Let's Go to Prison 2006

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Prison makes its 84-minute running time feel like a five-year sentence with no chance for parole. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: There's an interestingly ugly social comedy to be made about jail, but Let's Go to Prison isn't it. Read more

Michael Ordona, Los Angeles Times: 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. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more

Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: It's hard to get laughs out of stuff that devolved into parody 10 or 20 years ago. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: The elements of dark comedy, prison system satire, and juvenile gross-out gags eventually blend like the slop ladled out for inmates at feeding time. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: 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. Read more

Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: 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. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: 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. Read more

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