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      Prison-a-Go-Go!

      R Released Oct 27, 2003 1h 25m Comedy List
      Reviews 71% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A woman (Laurie Walton) infiltrates a female prison to find out what happened to her missing sister. Read More Read Less

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      Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed A pretty entertaining C grade women in prison flick that doesn't even take its goofy premise seriously. Oct 28, 2011 Full Review Bill Gibron DVDTalk.com Prison a Go-Go will probably inspire some minor mirth for those who don't look for sense or sensibility in their wit. Rated: 2.5/5 Jul 31, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Mary Woronov for President (or prime minister)! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Prison-A-Go-Go is the "story" that spoofs/pays homage the wild and zany women-in-prison films that used to grace our TV screens late at night, mostly through the 70's, 80's and 90's. In this satire (I guess), a mad scientist sends goons to a random house to kidnap a woman and take her to his laboratory at the women's prison in the Philippines. The girl's sister finds a calling card left behind and commits murder to get thrown in the prison where she sets out to find her missing sister, all while engaging in multiple shower scenes, food fights, mud wrestling, ninja/prisoner battle royales, and so one and so forth. There's also zombies, mass amounts of female fart and shit gags, and Troma president Lloyd Kaufman (as a guard). Oh, and cult icons Rhonda Shear (still looking quite fuckable but never shows the goods sadly) and Mary Woronov (why how she has aged terribly) show up as a prisoner and a liason to the prison who hires a new warden, a slacker dude whose about as funny as the rest of this entire film. In the 80-something minutes I endured of this film, there was genuinely NOTHING funny about it. The jokes were there, plain as day, but I found myself staring blankly at each and everyone of them without so much as a cracked smile. To further add to my boredom, the film elicits a shower scene timer at the bottom right hand side of the screen that lets you know when ever shower scene comes up. These "multiple shower" scenes appear to be one small one chopped up into even smaller scenes that feature the same girls over and over, all of whom are lacking both in the beauty AND titty department. Overall, this movie is dull and very unfunny. I appreciate the filmmakers' intentions and got where they were coming from, but the overall execution was awfully lame. Not very good at all. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member if you're not watching this right now, you suck. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member You should buy this. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Prison-A-Go-Go! is about 35% funny and 65% stupid. But part of the stupidity is purposeful, I think. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member I have to admit, this is one of the funniest spoof films I have ever seen. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A woman (Laurie Walton) infiltrates a female prison to find out what happened to her missing sister.
      Rating
      R (Crude and Sexual Content|Violence|Language)
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 27, 2003, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Aug 4, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 25m