Comedy: The Ten

The Ten (2007)

Paul Rudd hosts an ensemble cast of today's comedic stars through ten separate stories related to the Ten Commandments. Each "sin" is presented in unbelievable terms, and they all get tied together in the end.

I really was hoping to like this movie, but I have to say that I was quite disappointed. I mean, look at this full cast of talent. This movie should have been hilarious, but it just fell short on too many occasions. Winona Ryder fucking a dummy? The perceived argument between the dummy and her fiance after they are caught together was the best part of that scene.

Most of the movie was full of preposterous examples of violations of each commandment, which is where they lost me. There are definitely some unexpected gems, such as the best part of the movie:

Gretchen Mol plays the prudish librarian. She goes to Mexico to get away, and visits an old friend of her father's. She shows up at the ranch on a rikshaw being pulled by a hopping amputee (silly). As she steps off, she is greeted by her father's friend and his wife, who are clearly both lowly ranchers. She hugs the man, and he is so happy to see her, he says:

(in broken english) "I waaa, I waaaan, I waaan to fuck your tits."

Mol's bookwormish character, shocked at what he just said, says "Oh no, I don't think that's what you meant to say."

The man replies "One second" and whispers in spanish to the elderly woman standing next to him "how do you say 'I want to fuck your tits' in english?"

Now, if the rest of the movie was this hilarious, I'd have given it a much higher rating. The above scene did do it for me, and there were a few other moments that were equally brilliant, but I have to say

it was okay