The Ten - Movie Review
The Ten featuring Jessica Alba and several other high-profile celebs was released in a limited theaters this month. The movie which premiered at the Sundance and had traveled the nation from one festival to another is outlines ten stories, each inspired by a different one of the ten commandments.
Joe Williams reviewed the movie this week calling it tasteless and funny, here is his review:
Anthology films are well-suited for attention-deficient audiences. In the 1970s, sketch-comedy films such as “Kentucky Fried Movie” and “The Groove Tube” were a staple of the midnight-movie circuit.
In “The Ten,” director David Wain (”Wet Hot American Summer”) revives that irreverent spirit with a cheeky treatise on the Ten Commandments. The jokes are hit-and-miss, but they’re brazenly inventive and delivered by a star-studded cast.
Paul Rudd plays Jeff Reigert, the smarmy host of the anthology, who introduces the segments while his wife (Famke Janssen) prowls the studio for evidence of his infidelity. Jeff is indeed cheating on his wife, with a bimbo played by Jessica Alba, and his marital breakup becomes the basis for a skit that’s a rude spoof of Woody Allen. But most of the stories veer in absurdly unexpected directions.
A skit about coveting thy neighbor’s possessions features two suburban dads (Liev Schrieber and Joe Lo Truglio) who compete to collect the most CAT-scan machines. A skit about coveting thy neighbor’s wife takes place in a men’s prison, where a sweet-talking convict (Rob Corddry) begs to violate a homicidal-but-handsome doctor (co-writer Ken Marino) who is already spoken for. And a skit about taking the Lord’s name in vain features a librarian from St. Louis (Gretchen Mol) who has a vacation fling with a Mexican handyman named Jesus (Justin Theroux).
Because all of the offenders get punished, “The Ten” is not exactly sacrilegious. It may be tasteless but, in my book, that’s not a sin.
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