The Ten – 8/10
I watched this movie on Netflix Watch Now. It was a fine film.
It’s basically 10 short films with a running thing in between each one. Some of the characters repeat or come back into the stories, and the stories are relatively original for the most part. The weak moments are quickly overcome by the hilarious ones and it all pretty much evens out to a ‘pretty good’.
The best shorts have to be the envy one and the murder one. Both had me wanting to buy the film just for those. I laughed so hard at the envy one. It was original, hilarious, and incredibly well done. All the obvious jokes that you assumed were coming were replaced with things you didn’t really see coming at all, completely weird things, but amazing things all the same. That’s the thing about this movie… the weirder it got, the more I got into it. And it got pretty darn weird.
The musical bits were one of the weaker points, and honestly, Paul Rudd’s segments weren’t exactly gold, surprisingly… Also, the jail short and bits of a few of the others weren’t on par with the rest which brought the whole vibe down from what would otherwise have been a solid 9/10.
It’s definitely worth the watch. The thing about shorts is that if you don’t like one, you just have to wait a few minutes. And trust me, the wait through the weak ones is well worth it for the great bits.
Oh, and I just have to say, that black judge made me cry. So. incredibly. hilarious. That’s pretty much all I’ll think about for the next week. Honestly, if nothing else about the movie was worthwhile, I’d still tell you to watch it just for her. Amazing.
