You know those guys from The State who made Wet Hot American Summer. You know how hilarious that movie was? Well, they made another one, and it's not as funny as the first one, but its still pretty funny. It's a series of ten short films based on the ten commandments...for some reason. What distinguishes the film is its complete, total, extreme devotion to absurdism. As soon as you think you've seen the most ridiculous thing, another, wildly more ridiculous thing happens. Not all, or even most, of the jokes work, but even the jokes that aren't funny are admirable for their mad vision. Highlights: Oliver Platt as a bad Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator pretending to be the father of a pair of black twins, a cartoon animal orgy, and a busload of children dying of radiation poisoning while lifesaving CAT scan machines lie hoarded in a pair of locked suburban homes. Winona Ryder fucking a ventriloquist's dummy, while kind of hot, is not actually funny. It's a vignette movie, and as with most vignette movies, it's uneven.
Score: 7.5
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