Let's Go to Prison: Critic Reviews

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

Let's Go to Prison is a sly, very funny comedy that stays admirably deadpan every time you think its about to veer into gross-out territory.

There's an interestingly ugly social comedy to be made about jail, but Let's Go to Prison isn't it.

Arnett has seven movies coming out within the next year. It seems safe, or at least optimistic, to assume that this is not going to be his high point. But he does make a consistently amusing Felix to Shepard's frustrated Oscar.

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.

This really isn't a comedy. It's more of a woolly spoof, stretched out to criminal lengths.

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 writers of this movie should be sentenced to a comedy chain gang peeling bananas and making cream pies.

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.

The main crime in this movie is that the whole thing feels lazy -- it's as if they filmed the first draft of a script that still needed some trimming and sharpening.

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.

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.