"Where's your Moses now?" brays Dathan in the manner of a Lower East Side gangster. Robinson), are forgetting their religion and behaving like libertines. Meanwhile, the Hebrews, led by the duplicitous Dathan (Edward G. Sinai, who delivers unto him the Ten Commandments. Later, Moses is again confronted by God on Mt. But Moses rescues his people with a little Divine legerdemain by parting the Seas. As the Hebrews reach the Red Sea, they discover that Rameses has gone back on his word and plans to have them all killed. Only after the Deadly Plagues have decimated Egypt does Rameses give in. Banished by his jealous half-brother Rameses (Yul Brynner), Moses returns fully bearded to Pharoah's court, warning that he's had a message from God and that the Egyptians had better free the Hebrews post-haste if they know what's good for them. Moses (Charlton Heston) starts out "in solid" as Pharoah's adopted son (and a whiz at designing pyramids, dispensing such construction-site advice as "Blood makes poor mortar"), but when he discovers his true Hebrew heritage, he attempts to make life easier for his people. The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard struggle to free the Hebrews from their slavery at the hands of the Egyptians. I can't recommend it, really, but it's a guilty pleasure for me.Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B. After the first half-hour, it starts to lose a lot of its charm in favour for something I'd accept in any other animated film (I'd even go so far as to say they 'Aardman-ized' it), but I still found it strangely entertaining. Every time the movie did something to make me groan, like when the villain revealed his evil plan before it was too late for Pat to stop him and, probably the most painful of all, Jess not being able to tell the difference between his beloved owner and a robot, it managed to pull me back with either a decent joke or something equally entertaining.Īll-in-all, I can see why a lot of Pat fans don't like this movie. Like Tom and Jerry the movie, I don't really like this as something connected to its respective series but rather its own entity. However, in spite of all of this, I found this strangely enjoyable, but more as its own stand-alone sort of thing. As if that's not enough, we also get a terminator reference and, yeah, is this really Postman Pat? You could have had the fame and attention get to Pat's head only for him to learn a lesson in the end and that would have been fine. And honestly, I think the talent show plot was good enough. I was able to accept the existence of cellphones and a PS Vita, of all things, in the world of Postman Pat, but the evil robot thing really shouldn't be connected to this.Īnd before you say anything, yes, I know movies connected to cartoon shows usually try to differentiate themselves from their source material. I was already a little skeptical when they revealed the whole Robot Pat thing, but when it escalated into a bigger plot, this was where the movie almost lost me. The first little while felt like an episode of the series and even the talent show story line at least made sense as Pat was doing it for his wife and not for himself, and Pat's always been selfless so that was great. I'll admit, for the first half-hour, I really didn't see what was so bad about this film.
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