Now, I don't have that much to say about this movie, I write this review to say that the IMDb-score is too low.Here is what I think happened with this. The Tens make fun of Christianity, therefore a lot of people rate it low. Don't listen to these humorless people. The Tens is not laugh out loud-funny every single second, but it is definitely a piece of light entertainment, good for a couple of laughs. To most people at least.There are several segments here and hey vary in quality, but overall this is, like I just said, light entertainment. Some of the segments are kind of strange, not everyone likes that. Paul Rudd is funny and it was after seeing this that I started liking him. Not that I didn't like him before, but you know. Liked him better.I think I might even see it another time, some time in the future. I can't say that about all comedies!

Too bad I could only give this flick a 9. It could have been a 10; but there were a two somewhat lame stories, and the first episode is only so-so. But he rest were brilliant. This comedy doesn't do anything that hasn't been done before. It's very much in the vein of the earlier, zanier Woody Allen films like "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex," and many of the better Zucker/Abrahams stuff, like "Top Secret" or "Airplane." Which is to say, the main humor comes from parodying movie genres, film techniques, and tired romantic plots. It's a pure delight to see these things yanked apart and roasted to well done.What's particularly nice about "The Ten", though is its excellent cast who, with inspired direction and writing, can get deep into the material they are satirizing. The clever way the stories get (loosely) tied together is also nice.Using the ten commandments as a frame, is a very tenuous hook. Though the frame itself, with its narrator adds something to the mix--a sort of story around the stories, so to speak. But don't expect any religious commentary or even irreverence. (Well, maybe a little irreverence. Jesus Christ as a Mexican lothario might be somewhat--no make that very--offensive to some people. Indeed I suspect the low ratings here on IMDb come mostly from people so tied to their sacred cows, be they philosophical or aesthetic, that all they can see is the crudeness that sometimes surrounds the humor, and don't get any of the sophisticated irony.) In the end, then, the link to any specific commandment is more a quick throwaway line than anything structural or moralistic. Which is part of the strength here: there is no attempt to delve into the commandment itself; it's just a convenient tag line, really.This, then, is comedy strictly for film buffs--people who recognize a convention and the wit with which that convention is being skewered. In my opinion, there are just not enough movies of that kind around; and some of what we do have is pretty lame. ZAZ, for example have low production values. this film, can actually parody not just a plot or character convention, but a stylistic one as well.Try it; if you have an critical faculty, you'll see what I mean.

this is not a academy award winning movie.....it was meant to make us laugh or at least smile. in my case it worked. the idea of the movie is well thought of and the actors and actresses are all good. sure its not serious material but the Adam Sander....Eddie Murphy.....will Farrell movies aren't either. i wouldn't see it too many times but i liked it. i think the people who hated it are either prudes or people with no sense of humour.......they prolly prefer pee wee Herman or Mr. bean. oh and i admire Paul Rudd....he can do anything. the sequence i like the least was WINONA RYDER part.....didn't make me laugh at all. did this movie do good at the box office....im french and i don't think the movie ever made it where i live. thank you

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.