Watch: The Ten 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – Quirky interrelated stories. Standing by two tablets, Jeff promises to introduce 10 short stories, each about one of the commandments. A man survives a fall from a plane and his fiancée marries someone else before falling in love with a marionette; a surgeon causes the death of a patient and in prison tries to choose his mate; a woman encounters Jesus in Mexico and later confronts her husband on the Sabbath; twins and their mother reflect on fatherhood; covetous neighbors miss a chance to be heroes; and Jeff’s love triangle with Gretchen and Liz plays out between each story. In the end, all the characters join in singing that it’s all about love..
Plot: Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.
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About 3 commandments worth of comedy
There were some good ideas for the sketches but it seems like the writers couldn’t figure out how to develop them. The result is something you might see at a high school production with a single sight-gag or punchline stretched to fit the allotted time. It’s not that the gag is bad or stupid (though sometime it is) – it’s just that you can’t fill 10 minutes of dead time with one joke.There are a couple of funnier commandments that got more than half a laugh. Winona Ryder is a scream – she of course is in the sketch about the do not steal commandment. (See how clever that is – this movie is full of them…) Unfortunately, the funnier sketches are at the end of the movie and you have to sit through an hour to get there.
This reminds me a lot of SNL – the current incarnation – not the “classic” incarnations. If you watch SNL you’ll probably like this. If you find SNL an interminable bore, like I do – then avoid…
I hope the folks who made this amused themselves because they’re about the only ones.
The Ten is supposed to be a series of comedy sketches based on the Ten Commandments. I use “supposed to be” because it has two sketches on “Thou Shalt Not Covet” but none on “Thou Shalt Make No Graven Images”, and the two sketches on “Thou Shalt Not Covet” really aren’t about coveting. That kind of lackadaisical approach defines this movie. It’s occasionally funny, but most of the humor falls flat and a good bit of the rest is inside jokes that may have amused the cast and crew but leave the audience out of the loop.Paul Rudd plays the character who introduces each of the sketches while we see little snippets of his unhappy personal life acted out like some sort of abstract off-Broadway play. This is another example of how the purpose and intent of The Ten’s comedy is hard to fathom. Why is this character introducing these stories? No explanation. Why are we seeing parts of his life in between the sketches? No reason. Clearly, somebody involved in making The Ten laughed at this stuff. I have no idea why. Having Hollywood Megastar Paul Rudd introduce these stories as court-ordered community service would seem to have been much more fertile ground for amusement.
There’s another sketch all about prison rape, which is theoretically about “Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Wife”, where they just talk about prison rape and the punch line is a guy getting raped. It’s the sort of thing enjoyed by jaded stand up comics who are bitter about the mainstream success of others, so they revel in material that doesn’t connect with the general audience, specifically because most people don’t laugh at it.
Now, The Ten isn’t totally without a chuckle or two. Watching the lovely Winona Ryder play tonsil hockey with a ventriloquist dummy is something to see. Jesus Christ returning to Earth to whittle wooden legs for Mexican rickshaw drivers is fairly clever. The opening sketch about a skydiver with no parachute embedding himself in the ground is hilarious if you’ve ever seen that episode of Homicide: Life on the Street where Vincent D’Onofrio gets trapped under a subway car. And the musical number at the end is pretty good.
For the most part, though, you’re left looking at the screen and wondering why something was supposed to be funny. There just aren’t enough legitimate laughs in The Ten to bother with it.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 5250000
Revenue 785528
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Romance
Director David Wain
Writer Ken Marino, David Wain
Actors Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Winona Ryder
Country United States, Mexico
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Postworks, New York, USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm