
Everyone Loves that Infantile Humor. Especially in Jail
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Welcome to a sly and unappealing look at life in and outside of prison from the perspective of John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard-"Employee of The Month"), a dead-beat petty criminal that always seems to want to do anything to go back to prison. His lifelong crime is being too stupid for to live in the real world, so he chooses prison life to anything else because that's all he's good at doing, living in prison.
This film wouldn't be so funny, except Lyshitski gets out and calls the Honorable Judge Biederman on the telephone, to seek revenge on his last prison sentence, but finds out that he is now deceased. John gets hopping mad, but soon finds out that the judge's rich son is the new "whipping boy" for his bag of dirty stunts and decides it's time get the Judge back by getting Nelson Biederman IV (Will Arnett) in deep trouble and sending him to jail along with his own self so he can see to it that his stay behind bars will not be pleasant.
Biederman soon finds himself sentenced to years in a maximum security penitentiary. As you can probably imagine without seeing this film, the sick inmate humor is probably enough to make you want to hurl, but then you add all
the usual amenities of the jail cell like decor, wine made in a toilet, and serious matchmaking attempts from unlikely bonding.
Dax's attempt to capture the essence of his character is successful in his renowned toughness in this prison life environment shows that he's just about comfortable behind camera playing just about anyone doing anything. Bravo!
Our soon to be ex-con, Barry (Chi McBride), shows us just how much of a teddy bear of a man he really is while courting Biederman's heart.
Directed by Bob Odenkirk, who is known for other works such as MELVIN GOES TO DINNER and MR. SHOW, the film takes on a life of it's own and manages to make you feel sorry for all these guys trying to beat out a living within a very dismal and dreary world behind bars. There is a surprise ending to it all, and also you can go back and watch the subtle differences between R and Unrated as well.
I'll give this a 3/5 for its totally laughable moments that would probably blow most folk's mind early in the film, but tend to continue watching because of the hilarious grossness of interactions between characters.
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