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Ten, The
THINKFilm
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for dialogue, nudity, and for language and some drug material
Starring
Jessica Alba,
Adam Brody,
Bobby Cannavale,
Paul Rudd,
Famke Janssen,
Justin Theroux,
Gretchen Mol,
and
Winona Ryder
The Ten is comprised of ten blasphemous and hysterical stories inspired by the Biblical Commandments, each told in a different style, but with characters and themes that overlap. The film is held together by a narrator who, in turn, has his own moral problems. (THINKFilm)
GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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WRITTEN BY: |
Ken Marino
David Wain
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DIRECTED BY: |
David Wain
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RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 15, 2008
Theatrical: August 3, 2007
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RUNNING TIME: |
93 minutes, Color |
ORIGIN: |
USA |
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83
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Devious and inspired enough to juice you past any weak spots. Thou shalt be amused.
75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
The early, explosively funny skits and a loose, engagingly adventurous spirit are enough to ensure this uneven but often delightful project the cult fame that accompanies pretty much everything associated with Stella mainstay Wain.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Pam Grady
Fundamentalists might take umbrage, but The Ten is not so much blasphemous as it is very silly, and it lives up to the one unbendable commandment of comedy: It's funny.
70
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Wain and Marino try to tie all this together with a framing narrative about an unfaithful husband (Paul Rudd), which turns into a clever parody of Woody Allen movies.
70
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Second feature from duo David Wain and Ken Marino of comedy group the State is, like their "Wet Hot American Summer," uneven but often hilarious.
70
Village Voice
Robert Wilonsky
More often than not, you'll laugh, and that's all you can hope for in what might as well be a prolonged episode of "The State," from which several of the cast and creators sprang.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Gretchen Mol stars as a 35-year-old virgin deflowered in lusty romance-novel fashion on a trip to Mexico. Her hunky lover-boy's name? Jesus Christ (played by Justin Theroux). The segment? "Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain."
60
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
An uneven, sophomoric and only fitfully funny omnibus of skits, The Ten is one of those silly-on-purpose ensemble exercises that must have been wildly fun to make.
60
Film Threat
Mark Bell
Let's talk about Paul Rudd. I think he may be in every film in 2007 and that's okay by me, because Paul Rudd has become an acting Man-God.
50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
There are lengthy stretches during this movie when it's deadly dull. This is the kind of film that's ideal for DVD viewing. Judicious use of the fast forward button will greatly increase The Ten's appeal.
50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
As sketch comedy, The Ten often is imaginative and sometimes hilarious...Still, like precursors from "The Groove Tube" to "Jackass," it doesn't make for much of a movie.
50
Premiere
Aaron Hillis
The Ten has one foot in "Monty Python's Meaning of Life" and another in their "Life of Brian," but ultimately we get the David Letterman School of Comedy: mediocre jokes continually repeated until they sometimes become uncomfortably funny.
50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
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.
50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The funniest and arguably most envelope-pushing episode stars Winona Ryder as a newlywed who falls in love on her honeymoon - and steals the object of her lust: a ventriloquist's dummy.
50
The New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
A “Decalogue” for special-ed students, The Ten leans too often toward the bizarre and the bewildering. And though rough sex is a recurring motif, the movie’s overall tone is less blasphemous than raunchy.
50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
By flaunting its own stupidity, The Ten practically dares you not to laugh at it, like a stand-up comic who sells an unfunny joke through the ferocity of his delivery.
42
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Yet another witless, listless outing by the alleged comic minds behind such dubious treats as "The State," "Stella" and "Wet Hot American Summer."
40
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
David Wain, director of "Wet Hot American Summer," brings his popular brand of surrealist yet mundane humor to the big screen with more or less dreadful results.
38
Chicago Tribune
Tasha Robinson
The Ten changes tone every few minutes, ranging from lowbrow gross-out gags to elevated language to a big, sloppy musical number.
30
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
The Ten offers a brand of comedy for very particularized tastes, though everyone should appreciate the in-joke of featuring Ryder in the skit about the Eighth Commandment. For those of you less versed in the Bible, that’s the one that says thou shall not steal.
25
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Everyone involved seems to have been operating from the presumption that gross and blasphemous equals hilarious. Would that it did.
25
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The Ten is a virtually snicker-free exercise in audience pain. It's less a movie than an endurance test.
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