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The Ten [HD DVD] HD DVD

R (Restricted) :: City Lights Home Entertainment :: Released: 2008-01-15

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The Ten [HD DVD] Summary "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 (femke 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 Parady. 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

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

Techincal Details Cast: Paul Rudd, Adam Brody, Rob Cordry, Famke Janssen
Director: David Wain
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Running Time: 96 mins
UPC: 897246001430
Binding: HD DVD
Studio: City Lights Home Entertainment
Release Date: 2008-01-15
Region Code: 0
Specs: NTSC, Widescreen

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