For those who recall those old Classics Illustrated comics of the 1940s and ’50s--and even for those who don’t--there’s an endearing, earnest quality to The Ten Commandments that transcends its star-studded cast and computer-generated animation.
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VarietyJoe Leydon
VarietyJoe Leydon
A well-intentioned misfire featuring 3-D CGI animation that recalls lesser vidgames of the mid-1990s.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bad animation and casting make Moses movie a zero, not a Ten.
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Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The panoramic backgrounds have a silky beauty, but the characters are cheaply rendered with doll faces, enlarged musculature, tiny joints, and clunky movement. It's like watching Max Headroom lead his people out of Egypt.
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Austin ChronicleSteve Davis
Austin ChronicleSteve Davis
There’s something earnest and forthright about the movie, despite its misguided execution.