A beyond-unimpressive computer-animated retelling of the story of Moses, The Ten Commandments seems to have been made using public-domain software, and targeted squarely at kids impressed by any brightly colored moving objects projected on a screen. It fails on every conceivable level. Characters with the smooth skin and detail-free features of fresh-off-the-assembly-line mannequins walk stiffly through animated landscapes that wouldn't make the cut in a commercial for a used-car dealership. The film takes a doggedly literal approach to the Bible, except when it doesn't. When Moses slays the slave-abusing Egyptian, it's softened to play as an act of self-defense. When the Jews complain in the desert, they say things like "Are we there yet?" and "A little manna goes a long way!" And then there's the voice cast. Elliott Gould, the sound of forceless equivocation for more than three decades, plays God. Doing little to rein in his nasal, Hollywood-hepcat inflections, Christian Slater plays Moses. Presumably, Lou Diamond Phillips passed on the part.