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Title: Let's Go to Prison!
Year: 2006
Director: Bob Odenkirk
Plot: 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, All Movie Guide
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]]>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:58:09 GMTLet's Go to Prison!2006Bob Odenkirk<a href="/players/P___266630/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Bob Odenkirk</a>'s jail comedy <a href=/films/261164/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Let's Go to Prison</a>, stars <a href="/players/P___214970/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Will Arnett</a> 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 (<a href="/players/P___372569/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Dax Shepard</a>) 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. <a href="/players/P___215799/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Chi McBride</a> co-stars as a fellow inmate. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide12Tag Target (>10)622http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u14467kjbij.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Let_s_Go_to_Prison/261164/default.aspxFilm Spout Post: Let's Go To Prison http://www.spout.com/blogs/theworkingdead/archive/2008/2/11/24959.aspx

Post By: TheWorkingDead
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Post Date: 2/11/2008 8:34:51 AM
Body: I had heard nothing good about this film, and was expecting a pretty stupid movie, the way most comedies these days tend to be. That isn't a 'back in my day' attitude I'm taking, I'm just saying that ever since American Pie, comedy has become more mean spirited, more focused on bodily fluids and the wacky ways people can ingest/become covered by them, and more... unrealistic, to use a possibly faulty descriptive. What changed my mind was a fairly enjoyable cast(I'm a bit on the fence about Dax Shepard, but after this, Idiocracy and Zathura, I'm leaning towards liking him), and the involvement of Bob Odenkirk, half of the greatest comedy duo of my generation.Now, lest I give the wrong impression, it should be noted that Let's Go To Prison is very mean-spirited- at least on the surface- and has plenty of gross-out humor, and is a tad unrealistic at times. So why do I feel so much more comfortable watching this than, say, Epic Movie or Dude Where's My Car? Because, beneath that nasty exterior, the movie is actually very empathetic towards it's main characters. They may get beaten and humiliated in ways meant to amuse us, but the movie is actually attempting to make a point here. It wouldn't work to say that this movie is a realistic portrayal of prison life. I mean, this is no Oz, but neither is it Hogan's Heroes. Sure the humor is played up, but it's more like they viewed the reality of the situation through the lense of humor, rather than tried to force screwball slapstick in between the horrors of toothbrush shivs and prison sex.As John Lyshitski(Dax Shepard) says: It costs $54 a day to keep a person in prison, which comes out to $75 million a day nationally. That's $28 billion a year. When you think about it, wouldn't it be cheaper just to let us keep your goddamn car stereos?In the end, I think I came away from this feeling much the same way I did about Idiocracy; wondering why the hell this movie hadn't been treated better by the studio. Although, to be fair, this movie actually got a theatrical release and I did see some ads on television, which is a helluva lot more than Idiocracy got. But in the end, this was a movie that the studio had no idea how to market, with a sense of humor more subtle than I think they were expecting, and some unexpected social commentary, and it kinda got dumped onto a few screens and then quietly forgotten until it came time to release it on DVD.
]]>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:34:51 GMTTheWorkingDeadTheWorkingDead Blog2/11/2008 8:34:51 AMI had heard nothing good about this film, and was expecting a pretty stupid movie, the way most comedies these days tend to be. That isn't a 'back in my day' attitude I'm taking, I'm just saying that ever since American Pie, comedy has become more mean spirited, more focused on bodily fluids and the wacky ways people can ingest/become covered by them, and more... unrealistic, to use a possibly faulty descriptive. What changed my mind was a fairly enjoyable cast(I'm a bit on the fence about Dax Shepard, but after this, Idiocracy and Zathura, I'm leaning towards liking him), and the involvement of Bob Odenkirk, half of the greatest comedy duo of my generation.Now, lest I give the wrong impression, it should be noted that Let's Go To Prison is very mean-spirited- at least on the surface- and has plenty of gross-out humor, and is a tad unrealistic at times. So why do I feel so much more comfortable watching this than, say, Epic Movie or Dude Where's My Car? Because, beneath that nasty exterior, the movie is actually very empathetic towards it's main characters. They may get beaten and humiliated in ways meant to amuse us, but the movie is actually attempting to make a point here. It wouldn't work to say that this movie is a realistic portrayal of prison life. I mean, this is no Oz, but neither is it Hogan's Heroes. Sure the humor is played up, but it's more like they viewed the reality of the situation through the lense of humor, rather than tried to force screwball slapstick in between the horrors of toothbrush shivs and prison sex.As John Lyshitski(Dax Shepard) says: It costs $54 a day to keep a person in prison, which comes out to $75 million a day nationally. That's $28 billion a year. When you think about it, wouldn't it be cheaper just to let us keep your goddamn car stereos?In the end, I think I came away from this feeling much the same way I did about Idiocracy; wondering why the hell this movie hadn't been treated better by the studio. Although, to be fair, this movie actually got a theatrical release and I did see some ads on television, which is a helluva lot more than Idiocracy got. But in the end, this was a movie that the studio had no idea how to market, with a sense of humor more subtle than I think they were expecting, and some unexpected social commentary, and it kinda got dumped onto a few screens and then quietly forgotten until it came time to release it on DVD. Spout Post: Let's Go to Prison http://www.spout.com/blogs/moviebabe/archive/2007/7/19/15381.aspx

Post By: MovieBabe
Post To: MovieBabe Blog
Post Date: 7/19/2007 11:23:00 PM
Body: By Tricia Olszewski No shock here: Let’s Go to Prison is not the next Borat. But you gotta laugh at anyone—convict or otherwise—who says with complete sincerity, “I go apeshit over Chuck Mangione.” Mr. Show’s Bob Odenkirk directs this passable comedy, which was co-written by Reno 911! scribes Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon, and Michael Patrick Jann. Their script, a bit disturbingly, is based on Jim Hogshire’s quite serious survival guide, You Are Going to Prison, but the movie’s intention isn’t to scare anyone straight: John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) has been in and out of the slammer since he was a kid, always convicted by the same judge. When John finishes his latest sentence, he sets out to seek revenge on the guy, only to discover that hizzoner was promoted to that great bench in the sky only three days prior. So instead John decides to frame Nelson, the judge’s spoiled, anxious son (Will Arnett) and get tossed back into jail so he can personally torment him. The clichés, from corrupt guards to cigarette currency, are as frequent as a Cops arrestee’s proclamations of innocence, and a few funny gags had to be stretched to stupidity to fill the movie’s slight 84 minutes. Shepard’s dry narration and the cocky-but-dim act that Arnett perfected on Arrested Development are the best parts of this foe/buddy flick, along with Chi McBride’s physically intimidating prisoner, who doesn’t declare Nelson his bitch but instead warns him to “prepare to be woo-ed” by his smooth-jazz come-ons. Odenkirk’s direction, too, helps strengthen the script, most ingeniously by frequently zooming in on Arnett’s looks of either 1) childlike terror or 2) stunned resignation, both somehow made funnier by his purty blue-green eyes. (Giving him lines such as “Crying takes the sad out of you” doesn’t hurt, either.) When Let’s Go to Prison really tanks, it does so suddenly and significantly. Its forced third chapter, however, is arguably worth enduring, considering previous joys such as a montage of Nelson’s initiation—set to the nearly literal “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head.”
]]>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:23:00 GMTMovieBabeMovieBabe Blog7/19/2007 11:23:00 PM By Tricia Olszewski No shock here: Let’s Go to Prison is not the next Borat. But you gotta laugh at anyone—convict or otherwise—who says with complete sincerity, “I go apeshit over Chuck Mangione.” Mr. Show’s Bob Odenkirk directs this passable comedy, which was co-written by Reno 911! scribes Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon, and Michael Patrick Jann. Their script, a bit disturbingly, is based on Jim Hogshire’s quite serious survival guide, You Are Going to Prison, but the movie’s intention isn’t to scare anyone straight: John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) has been in and out of the slammer since he was a kid, always convicted by the same judge. When John finishes his latest sentence, he sets out to seek revenge on the guy, only to discover that hizzoner was promoted to that great bench in the sky only three days prior. So instead John decides to frame Nelson, the judge’s spoiled, anxious son (Will Arnett) and get tossed back into jail so he can personally torment him. The clichés, from corrupt guards to cigarette currency, are as frequent as a Cops arrestee’s proclamations of innocence, and a few funny gags had to be stretched to stupidity to fill the movie’s slight 84 minutes. Shepard’s dry narration and the cocky-but-dim act that Arnett perfected on Arrested Development are the best parts of this foe/buddy flick, along with Chi McBride’s physically intimidating prisoner, who doesn’t declare Nelson his bitch but instead warns him to “prepare to be woo-ed” by his smooth-jazz come-ons. Odenkirk’s direction, too, helps strengthen the script, most ingeniously by frequently zooming in on Arnett’s looks of either 1) childlike terror or 2) stunned resignation, both somehow made funnier by his purty blue-green eyes. (Giving him lines such as “Crying takes the sad out of you” doesn’t hurt, either.) When Let’s Go to Prison really tanks, it does so suddenly and significantly. Its forced third chapter, however, is arguably worth enduring, considering previous joys such as a montage of Nelson’s initiation—set to the nearly literal “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head.” Spout Tag:revenge http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/revenge/MemberTagFilms.aspxrevenge
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