The Ten Commandments Redux
Posted on Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 8:02 AM by David Zavadil
Last night my wife, daughter and I joined a couple from EPC in seeing the new animated movie, "The Ten Commandments." I had heard some decent pre-release reviews and was looking forward to seeing the movie. I am glad I didn't set my hopes too high.
While the story was good, you can't beat the story of Moses for a good story line, the animation and voice overs left a lot to be desired. When the movie began I had this odd feeling that I was watching an old Godzilla movie redone with Claymation on steroids. The computer animation had a cleanness to it, though with odd shaped features and mouths out of sinc with the dialogue. The backgrounds seemed over done and often awkward. Moses and Ramses must have worked out on the stairclimber for hours to develop the calves they had.
I guess you can tell, I was not too impressed with the animation. As I said earlier, the story line was great. The actor's voice overs, however, did little to move you. Many times during the movie, Christian Slater and Alfred Molina came across as teenagers reading a play in English class. This "acting" left the whole movie stale. When all was said and done, the dozen or so people in the theater, yawned a big yawn and left in search of some ice cream. This movie saddened me. One of the greatest stories ever told was reduced to second rate animation and made so vanilla that I would be afraid to tell someone to go and see it.
I give the movie a 1 out of 5. Wait for the movie to show on Network TV next Easter, at least then it won't cost you anything.
Edited on: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:45 AMPosted in Just For Fun (RSS)
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