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Let's Go To Prison (2006)

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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. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

R, 1 hr. 29 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Bob Odenkirk

In Theaters: Nov 17, 2006 Wide

On DVD: Mar 6, 2007

Box Office:$5.5M

Universal Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Let's Go To Prison

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.

July 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

It's hard to get laughs out of stuff that devolved into parody 10 or 20 years ago.

November 23, 2006 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Gregory Kirschling

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

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.

November 20, 2006 Comment

Frank Scheck

Hollywood Reporter

Top Critic

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.

November 20, 2006 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Michael Ordo�a

Los Angeles Times

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Let's Go to Prison feels like an overextended sketch-comedy idea insufficiently filled out by subsidiary characters (few significantly figure) or standout setpieces.

November 20, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

Top Critic

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.

November 20, 2006 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Geoff Pevere

Toronto Star

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Punk'd star in adult jail-house comedy.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Jane Boursaw

Common Sense Media

As a comedy, Bob Odenkirk's penitentiary send-up is bootless.

April 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix

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Tom Meek

Boston Phoenix

evern less funny than brothers solomon

April 24, 2008 Comment

Stefan Birgir Stefansson

sbs.is

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.

June 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Calgary Movies

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Ryan Cracknell

Calgary Movies

...has its share of effective moments - most of which come courtesy of star Will Arnett...

May 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

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.

March 27, 2007 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze

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Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

89 minutes that drag on like, well, a prison sentence.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International

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Frank Lovece

Film Journal International

its off-kilter wit is displayed with stinginess (or is it laziness?).

January 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Jesse Hassenger

Filmcritic.com

Oh gee, let's not.

December 4, 2006 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review

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Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

Let's not. And say we did.

December 3, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Linda Cook

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Prison makes its 84-minute running time feel like a five-year sentence with no chance for parole.

November 27, 2006 Full Review Source: AV Club

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Nathan Rabin

AV Club

Life's too short.

November 22, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Mark Palermo

Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Consider this one disarmed and extremely pointless.

November 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

If movies could be punished, Let's Go to Prison would be sent to solitary confinement for impersonating a prison comedy.

November 20, 2006 Comment

Larry Ratliff

San Antonio Express-News Source: San Antonio Express-News

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

November 20, 2006 Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

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Mark Pfeiffer

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

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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

Manu Gino

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

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

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