The Disease That Will Eat Up Hollywood !

Rating: Null/10 (31 December 2009)

I don't hate this movie. I just can't love it!
What's my problem with it? It's simple. It's the same disease that I encounter many times lately in numerous Hollywood movies. And to know a disease, you must define first its symptoms.
It's a remake, so why to lose time searching for new ideas?! And more than this, I've seen it 3 times before already: 2 times from America (The Longest Yard - 1974), (Stir Crazy - 1980). And one more time from England (Mean Machine - 2001).
I waited this time for different and witty material, but there was no respectable effort done; maybe the idea of the rubbery bomb to cool off the prisoners. Some dialogues have been re-used, exactly as they were, again and again from the first movie. The characters weren't real humans to be involved with, or droll cartoon to be interested in. So, generally, I didn't run into something smart or moving, special or memorable.
The first half is the best where the odd characters of the prisoners are shown with a certain characteristic for each one, and a variant reason to hate a certain guard. The second half, the match, got noting solid or more comic. And the end's thrilling scene was forced and idiot.
The main problem though is that when the movie wanted to make comedy, it depended wholly on: penis jokes, feces jokes, butt jokes, sodomy jokes, and naked old woman; no, not jokes, but literally naked old woman; which was the most pathetic and disgusting try to make comedy, before being the most pathetic and disgusting moment here (I was about to puke!). And you know what the worst of all of that is? IT'S SO EASY!
Add to this, Burt Reynolds died since nearly 10 years before this movie was made. I don't know how did they wake up his ghost like this?! Chris Rock is just UNFUNNY, NOT FUNNY, or NONE-FUNNY. Ok, I want to write it by all the known languages on earth! Adam Sandler is in somehow strange land, I thought that they should have hired Bruce Willis instead, otherwise I didn't see clearly why to bring a comic star to undertake un-comic mission, with big physical job as well!
I bet you have guessed by now that the disease that hit this movie, and will eat up Hollywood, is called the easy writing. And if you haven't, re-read the aforementioned, starting with "It's a remake"! Simply with this story, there are endless enjoyable treatments (comical, satirical, musical,.. etc). This is the dumb, little sick, and predictable one. But originally it's another commodity that has to be in market, in time, anyway. Thus it's justified as a natural flaw of swollen industry that wants money, money, money and more money with, or without, making any entertainment along the way. So, it's rapidly written, rapidly shown, and rapidly forgotten too!
I liked: Only some moments for that director. The fact that this movie didn't get to use one fart joke (Strange! It's in the manual?!). And, make no mistake, the chance finally to see Chris Rock getting killed in a movie. I'm not that violent to have fun out of that in itself, but it should be fun whenever Rock's violent presence and comedy wouldn't continue till the end of a movie!