Universal Pictures
Rating: *
Film: A comedy can fail for any number of reasons, but the most condemnable offence has to be utter lack of effort. The filmmakers behind Let's Go to Prison must have forgotten they were making a comedy, because nothing even comes close to resembling a joke.
Fresh out of Rossmore State Penitentiary, career-con, John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard), plots to get even with the judge responsible for sending him to prison. When he learns the judge is dead, he sets his eyes on the judge's son, Nelson Biederman IV (Will Arnett). Lyshitski gets Biederman thrown in prison, then joins him as his cellmate to ensure his time in the clink is a living hell.
Shepard (Without a Paddle, MTV's Punk'd) is a supporting player at best and shouldn't take top billing on anything at this point in his career. The often hilarious Will Arnett (Blades of Glory, Arrested Development) is wasted in an underwritten, one-dimensional role.
Dropping soap in the shower, prison wives, toilet brewed alcohol, abusive guards, and all the other prison movie clichés show up in the film, but laughs are conspicuously absent.