A Major Disappointment

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I chose to watch this movie because of three different factors. First, Will Arnett is in it. Second, it's directed by Bob Odenkirk, while I know practically nothing about his directing, his name still made me interested. But the third and final reason that made me watch Let's Go To Prison was that it seemed extremely stupid. It's always refreshing to watch stupid comedies.But was this comedy stupid? To be honest, it could've been stupider. The plot was actually pretty sly. The writing amazed me, not because it was that brilliant, but mostly because I was expecting something so much worse. It actually was pretty fun to listen to the dialogue, and it sometimes was even clever. Also certain plot twists were no easy to predict, and the movie was so much fun. I felt ashamed of how many inappropriate things felt funny in this film.Also this movie has the perfect ending. There's clever twist and then the last setting feels idyllic.The story was told in an interesting way. First-person narrative is always pretty interesting in a movie, especially when the movie is based on a book. You can't use all the narrative used in the novel, so what do you pick? The writers of this movie sure knew how to pick the exact right lines and nothing more, nothing less. Also there were a lot of fun effects used, mostly the cinematography: zooming, angles and such.Let's Go to Prison feels weirdly fresh. The idea feels used, but the movie itself feels different from the typical movies of this genre. It was a lot different from what I expected, a lot funnier and a lot cleverer. I think I actually liked this movie.

This film had an awful intro song, which is the wort first impression a movie can have.The plot line is one of the dummest and unconvincing story lines I've seen.Despite that, it had some funny moments.The production value was very low, the punching sound effects were unrealistic.The only good thing of the movie was the plot twist in the end, I didn't expect one at all.The movie really didn't go anywhere from there. It seemed as if the whole movie was made as long as possible just for the plot twist. And the reveal isn't very exiting either.Overall, it's meh.5/10

After a recent story of bad film watching, I was not expecting much of this. However, I was happily surprised by an easy going comedy. The acting is superb and the poker faces of the actors fit perfectly in the dark humour that permeates the whole film. There is a tiny ration of heart here but, really, just tiny. 99% of the movie keeps away from that trend, which makes it quite compact and, well, funnier. No need to be cheesy for that. Not all the fun here is apt for all audiences but it will do just fine for the average teenager-adult, particularly men, I suspect. There's not much of that scatological humour that can be found in the Scary Movie saga, which is refreshing. Overall, I enjoyed myself with this and finished it with a nice feeling.

Not long into watching "Let's Go To Prison", I started to wonder if this movie was originally constructed as a direct-to-video release or as a cable movie, instead of being made for theaters. Researching the production company, I saw that almost all their other credits are TV work. Also, the production values of the movie aren't so hot - though not serious cheap to the eye, the movie boasts some evident cost-cutting, like the frequent use of close-ups. Still, I think the movie still could have worked - but it doesn't. It simply isn't that funny, with no spin done on tired prison clichés that long stopped being funny. (As well, there are some scenes that seem to be intended to be *serious* - what the...?) Also, there is not one sympathetic character in the movie, making it hard to care about the fate of anyone. I will admit that the (mostly) non-name cast does manage to show they have talent, enough that I hope they manage to move past this movie and get better quality productions to work on. But this isn't enough to save the movie.