Story that is not realistic at all but fairly test book in terms of a good comedy.

Rating: 7/10 (23 October 2012)

This film is just about as average of a comedy as you can get, I say this but I still really enjoyed it as a film, but I was still left a lot of the time spent wandering why the inmates were getting away with so much. As much as it is a good comedy, the fundamentals of realism is what really stops this film from showing more strife in the characters and therefore being a better player.
Some of the main annoyances were small things such as Captain Knauer saying that he ran the place at the very beginning but we didn't really see him for much of the rest of the film, instead all the spotlight was on showing small little actions that forced the inmates to was to fight the guards so much, which was kind of irritating to watch as mainly they were small little actions.
The other main thing I hate about this film is Caretakers death, firstly he doesn't really take of anything much until after his death, and secondly why did they have to kill him off as the team were a little sad when for some odd reason they buried him on the same day of his death without his beloved family being present, and then the team was over it by the next day, making his death fairly irrelevant, which was a shame as he was the lovable sidekick for much of the film.
However I did love the idea of the team coming together to defy the odds but it did have a real sense of chance and the storyline itself is highly unbelievable, however you have to expect this when you see this movie due to its nature. For once I though Adam Sandler was actually kind of the right person for the job as he was laid back and this made sense due to his history but still I felt he could have acted a little more and so he could have had a bit more of a transformation by the end.
All in all I liked this film as a light hearted comedy, but if you do watch it just look out for the trillions of little irritating errors in this film that by the end make it kind of irritating.