dianne Weist as a needy wife, and the self-indulgence of our two infidels all really hit the mark. Even their dialogue seems to be mocking Allen's neurotic adulterous characters. Which, as a Woody Allen fan, I really got into. If for anything else, one should give "The Ten" a go for its wonderful utilisation of well- known actors for comedy. They seem to really be holding absolutely nothing back, and that is actually a thrilling experience to watch. Particularly the work of Winona Ryder, whose drive off into the sunset with no hands on her steering wheel, crying and laughing like a lunatic whilst sitting next to her lover, a wooden dummy, got me so giggly I couldn't breathe.

THE TEN (2007) * Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Adam Brody, Winona Ryder, Bobby Cannavale, Famke Janssen, Liev Schreiber, Gretchen Mol, Oliver Platt, Ron Silver, Justin Theroux, Rob Corddry, Kerri Kenney, Ken Marino, A.D. Miles, Janeane Garofalo, Zak Penn, Jason Sudekis. High-concept epic misfire string of vignettes from the alum of the comedy troupe THE STATE and some notable thespians – including Rudd, who acts as presenter for the shenanigans at hand - exploiting The Ten Commandments from one unfunny set up to the next; blasphemously not amusing. Rent HISTORY OF THE WORLD : PART ONE instead. (Dir: David Wain)

Wow, this movie was awful! I am not a cheap man. I would never send back food at a restaurant unless it has poison in it. However the thought did cross my mind (at least TEN times) to walk out of this monstrosity of images and to ask for my money back. The principal of contributing money to this fiasco is what hurts and I will live with this pain for the rest of my life. As "The Ten" went on and on and on and on, I kept telling myself "one of these Ten vignettes must be good. One out of ten is not bad odds, unless you are witnessing "The Ten." I actually went to see it because my girlfriend was craving a film (at the theatre) and I did not want to condone any of the mainstream fluff at the big theatres. Some disturbed soul on this site said they had not seen a movie this good in a long time. Well, whoever said that probably hadn't seen a film since Deuce Bigalow II and before that, Judge Dread (or any other Rob Schneider vehicle). Long story short, forget waisting money. Don't waste your time. Paul Rudd as the narrator is annoying and boring. Jessica Alba manages to come off unattractive because her acting is so bad. Talents like Oliver Platt, Winona Ryder and Liev Schreiber are misused. This nightmare spans about 95 minutes and almost every second was excruciating. If I had to name a redeeming quality it would be seeing Winona Ryder in her bra (which was nice, but not worth it). Don't let my star rating fool you, I would have chosen zero out of ten stars if this site allowed it.

This is no epic film, nor will it ever be considered a classic, but it is just fun. I loved it because it was a film that dared to be different, very different. No film would ever dare tread on the grounds that the ten did. For that the film is worth seeing. The film has its problems but it manages to make up for them with its off-beat humor and its unbelievably strange views on our lives and how the ten commandments fit into them. The funniest scenes were by far the cat scan scene, the Jesus scene and the goof scene, after august 3 you'll know what that means. The humor in this film was unequaled by any film that i saw at the sundance film festival this year. Watch and enjoy this hilarious romp about religion and the thing we'd like to do but can't. On that note I give The Ten ten hilarious parables out of ten.

Before I saw this film I was very skeptical. I wasn't sure if it could hold up to its all-star cast; I was wrong. This film is so funny it rivals the humor of films like: The Forty Year Old Virgin, Anchorman and Knocked-up. This is sure to be the star movie of the summer of 2007. Anyone who appreciates humor *MUST* see this film. Though many people have been saying the jokes run too long, I just saw it and nothing out wore its welcome (maybe they re-cut some of the scenes). There is something for everyone in this film! Just look at the cast for god's sake. The writing is witty, the cast is better then I have ever seen them perform and the film will be quoted for the next five years. Above that, the film is even better then the trailer (something we all agree is very hard to match, watch the trailer its great)

I saw this film at the UCLA Sneak Previews series, which usually has some interesting films on offer. This was truly, without doubt, the worst film I have ever seen - bar none. It has no redeeming features. The stories were uninteresting, the music was boring, the acting was barely OK and the jokes un-funny. The "situations" had amazingly little depth to them - they seemed to be grasping for relevance but failed to get there. As the movie progresses from one uninteresting tale to another, the audience, what was left of them, seemed to be hoping that they would come together, as in Crash, but to no avail. Pure, painful boredom.

If you grew up watching MTV's "The State" and made a cult classic out of "Wet Hot American Summer," then you'll laugh yourself silly during the latest from the same comic troupe. Others probably won't get the humor. "The Ten" is one of those rare vignette comedies, intertwining ten insanely unique and monumentally stupid sketches about the Ten Commandments. There's plenty of the same absurdity, like when two men compete to see who can buy the most CAT-scan machines or a librarian (a fetching Gretchen Mol) loses her virginity to Jesus Christ, and random humor that made their past efforts so uproarious. What other comedy would be so daring to make such obscure jokes of Diane Wiest and Timothy Dalton? However, "The Ten" is far more scatological than some of the group's earlier work and makes "Wet Hot American Summer" seem sweet and wholesome in comparison. They also go ridiculously overboard with gay-themed humor. This troupe likes to play homosexuals in the same way that Monty Python enjoyed dressing in drag as a subversive subtext to their comic styling. While the sketches are hit and miss, it will keep you entertained as the group plumbs the depths of low-brow humor in high-brow ways. Director David Wain spoofs everything from literary chick-flicks to gritty cop and courtroom thrillers as well as emo-indie melodramas, Woody Allen, and redemption-in-prison-weepers. There's even a quote from Shakespeare in the oddest of places. My personal favorite aspect of the film was how dead-seriously Wain directed the segment where Winona Ryder (still adorable and still with all her acting chops) has an illicit affair with a ventriloquist's dummy. The range Ryder displays to make the joke work, as well as the way in which Wain uses the camera and frames the scenes is downright astounding. Even when the humor is faltering, they will have you laughing at how disturbing some of it gets, especially during the emotional prison sketch. Also hilarious is their desperation to create a stupid catch phrase. Take your pick of "go fly a kite," "juicing my pecs," or the destined to be classic "...as a goof." Sure, it falls apart during the last three bits, but it caps off with some hilarious original songs recalling the morals of the stories over the closing credits. Be sure to stay to the very end. I'm still laughing. I wonder if anybody else will.

I spent the entire movie wondering what people were laughing at. Yes, there must have been 30 or 40 people in the theater roaring at almost every scene and change of camera angle. Obviously peoples' senses of humor differ, but this was the most banal attempt at being funny I've seen in a long long time. In the interviews after the screening I learned that the writers were from a group that used to write for an MTV program eons ago, so maybe they have a cult following who laugh at everything they write? Where do set up and payoff come into play here? You had to be amused by the concept of each story to find the energy to laugh at it, because there was nothing funny in the telling. I almost never rate a movie with a 1, but I found absolutely nothing worthwhile about this one.

Greetings again from the darkness. If you are familiar with "Wet Hot American Summer", Stella Shorts and MTV's "The State", you will have some idea what director David Wain has in store for you. Still, given the talent involved, I was amazed at the lack of creativity involved in most of the 10 vignettes loosely based on the Ten Commandments. Even the best ideas fall flat and leave us with only a couple of chuckles. Adam Brody being implanted in the ground after a skydive, Winona Ryder shacking up with a wooden marionette, a doctor's goof that leads to his prison "romances", twin brothers learning of their odd gene pool while embracing Oliver Platt's Ah-nuld impersonation, a perky Jessica Alba, Liev Schreiber's attempts to keep up with the Jones', and Justin Theroux as Jesus H. Christ all had potential for true insight into human nature. Instead we are force fed a few quick hits in the "Reno 911" mold. The ongoing between commandment scenes with Paul Rudd and Famke Jansson could have been classic, and a few scenes with Gretchen Mol will usually save a film. I appreciate the concept but am saddened by the result.