The Ten Commandments

2007 "An ordinary man. An extraordinary calling."
2.9| 1h28m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 19 October 2007 Released
Producted By: Promenade Pictures
Country: United States of America
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This vibrantly animated feature recounts the biblical epic of the Hebrew prophet Moses and the Ten Commandments. Led by the word of God, Moses challenges the ominous Egyptian pharaoh, performs miracles and guides the chosen people on a 40-year journey through the desert to free them from captivity and lead them to the Promised Land.

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Maz-hell The tale of Moses and family is one of the best known tales in the history of the world: Hundreds and hundreds of pieces of art represent it, some of them masterpieces. The ten commandments of 1956 is one of the best movies ever made. Prince of Egypt is one of the most beloved Dreamworks movies. You have resources. You have great voice actors. You have reknowned animators. You have everything. How can it go so wrong?Let's forget for a moment about the animation (it is horrible beyond words) The voice acting is bad, everyone sounds bored. The story has nothing going for it, it is not even well redacted. The jokes are bad, extremely bad. Not even the plagues were enticing. I repeat: a haze, extreme darkness, severe infections... not even the angel of death is good. Nothing in this movie is good. Find other movie. Not even god can forgive this piece of garbage for existing.
ecs5044 I saw this movie during a church function. The graphics were very basic, but that fact that it accurately depicts the story of moses and the ten commandments is why this movie receives my thumbs up. This is a movie that i think was well received by children. The fact that the movie is animated is why the kids were drawn into the story. This movie is for a family setting of parents and their children. I noticed that older viewers did not really watch the movie closely. I would recommend this movie to anybody who wants to teach their children about the bible and its wonderful stories. Overall this work is decent and should be used as an education resource to explore one great story of the old testament.
DICK STEEL I suppose Biblical stories will never run out of fashion, though I find it a bit strange that amongst the numerous potential stories for retelling, the story of Moses got chosen again, and for an animated movie no less, although this one's done in 3D. Remember Prince of Egypt? Dreamworks Animation pretty much nailed it, especially when you have a relatively successful hit song as a byproduct (played ad nauseam until it became an irritant). Comparisons are inevitable given the content and the form, and unfortunately, this movie with input from IVL Animation (Singapore) didn't surpass the benchmark set by Prince of Egypt, but it's a slight improvement to the local 3D animated movies that have been released to date (that of Zodiac: The Race Begins and Tales of the Sea).The Ten Commandments that this version offered is a super summary of events that are in the Bible, starting from an infant Moses in a basket surviving a water borne trip, and bypassing his growing up years creatively through the opening credits. If using Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 movie starring Charlton Heston as the baseline, then it managed to shear off more than 50% of that content, and added just a little bit more toward the last act, which seemed to drag it just a tad longer, including events that you may or may not already be familiar with, but definitely not in the DeMille film, nor in Prince of Egypt.As an animated movie, and a 3D one at that, it still has not reached the level of quality that one is accustomed to from, say Pixar, which in my opinion deem worthy to be used to measure up against. The animation here is still blocky at certain bits, especially in character design and rendering. But credit has to be given for how key scenes were depicted, and I thought the Burning Bush was particularly well done. Other than that, the Parting of the Red Sea was another key moment, but unfortunately didn't offer any spectacular Wow moment that the earlier Ten Commandment movies provided. It pales compared to the 2D style in Prince of Egypt, though it included a nod towards it of sorts by having those whales(?) swimming around and seen through the water curtain.The movie managed to snag a more international cast for its voicing of characters, and I thought having Christian Slater (Moses), Alfred Molina (Ramses) and Elliot Gould as the Voice of God, was a marked leap forward in helping the movie gain more attention, compared to the use of local actors (no disrespect of course) who may not have as much international clout to make the film appealing to audiences outside our borders.This movie will most likely appeal to Sunday School groups, given that it's relatively free of scary images, but yet managing to tell the story of various plagues descending onto Egypt.
wonbyone74 I can't give this a 1 because the story line was fabulous and Biblical. However, the first 30 SECONDS of the movie, I knew my artist husband would hem and haw through the whole thing. The animation was horrible!!! This is 2007 and it looked like it should have been played in 1987...I should have known when my group of 5 were sitting in the theater and NO ONE else showed up, that this was not going to be a great movie. Prince of Egypt was a fantastic movie...I just am not sure why this one was not....Come on Hollywood, we want Christian movies, but we want them to be worth spending 8.50 on...Needless to say, this will not be one for the collection.