religious comedy
directed
by : David Wain featuring
: Paul Rudd - Famke Janssen - Gretchen Mol - Winono Ryder - Jessica
Alba running
time : 1 hour 49 minutesMuch of the group responsible for MTV's
The State - including director/actor David Wain and performers Ken Marino,
Kerri Kinney-Silver and Joe Lo Truglio - reunite for this outrageous, irreverent
and raunchy sketch comedy, which skewers the Ten Commandments. In the framing
sequences, comedian Paul Rudd (who collaborated with much of the cast on
Wet Hot American Summer and The Baxter) stands on a black stage with giant
Biblical tablets projected behind him, and promises to deliver ten mini-stories,
each loosely based on one of the commandments, from "Thou Shalt Have No
Other Gods Before Me" through "Thou Shalt Not Covet." For all of the storyteller's
efforts, however, he is constantly, comically distracted by interferences,
particularly those emanating from intrusions by his multiple girlfriends.
The stories are nonetheless told, one-by-one, in short film form, beginning
with a sketch where Stephen (Adam Brody) goes skydiving with his intended,
Kelly (Winona Ryder) but forgets to wear his parachute and gets stuck in
the mud, waist deep, which draws gawkers, media, and in time, worshippers.
Several of the subsequent stories consist of raunchy, jet-black riffs on
sexual perversion, including one about a virginal librarian (Gretchen Mol)
entangled in a sultry and messy affair with a Mexican, and another memorable
bit about a nutty surgeon who plays a prank by burying a pair of scissors
in a patient's stomach and is then sent to prison - where he experiences
brutal sexual abuse at the hands of other men. As an added bonus, the picture
packs in a fully animated sequence, narrated by several crack-smokers,
entitled 'The Lying Rhino.'
