No. 39 Let’s Go To Prison (2006) 25 of 100
This film popped to the top of my list when it came up on a random search. It looked a good prospect as it had Bob Odenkirk as director and featured Will Arnett – Gob Bluth off ‘Arrested Development’ – but alas it was a terrible effort and a waste of the talent involved. Looking at the film’s Wikipedia page it’s noted that the film suffered from studio interference in the editing room so they may just get a pass. That said, Odenkirk made the same complaint about his earlier effort ‘Run Ronnie Run’, which was a lot better, so you’d hope that he’d of learnt his lesson. You can tell the film will be a stinker early on when there is a lot of voice over exposition. That usually means stuff has been cut and they need to patch something together from the bits left behind. Here we have Dax Shepard as our protagonist and alarm bells ring right away when his character is called ‘John Lyshitski’. Hee-hee – he has a funny name! John gives us a rundown of his life to date which sees ...