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In 85, we had Night Patrol, Moving Violations, and this. All I can say is thank god we have Jeff Altman, the film's only saving grace. Altman is a door to door salesman, caught in the wrong house in the wrong bed with the wrong woman who screams rape. This hot middle aged philly at first lures Altman to the bedroom, so you can probably imagine, just how angry he feels when he ends up in the clink, amongst some well known faces, like John Vernon and JJ from good times, amidst other comedy stars of this 8O's type. The philly gets her just desserts later in a funny scene. You'll get the pun when you see it. In this insane prison, run by an evil warden, Mulligan, it actually turns out to be a real fun environment, where eggs are cooked on electric chairs, rock bands perform and the prisoners have their own t.v. station. Jeff Altman adds his own funny parts too, his full body inspection farting scene is good. But Doin' Time is a pretty weak comedy, and runs third place to the other comedies. A lot of intentional funny moments fall flat on their face. I like the prison band, the lead singer singing I'm all f..ked up instead of shook up, raised a few laughs, where there's a far and a few between. Also Judy Landers flashing her two prized assets in front of Mulligan, in his office, getting him so hot, he has to make a few runs to the bathroom is another funny scene. But this film is just a weak effort. I watched this film a few times, in most cases, never really getting to the end of it, which I found a hard process. Take my advice. See the other two films mentioned above, before seeing this one. You may have a difference of opinion, but I would be talking about a very small majority here. May'be we should have the film's director do some time, in a non fun environment.

This is a typical 80's romp. Bad music and the like. I watched this for Ali but he's not even in the credits! He shows up for like 10 seconds towards the end. He must have been repaying a mafia bill to be in this movie.

I guess it's supposed to be a wacky comedy, but it's just bad. It's filled with lots of second bananas you'll recognize from Carson and other TV of the time. Jimmy Walker is another. Landers.

To be honest I found myself fast forwarding here and there. That's how bad it was.

"Doin' Time" was handled by the same production outfit that in the previous year gave us "Police Academy". Obviously, the idea was to spoof prison movies in the same way that "Police Academy" spoofed police movies. However, the movie in comparison makes the "Police Academy" sequels look like comedy classics. The movie is a real mess; there's barely any plot, and the shoddy editing shows no clear direction and gives the impression that the filmmakers were making things up as they went along. But the biggest problem is with the humor. The closest the movie gets to generating a laugh is with the Elvis impersonator who sings in front of the prison's parole board, though in the end even that gag fails as much as the other attempts at humor. The other gags in the movie are even more lame as well as unimaginatively conceived and executed. To sum up, this movie is a really cheap and amateurish effort by all involved; even the close- captions for the movie are unprofessionally done! Only for those who want to see John Vernon do a near nude scene.

Typical picture from the mid-eighties after the successful Police Academy this comedy followed the same steps, door-to-door salesman Duke Jarrett (Jeff Altman) gets caught in an adulterous affair with a Governor's wife and is sentenced to death in a jail managed by a muddled Warden and replaced by the hard-line Mongo Mitchell (Richard Mulligan) at the behest of fooled Governor to punish Duke and nullify the leader of Jail Big Mac (John Vernon) who used to command the whole system at own way.

Initially Mongo demands a ward working in a new road nearby that ends up a total failure at the unveiling carried out by Big Mac and the inmates that made a proper entrapment at Governor's car, later Mongo enchants for his gorgeous secretary Nancy Catlett (Colleen Camp) harassing her steadily, thus to avoid Duke be sent to electric chair and they get rid of the vicious Mongo, Big Mac and Duke settle a plan to ridicule him on open TV, they broadcasting it cross-country his sexy night with Nancy where Mongo exposes his weird sexual behavior for everyone tuned on TV.

A kind of sexploitation storyline, inflicting many laughter from the audience, in several funny sequences, a slight tawdry for some, overall a funny entertainment for those less demanding viewers, silly sex-related jokes on countless unsuitable scenes, therefore a little bit controversial offering, nonetheless far away to be bad.

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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: Youtube / Rating: 5.5.

This film was extremely underrated when it was first released back in the 1980's. This movie used to play on HBO many times. I can't believe no one reviewed this film on IMDb previously. Pat McCormick is hysterical as the warden of the jail, who is then replaced by Richard Mulligan. Richard Mulligan is hilarious as Mongo the warden. Jimmy Walker is also funny. The scene on the rock pile where Mike Mazurski tells John Vernon how much he likes him is a gem. The humor is silly low brow stuff, but in any case this film deserves a DVD release. I have it on VHS in an oversize Warner Bros clamshell box still. *** Worth a look.