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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Ten EAN: 0897246001171 Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen Label: City Lights Manufacturer: City Lights Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: City Lights Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 15, 2008 Running Time: 96 minutes Studio: City Lights Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Sales Rank: 11998 MPN: WEAD600117D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: No one will mistake Jeff Reigert (Paul Rudd) for Moses or even Charlton Heston, but they all have something in common. Like Moses and Heston, Jeff's job is to introduce the world to the Ten Commandments. But, in David Wain's loopy comedy The Ten, he is not exactly the picture of virtue...In fact, surrounded as he is by gigantic replicas of the famous stone tablets, the genial host to this special presentation is so busy juggling wife Gretchen (Famke Janssen) and girlfriend (Jessica Alba) that he can barely get through a single commandment without breaking one himself. But that venality is part of the charm of this amiable, outrageous and frequently hilarious biblical parody. Wain and Marino use the commandments as an excuse to indulge in ridiculous, often surreal and sometimes tasteless humor... it lives up to the one unbendable commandment of comedy: It's funny. - Pam Grady, San Francisco Chronicle Amazon.com: It's inevitable that a director with a sketch-comedy background, like The State's David Wain, would make a movie comprised of sketches. Written with his Wet Hot American Summer collaborator Ken Marino, The Ten brings the Big Man's commandments to life via 10 mini-movies or "stories," as host Paul Rudd calls them. (Rudd is joined by Famke Janssen, as his wife, and Jessica Alba, as his girlfriend.) The narratives rarely play out in a predictable manner, but laughs are in surprisingly short supply (possibly because each runs a few beats longer than necessary). Still, it's fun to see so many actors cast against type. In "Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of the Lord Thy God in Vain," Gretchen Mol's 35-year-old virgin falls for Justin Theroux's Mexican carpenter, while in "Thou Shalt Not Steal," Winona Ryder's newlywed falls for a ventriloquist's dummy--and runs off with the little wooden man. Unlike Krysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue, the acclaimed dramatic series inspired by the same source material, Wain and Marino have no trenchant observations to offer about modern morality. Their aim is to amuse. If that means references to prison rape ("Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Wife" with Marino and The Daily Show's Rob Corddry) and loose bowels (Aaron Augenblick's "Lying Rhino," the only animated vignette), so be it. As a reinvention of retro sketch fests, like Kentucky Fried Movie, The Ten falls short, but it's worth a look for the cast, which includes Liev Schreiber, Adam Brody, and Oliver Platt. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Surprisingly Bad!I must agree with another poster... I rarely bother to post, but this one was so disappointing that I feel obliged to give fair warning to others. I originally picked this up for a few dollars somewhere because I couldn't BELIEVE that I hadn't even HEARD of this movie with all of these great actors and actresses in it! It ought to be HILARIOUS! Then I watched it and found out WHY. I'm not saying that it doesn't have a single funny moment in it. Almost any comedy, no matter ... Read More Rating: - He who watches breaks all tenThe irreverent handling of The Commandments by this writer and cast is simply blasphemy. If you believe in the Lord who gave us these laws, I strongly warn you to pass over this glorification of sin. Also, it was not humorous, romantic, inspiring, etc.; it fails on all levels. Rating:  - Waste of a talented castI rented this movie mainly because of the talented cast, including Winona Ryer, Paul Rudd, Liev Schriber, Janeane Garofalo, Ron Silver, Famke Jansen, Gretchen Mol, Jessica Alba, and Oliver Platt. What were these actors thinking being in this mediocre "comedy"? They deserve a better movie. The film seems to be impressed with how "wacky" it is. Ha, ha. Instead, it's just silly and stupid. We have two black 20 year olds born to a white couple who wonder about their paternity. The mother ... Read More Rating: - Smarmy and painfully unfunnyI normally am not moved to type out a review of a movie, but after having watched the first 15 or so minutes of this P.O.S., I felt compelled to render an opinion. I don't think I've seen a movie that went to such lengths to hit its audience over the head with how witty it was, when in fact it really wasn't at all humorous or clever. Whoever was responsible for how this thing turned out (the writers? the director?) should think twice about pursuing a career in film-making. Rating:  - This is the funniest movie I've ever seen.If you don't think the Ten Commandments could be funny, turn away now. If you think they could, pull up a chair. If you like the hilarious comedy of writer-director David Wain (like the tragically short-lived Stella on Comedy Central), you will most likely laugh till you cry. With an amazingly funny cast that includes the lusciously brilliant Paul Rudd, Winona Ryder, Adam Brody, Ken Marino, Liev Schreiber, Gretchen Mol, Justin Theroux, Oliver Platt, Kerri Kenney- Silver, Jason Sudekis, et cetera... ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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