When I first saw this film on IMDb I got quite excited. After all, how can you possibly go wrong with such a star-studded cast? So despite the relatively low rating, I braved the winds to go see it. Boy was I wrong. David Wain seems to have done the impossible brainwashed respectable actors into believing they're reading a decent script before signing their contracts. There cannot be any other explanation, I refuse to believe it. I don't normally waste my time reviewing films I regard to be bad, but this one offended my senses so much that any money I can deprive the filmmakers of would be a cause for the greater good.
Hmm, how should I start? The plot is conceptually sound: ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments. It could've gone in the way of Magnolia or Crash: an epic story with an ensemble cast which eventually all ties up nicely after numerous conflicts. But the writers decided to try something new, which is great in theory, I welcome innovation and free enterprise in film-making, but they managed to balls it up so majorly that it's unwatchable. Paul Rudd is normally cute and lovable, but his character the narrator is cheesy and annoying as hell. And that's before we learn that he's screwing Jessica Alba (bouncy and two-dimensional as always, but that's how we like her), which instinctively makes every man on the planet want to kill him.
Now the stories themselves. It's hard to put my finger on which one is the worst because they are all so bad. Lazily thought up, nothing holding the piece together, each feels like an excuse to tell some really unfunny jokes, crude and distasteful. The connections to the Ten Commandments are marginal at best, false at worst.
I think by now you understand how much disdain I reserve for this movie, and the actors who shamed themselves by appearing in it. If you find any copies, BURN THEM. Think of the women and children.
Hmm, how should I start? The plot is conceptually sound: ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments. It could've gone in the way of Magnolia or Crash: an epic story with an ensemble cast which eventually all ties up nicely after numerous conflicts. But the writers decided to try something new, which is great in theory, I welcome innovation and free enterprise in film-making, but they managed to balls it up so majorly that it's unwatchable. Paul Rudd is normally cute and lovable, but his character the narrator is cheesy and annoying as hell. And that's before we learn that he's screwing Jessica Alba (bouncy and two-dimensional as always, but that's how we like her), which instinctively makes every man on the planet want to kill him.
Now the stories themselves. It's hard to put my finger on which one is the worst because they are all so bad. Lazily thought up, nothing holding the piece together, each feels like an excuse to tell some really unfunny jokes, crude and distasteful. The connections to the Ten Commandments are marginal at best, false at worst.
I think by now you understand how much disdain I reserve for this movie, and the actors who shamed themselves by appearing in it. If you find any copies, BURN THEM. Think of the women and children.