He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him. Nelson IV's incarceration should be enough for John, who knows that someone like Nelson IV, ill-equipped mentally for a life behind bars, is easy prey to get beaten, raped and/or killed in prison.
Show was (but hellwhat can be?) But director Bob Odenkirk still has a winner here.A hard-luck limo driver struggles to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie. Whenever he's on the screen ithad me in stitches. But the REAL star of the film is ChiMcBride as Barry, an eloquent rapist. Will Arnet is pretty funny and DaxShepard plays off him quite well. But things don'talways go as planned afterwords though.Personally I found this film hilarious and don't really know whythere's all this hatred towards it. But he dies three days before he getsfree of prison, so John decides to go after the judge's son, Nelson(Will Arnet of brilliant 'Arrested Development' fame) John's plan is toframe Nelson, get him sent to jail, and then get himself sent to thesame jail to bunk with him, which he accomplishes. John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) is a young guy who's spent most of hislife in prison, blaming the judge who continuously sent him them, hehatches his plan for revenge. If you like Van Wilder, Sorority Boys, andHarold and Kumar Goes to White Castle type of movies, then you willlike this as well.
However, after some thought, Ifigure this is comedy and the whole movie is a stretch of theimagination so I am overlooking this weakness.I am not saying, however, that this is a great comedy but it was goodand it had me laughing pretty much throughout the movie and in myopinion, that warrants a 7. The writers should have thought of a moreplausible reason for his incarceration. It'sjust that they don't have the name recognition.The only weakness I found in this movies was the crime by with whichthe judge's son was framed. You will recognize actors and actresses sincemany of them have appeared in many films as supporting characters. But what can you do since there really is nostar power in this movie. It's amazing that crappy comedy movies like Wild Hogs andI Think I Love My Wife get all the attention while really funny movielike this get passed by. In fact, I never heard of thisfilm at all. I am surprised it did notget that much notoriety in the theaters. It was given only a 5 star by IMDb users so Idid not expect much but it was quite good. The habitual criminal thencommits a crime to be his cell mate and there the fun begins.This is obviously a dark-humored comedy and it had me laughing morethan I had anticipated. He devises a method of revenge upon this judgewhereupon his release from prison, he frames the judge's son on a crimewhich sends the judge's son to prison.
Thestory is about a habitual criminal who repeatedly comes before the samejudge to be sentenced. I found this movie to be quite funny with an original story line. But has John gone too far in the payback department? Here, the world-class selfish jerk learns a certain old lesson the hard way: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. When the heartless judge, who has been behind most of his sentences, goes to the big court house in the sky, John decides to ruin the man's legacy by having the judge's only offspring, Nelson Biederman IV, thrown in the slammer along with him.
Cursed with the old ill luck of being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in possession of the wrong car, he's been deemed a lost cause repeat offender in the eyes of everyone else. John Lyshitski is a car stealing slacker, with a weed problem, and has been in Illinois' Rossmore State Penitentiary so many times, he knows its entire population of both staff and cons by their first names. When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison.and then joining him.