Let's Go to Prison
The movie follows a career criminal named John Lyshitski, whose plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances. He puts his intended victim's son to jail and going back there only to make the victim's stay there as horrible as possible.
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
3 December 1948, Aston, Birmingham, England, UK
19 January 1980, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 June 1966, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
9 May 1953, Deadwood, South Dakota, USA
3 October 1962, Athens, Greece
January 01, 2011
Punk'd star in adult jail-house comedy.
April 24, 2008
evern less funny than brothers solomon
November 23, 2006
It's hard to get laughs out of stuff that devolved into parody 10 or 20 years ago.
May 17, 2007
...has its share of effective moments - most of which come courtesy of star Will Arnett...
November 20, 2006
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 27, 2006
Prison makes its 84-minute running time feel like a five-year sentence with no chance for parole.
November 20, 2006
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
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.
April 23, 2009
As a comedy, Bob Odenkirk's penitentiary send-up is bootless.
March 27, 2007
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.
July 28, 2009
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.
June 21, 2007
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.
