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Let's Go To Prison
It’s directed by Mr. Show’s Bob Odenkirk; written by Reno: 911’s Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant and Michael Patrick Jann; partially scored by Queens of the Stone Age; and stars reliable funnymen Dax Shepard and Will Arnett.
So, why was this hidden from critics and promoted as a one-note rape-joke movie? Beats us, but it marks the second time this year, after Idiocracy, that a quite good Dax Shepard comedy has been mismarketed.
Yes, the usual prison movie touchstones are here—the a-hole warden (Dylan Baker), the white supremacist gang, the inevitable fear of a shower reacharound—but they’re all in the service of a truly absurd plot, in which Shepard’s John Lyshitski, fresh out of the joint, plots revenge on the judge who put him there, only to find out the man has died three days prior.
To satisfy his jones for vengeance, Lyshitski instead decides to make life miserable for the judge’s son Nelson (Will Arnett), getting him framed for assault, then deliberately having himself thrown back in the slammer so he can become junior’s cellmate and make things even worse for the guy.
Fortunately for all, Nelson’s a pompous jerk who deserves it, but what doesn’t kill him makes him—and the movie—stronger. Odenkirk’s visual sense ain’t the greatest, but he definitely knows funny.
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