Average Rating: 3/10
Reviews Counted: 41
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 36
Let's Go to Prison is guilty on all counts of cliched setups, base humor, and failure to ellicit laughs.
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 12
Let's Go to Prison is guilty on all counts of cliched setups, base humor, and failure to ellicit laughs.
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Bob Odenkirk's jail comedy Let's Go to Prison!, stars Will Arnett as Nelson Biederman IV, the son of a judge who ends up being sentenced to serve time in Rossmore State Penitentiary. During one of his rare stints out of incarceration, career criminal John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) learns of the conviction. John holds a grudge against Nelson's father and decides to get his revenge by going back to jail and making Nelson's stay there as horrible as possible. Chi McBride co-stars as a fellow inmate.
Nov 17, 2006 Wide
Mar 6, 2007
$5.5M
Universal Pictures
All Critics (41) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (37) | DVD (8)
Shepard's character periodically rattles off damning statistics about America's booming prison industry, but most of the gags are of the don't-drop-the-soap variety.
It's hard to get laughs out of stuff that devolved into parody 10 or 20 years ago.
Arnett underplays to the point where he seems as shellshocked as his character, while Shepard seems to have forgotten that the film is supposed to be a comedy.
Because the movie can't bring itself to take that leap into full-on absurdity, the characters and comic opportunities stay confined to their cells.
Let's Go to Prison feels like an overextended sketch-comedy idea insufficiently filled out by subsidiary characters (few significantly figure) or standout setpieces.
The movie's too dryly detached to even enjoy its own tastelessness: jokes constantly fall with the dull clatter of cutlery on the mess-hall floor, and the relentless abuse meted out to the hapless Biederman backfires by dint of sheer ritual repetition.
Punk'd star in adult jail-house comedy.
As a comedy, Bob Odenkirk's penitentiary send-up is bootless.
evern less funny than brothers solomon
The short and the sweet of it: Let's Go to Prison is one of the worst pieces of Hollywood garbage I have ever seen.
...has its share of effective moments - most of which come courtesy of star Will Arnett...
Though sloppily edited like a bad B-movie, this poor man's version of Trading Places will undoubtedly resonate for anyone with a taste for gruesome gallows humor, and a desire to see a spoiled, rich kid get a taste of how the other half lives.
89 minutes that drag on like, well, a prison sentence.
its off-kilter wit is displayed with stinginess (or is it laziness?).
Oh gee, let's not.
Let's not. And say we did.
Prison makes its 84-minute running time feel like a five-year sentence with no chance for parole.
Life's too short.
Consider this one disarmed and extremely pointless.
If movies could be punished, Let's Go to Prison would be sent to solitary confinement for impersonating a prison comedy.
As crazy and subversive as Let's Go to Prison's makers might believe it to be, it's too undisciplined and predictable to amount to anything
Welcome to the slammer Purely a comedy that isn't very funny but entertains at least with some wild crappy things that only in jail could happen. This is just a movie to watch to joke around with your friends while you watch it, it's not meant to take seriously at all.John Lyshitski is a car stealing slacker, with a
January 24, 2010
Super Reviewer
Let's go to prison is a borderline average comedy. I did enjoy the film somewhat, but the humour is hit and miss. This could have been a terrific comedy, but it manages to only provide a few humorous quips here and there, but never manages to give you laugh out loud moments. But for some reason, I can't quite dislike
May 24, 2011
Super Reviewer
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