The Ridiculous 6 (2015) User Reviews (291)

Classic Happy Madison Film

[ThePiousPatriot · 6/10 · 16 April 2016]

I've noticed that there are quite a few people out there giving this movie a bad review. At first, I couldn't understand why. After thinking about it, I realized that these are not fans of Happy Madison Films. There are people that noticed names like, Harvey Keitel and Dan Patrick, and thought that this was some blockbuster film or something. Then, after watching it, they leave a bad review here because they found the film to be "goofy" or "stupid funny" and not much else.

HELLO! There are plenty of Happy Madison films out there, going back as early as the 90's! You didn't know this was going to be a goof fest?

For fans of Happy Madison Films, this movie is exactly what you'd expect. A ton of laughs and a good time, with a tiny bit of poking fun at the "Western Films" genre. Not too much though. I'm a fan of Westerns, and I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Compared to other Happy Madison films, it's no Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison, but it's up there.

With that being said, it is what it is. It's a Happy Madison Film. Although I love these types of movies, they don't garner more than 6 stars...... unless they're Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison. In my opinion that is.

If you're looking for a good time and lots of laughs, you've found the right film. Who knew Taylor Lautner could play such a hilarious role?

Adam Sandler doing Adam Sandler

[joshuaDee · 6/10 · 11 December 2015]

I'll start by saying I grew up on Adam Sandler movies... I know some people don't care for his type of comedy or even some of his more dramatic roles. I cherished the 90's cult classics like Bily Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, etc. I liked Punch, Drunk, Love. I even shamefully liked Spanglish. I know, I know.

I'm a generation X'er, which may or may not be relevant to my appreciation for Sandler. But his comedy was revolutionary at the time. It brought something different to the table. Slap-happy. Stupid. Whatever you want to call it. Albeit, dumb. It was different and unique.

Now, the cast... Wow. You've got the supporting cast that made Sandler movies great. Rob Schneider, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, John Tuturro. They had some mildly funny jokes during the movie. Most of the jokes were ridiculous and just plain childish. But I think that's half the appeal of Happy Madison movies. The cameos were random. But in my opinion, really pulled the movie together. Watching Vanilla Ice play Mark Twain was entertaining and even surprisingly funny and spot on. I mean, he scarily resembled Mark Twain. Blake Shelton playing Wyatt Earp.. Not sure who's idea that was, but it was actually entertaining as well and I think kind of matched his personality.

The plot was just okay. But really, what are we expecting? True Grit plot line? No, it's a comedy. Half the fun is the ride. The only thing I couldn't spin my head around was the fact that Adam Sandler didn't have many jokes. Seemed like everybody got the funny lines except Sandler. Unless the 'mystical' powers were all the jokes. In which case, I didn't find all too funny. After watching Pixels and Grown Up's 2, I've realized that Sandler's films are morely aimed at the younger kids now. I know I'm probably late to the party on that one, but I'm always hoping Sandler will reprise his somewhat crude humor. I even thought he was coming back to that with Funny People. I think that's just how Hollywood budgets and movies work. Financiers know people are going to pay money to watch Will Ferrell look like an "in over his head" dummy. Just like a Seth Rogen movie is going to have a lot of pot humor or Tyler Perry dressing up as a woman. People know what they're getting into before previewing. This may be why it's on Netflix.. Who knows, I don't.

If you're looking for a goofy movie the family can watch with very minor swearing, an occasional motorboat, and some borderline racial epithets, then you should be safe. I will give it to the casting crew for actually hiring Native Americans to play Native American characters. Seems like that's still a real problem in Hollywood, surprisingly. Didn't seem as some folks would say, whitewashed. Sandler did have a super tan going on. But, that's probably apart of the character living amongst native tribes. Who knows, probably just making a bigger deal than it really is, like many people and organizations are doing these days. No need to boycott the movie or anything people! And although I did say there were minor racial blah blah blahs. The movie made a point to go after everybody(races). Get over it people! Cheese-zest! I find it funny that the folks complaining of racism in the movie and walked off set, walked back on a day later to finish shooting and collect their paycheck. Please people, stop trying to kill satires. Even if they're not that funny.

I probably wouldn't watch it again. But I wouldn't tell somebody not to watch it. It's all silliness you'd expect in a Happy Madison picture.

The movie was a very sooooooft six.

Enjoyable

[rubishaccount · 6/10 · 13 December 2015]

Watched this through netflix - I liked not having to go to cinema to watch it - don't think it needs the big screen for special effects, sound or big expansive shots. Enjoyed the laughs. Storyline was good enough, not great - really just a vehicle for funnies. Enjoyed watching Taylor L act a completely different character. Some of the mushie bits and the few slap stick body part grotesque scenes were too cringey for me.

Over all enjoyable with quotable parts. There's so many movies out now but few that I find are more than mediocre - this one just pips over mediocre mark :)

A whole lotta 'meh'

[Meatball_McGee · 5/10 · 12 December 2015]

There's two kinds of Netflix programming: the stuff you watch regularly and intently, like Netflix's ongoing series, and then the stuff you just sort of have playing in the background as you do other stuff. The Ridiculous Six falls into the second category.

Some Sandler movies are just flat out awful. But Ridiculous Six manages to be mildly amusing at times. It's impossible to buy Sandler as a bad-ass Indian tracker, but that's probably the point. You've probably never seen Taylor Lautner or Jorge Garcia like this before--but whereas Garcia is pretty funny as a mumbling moon-shine- making hillbilly, Lautner as a simpleton just gets grating after awhile. Also, somewhat surprisingly, the funniest guy out of the six is Rob Schneider, whose Mexican character manages to steal every scene he's in. Terry Crews and Luke Wilson are just there and don't really add much to the proceedings.

The best parts of the movies are Will Forte's bumbling band of one-eyed bandits and the cameos--seriously, some of these cameos are just flat out awesome. Particularly a couple cameos that occur during a poker scene.

Chances are good if you're a Sandler/Happy Madison fan, you'll enjoy this.

This is ridiculous times 6 :)

[osj2507 · 2/10 · 11 December 2015]

I have seen many Adam Sandler movies, but I'm afraid the humor is not what it used to be or my taste is just changing. I like many of his movies also the more realistic and dramatic roles, but with the comedies it has come down to silly and strange characters that are just acting out on camera, sometimes it seems like they get to improvise and if it is silly enough they use it in the film :)

There really are a lot of great cast members in this and they all play crazy characters, it is fun to get introduced to the one crazy son of a b.... after another, they are as stated all crazy, maybe a bit too much. It is however strange that so many talented people can join this slapstick humor comedy and it isn't just a bit more fun to watch. We are talking the good old Rob Schneider, David Spade, Steve Buscemi and John Tuturo, we expect them to be part of a Happy Madison production, then there are all the others, the extras, the "cameos" and it is a lot of people Taylor Lautner, Terry Crews, Nick Nolte, Danny Trejo, Luke Wilson, Steve Zahn, Will Forte, Jorge Garcia, Blake Shelton, Vanilla Ice and many many more. It is a crazy crew, but for me none of all these did make this a good movie.

There were a lot of childish jokes a lot of slap stick humor, some things worked, but mostly it was just not good enough, I don't know maybe I just expected too much, but it could have been just a little more fun.

How Do These Get Made?

[mbeallo-78462 · 1/10 · 14 December 2015]

I very rarely take the time to review movies, but I had to put in my two cents' worth on this one. I should start by saying that I'm not a big Adam Sandler fan. I don't dislike him, I generally just don't like his movies. A few exceptions would be 50 First Dates, which I liked, and Click and The Wedding Singer, which weren't bad.

But this movie . . . Wow! Did anyone at Netflix read the script before they green-lighted it? I cannot imagine anything worse, even if they had intended to make a bad movie.

Apparently Mel Brooks said something about this movie in relationship to Blazing Saddles, saying that Sandler's movie couldn't touch Brooks' classic film. Boy, was he right. You want to see a great comedy Western? Put on Blazing Saddles again.

Not that bad - mix of lol and crude

[phd_travel · 7/10 · 24 January 2016]

Alternately laugh out loud and very low brow crude jokes, I kind of enjoyed about 60% of this Netflix comedy by Adam Sandler. It's not as consistently funny as "A Million Ways to Die in the West" but it has it's moments. Some jokes are funny then there are some very bad jokes that fall flat. But the good jokes are enough to make this comedy worth one watch. The location filming in New Mexico is highly scenic.

Each one of the comedians is good. Surprisingly Taylor Lautner is very funny as the halfwit. Looks like he can do comedy from now on. Rob Schneider is good as the half Mexican. Nick Nolte is suited to his role as father to the band of half brothers.

There was some controversy about portrayal of Apaches but I don't think it's warranted. They were not portrayed in a negative light rather the opposite.

Worth one watch.

Awful

[brennigjones · 1/10 · 12 December 2015]

I have had so much more fun having root canal.

This is the first film I've seen where the stunt crew worked harder than the writers.

Maybe it's a cultural thing, and there are people in foreign countries who would find it funny?

But I doubt that.

If I could give this film 0 stars, I would.

I have to award it one star as a minimum, and at one star The Ridiculous 6 is punching waaaaaaay above its weight.

Awful.

Exactly As You Expect

[phlewfy · 7/10 · 11 December 2015]

Anyone who was expecting a great film going into this one is a complete tool. This is not a great piece of art, but it is funny. I was a big fan of Sandler movies in the 90s and lost all interest in the 2000s. Have not watched any of his movies since Little Nicky, but I thought "what the hell?" and gave Ridiculous Six a look. Not the greatest thing I've ever seen but was not expecting it to be. I can honestly say I enjoyed this movie. For all those reviewers who are skewering it for being stupid, don't think too hard. It's a farce and farces are generally farcical. So if you are looking for a couple of laughs and are not looking for Lawrence of Arabia, The Ridiculous Six is worth a viewing. Did I love it? No. Was it a brilliant masterpiece of American cinema? No. Will I watch it again? Maybe. It was certainly more entertaining than 90% of the crap you troglodytes lap up at the box office.

Another Sandler flick that made me angry instead of making me laugh.

[jscotthobby · 1/10 · 17 December 2015]

More of the same garbage from Adam Sandler. This abomination has the same thing nearly all his other movies have had: humor that only eight, nine and maybe ten-year-old boys would (should) think was hilarious. Problem is, much of it is not AT ALL appropriate for that age range -- undoubtedly this would be, deservedly, PG-13 in theaters had Netflix not picked it up.

It is stunning to me that his movies rake in so much cash, and that so many bonafide actors (Keitel, Buscemi, Zahn, etc) agree to be in them. And I like Dan Patrick has a sports personality -- but come on ... these movies hurt your brand sir. Bad look.

So it's come to this: I honestly believe that if not for the normal bodily functions of humans (and animals of course) for Sandler to make fun of -- over and over and over again in this, and about all of his movies, he'd be a broke joke remembered mostly for his okay SNL skits from 25 years ago.

A truly awful movie that I couldn't get but about half-way through it was so bad.

One star out of 10.

i liked it, sod it

[gamertrashed-4323 · 8/10 · 28 June 2016]

If you took this seriously I really feel sorry for you. Yes Adam Sandler isn't the best but in all honesty, why are you still watching him in the first place? There must be some sort of draw to him. Kind of like how most people feel with Nicholas Cage. there must be some kind of redeeming factor.

Anyway I personally loved it. Granted I like a lot of terrible movies. I just really really liked this as far as Adam Sandler movies go. Basically put, if you like Adam Sandler at all here and there, give this movie a go. If not, then why are you reading this review of it in any way, shape or form. It gets my recommendation as far as dumb comedies go. That is all. Gbye m8s.

Not bad. Sandler has done much worse.

[spmact · 7/10 · 12 December 2015]

I loved Sandler in his heyday, with comedies like Billy Madison, Waterboy, Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates, You Don't Mess With The Zohan etc., but have been disappointed in his offerings as of late (Grown ups 1/2, Jack & Jill, Blended etc.). This one wasn't bad, however.

If you don't like Sandler's comedy, then why would you watch this? It's a silly comedy with silly jokes (there are some poop/fart jokes, but it's not all like that), but my brother and I got some good laughs while watching this together. The baseball scene was pretty dumb, but the rest of the movie was decent.

It's not Sandler's best, but not his worst at all. It was worth the watch, especially considering that it was "free" with a Netflix subscription.

Bottom line, if you like Sandler's comedies, you'll like this. Just don't take it too seriously. It's better than most of his recent disappointing films.

Not as bad as it could be and sure not as fun as it wants to be

[Krissz · 4/10 · 11 December 2015]

Well first off, I don't like Adam Sandler movies...or rather: most of his movies are pretty dumb and a few are descent comedies. With Ridiculous 6 he has made a rather weird thing. It is both an almost good movie and really horrible.

The big problem for this movie is that it is supposed to be a comedy. A classic Adam Sandler Comedy with his trusted friend Rob Schneider (a person i have always hated), farts and a bunch of weird characters. See, I don't find this movie very funny! Yes it has its moments and it has some great characters (more on that) but all in all I didn't find it funny. Most of the beginning I was thinking of just see something else because the jokes was just poorly delivered or just to weird and unfunny.

That whole eye-joke was just disgusting! I could not see the point in that joke and the same with the shitting Burro. Is a donkey with diarrhea really a good place to start your movie?

Further it lacked any sort of motivation for the characters. Yes they hear about their dad...but meeting a guy that out of the blue Tells you he is your brother and he wants to help your dad by robbing people, is that motivation enough? OF COURSE NOT!

These brothers could have been e.g. hurt by Frank e.g. If he had shot Chicos finger off so he was a bad piano-player or that he was responsible for Herms lack of speech. This would make them have a grudge against him and a reason why they would find him themselves to settle the score when Tommy showed up. It feels a bit undeveloped and makes the first half rather bad.

This is actually the bad things i have to say about the movie. The rest is actually good.

The movie is, in some way, a descent western. Surprisingly enough it works better off when not trying to be funny and let the characters act as if they were in a western rather than a comedy. The story works, despite the lack of motivation, and gets to be just as every other western. When they begin their heist and the bad guys chase after them the movie feels more serious and less as a comedy.

it sounds stupid, but It is not trying too hard to be funny, it actually gets to be funny when it just lets the story play out. Steve Buchemi and Vanilla Ice makes some great cameos. They get to play their roles perfectly and gets just enough space to make the scenes funny. These great cameos gets to play out their scenes with no real interruption by fart jokes or other horrible things and it actually helps making Rob Schneider likable and, do I dare say it, funny at times!

This is actually why I like the movie in the end. despite its problem with being weird and unfunny in the first half, it ends with being more of a western and a bit more serious. I heard someone mention that Sandler tried to make this movie for about ten years. This could be the reason why it is not a typical Sandler comedy. It seems like a combination of projects as he was split between making a total comedy like Seths "A Million Ways To Die In The West" and a spoof of Tarantinos upcoming "The Hateful Eight" but mixed them together because of constant rewriting.

So all in all it actually ends at 4. Not as fun as it wants to be but not as bad as it could be.

A badly structured series of unfunny episodic sketches

[The_Film_Cricket · 15 December 2015]

It occurs to me that the worst thing that can ever happen to a comedian is to reach a point at which the general audience moves from "What has happened to you?" to the lower depths of "How do you keep getting work?" Such is the commentary on Adam Sandler whose recent spate of disastrous press over his summer box office comedy Pixels have finally given his money men a wake up call that the theaters for his movies are basically empty. Why they didn't catch on to this – I don't know – 12 movies ago is beyond me.

Personally, I've never liked Sandler, even during his heyday on SNL. Yes, he sold albums and was a box office star, but he grated on my nerves. His persona reminds me of that irritating kid in English class who sat behind me and made duck noises with his arm pits while amusing himself with annoying voices. In his movies it's the same idea; the only difference is that on the screen he's getting paid $20 million for it.

Sandler is not without talent. Under the direction of Paul Thomas Anderson he turned in a brilliant comic performance in Punch Drunk Love a decade ago, and more recently with Russian-born animator Genndy Tartakovsky they made Hotel Transylvania. Good pictures. Yet, he refuses to follow that same trail, and recently he has famously been using his company Happy Madison to fund movie projects so he and his friend can take trips to places he wants to go, like Africa (Blended), Las Vegas (Paul Blart 2) and Toronto (Pixels) and Hawaii (Just Go With It). Fine, but the result is that he stick his audience with movies that are destroying his already shaky reputation.

Now realizing that the movie theater is no longer a viable option to his laziness he has now taken his cinematic indifference to Netflix for a planned four-picture deal. The move does nothing to improve the quality. Entering into his first Netflix venture, a laughless chunk of indifference called The Ridiculous 6, did not fill me with confidence especially with reports that the movie was so offensive that a handful of the Native American actors simply walked off the set. I get that, but I don't find it offensive to the Native American culture so much as movies in general.

The plot is more or less superfluous. It's a parody, I guess, of every western movie from Dances With Wolves and Unforgiven all the way back to A Man Called Horse about a half-Indian man dealing his dual identity. Sandler plays White Knife, a saddle-sore who was raised by Apaches and learned superhuman fighting skills. His white father Frank Stockburn (Nick Nolte) goes missing and that puts him in contact with his five brothers: Chico (Terry Crews), Herm (Jorge Garcia), Lil' Pete (Taylor Lautner), Ramon (Rob Schneider), and Danny (Luke Wilson). That's a thin line on which to hang jokes that are either gross (one character is nicknamed "Beaver Breath") or just plain baffling – the opening credits called this The Ridiculous 6 – in 4K! What? I don't even get it.

If that didn't tickle your funny bone then the rest of the movie will leave you in stone faced indifference. We get a burro who projectile defecates. We get an extended gag in which a man scoops out his own eyeball. There's Vanilla Ice playing Mark Twain. There's one character so dumb that he thinks that babies are defecated out their mother's womb. Blake Shelton shows up as Wyatt Earp for no reason. There's baffling gag in which a man is stabbed in the leg with a carrot, which comes right after the appearance of a gang of thugs so tough that they have each removed their right eyeballs – that's funny, right? Meanwhile I sat through this movie with the strange urge to do the same thing (it has that effect on you).

And right in the middle of all this is Adam Sandler who manages to sleepwalk through this movie with a measure of indifference that made me depressed over the fact that he was getting paid. If I did that on my job, I'd be fired. His character isn't consistent – one minute he has an accent and the next minute he doesn't. Sandler's line-readings sound like he's reading from cue cards and then gives up halfway through. There's no joy of performance. He doesn't care. His scenes are lazy and unfunny and give you the basic urge to be anywhere else.

What he and his team have created here is not satire; it's a badly structured series of unfunny episodic sketches that feel like they were written by a 12 year-old with ADD. As the Native American stereotypes, I wouldn't worry so much about that because if you culled everyone who could find offense in this movie (whites, blacks, latinos, women) we'd be here all day – I guess you could call it an equal opportunity offender. I spent 119 minutes with this movie and another half hour writing this review. That's 149 minutes out of my life that I am never going to get back. You just spent 10 minutes out of your life reading this review. That's 10 minutes out of your life that you're not going to get back. Sorry about that.

Up in the list of most terrible films I've ever seen.

[sweeney-liam · 1/10 · 12 December 2015]

This film is truly terrible.

Firstly, let's talk about the script. There is not one ounce of wit or intelligence in the humour here. It's actually so stupid that it constantly borders on racist, even for somebody with a less PC centre. The jokes feel like they're from the '90s, before deliberate political incorrectness was swapped for subtlety and charm. It's like watching a film being released 20 years after it was made. This film is NOT funny. Maybe if you're below the age of 12 or you've never watched a good comedy you'll find it amusing. There are three nipple jokes, poo jokes and a hoard of cheap modern jokes that don't fit in with the time-period, completely bringing you out of the story every time they're spoken.

As could be expected from an Adam Sandler film, the acting is dreadful. There's no attempt from the actors to provide something more than what the script reads, and everyone plays the blandest characters they possibly could.

I don't think this movie warrants much more than that. If you have any taste. Don't watch it.

There are no words...

[Prof68 · 1/10 · 11 December 2015]

To describe just how incredibly bad this movie is. Seriously...what was Netflix thinking when they gave the green light to this horrible piece of dreck? You know the kind of movie you start watching and about half an hour in you realize just how incredibly bad it is but you figure you're this far in so you might as well see it through? Yeah that is this movie.

From horrible dialogue to incredibly offensive stereotypes (and this is coming from someone who loathes being pc) this movie has just about everything you can think of to dislike in a movie.

Sandler brings along his usual companions in this one (Buscemi, Schneider...Vanilla Ice(???)) but even that (formerly) funny bunch cannot save...this.

Terrible

[sudc · 1/10 · 14 December 2015]

This has to be an all time low for Adam Sandler, I get that this is a parody but this doesn't even fall into the category of parody. Complete garbage and a waist of effort. The sad thing is that Sandler has a terrific cast to do something quite funny but instead rehashes old jokes and scenes from his former films. The whole film Sandler seems to be on autopilot. Taylor Lautner's "try hard retard" act should have ended up on the cutting room floor(BAD). I will stop now before it get's nasty. I think Sandler needs to go back to his roots and do some serious soul searching and try to redeem himself after this failure. BOO BOO BOO

Silly but funny

[neil-476 · 7/10 · 30 March 2016]

White Knife was born Tommy Stockburn, but was raised by the Apaches after his mother was murdered. Having encountered his natural father, he has to raise money in order to ransom him. In the course of this, he discovers that he has a number of half-brothers, and they join him on his quest.

The synopsis of this Netflix original sounds like a standard traditional western: this Adam Sandler vehicle is anything but. A large and stellar cast joins Sandler on his quest, and take pleasure in making themselves look foolish as they deliver an indiscriminate barrage of humour: sight gags, poo gags, anachronism gags, genre spoofing gags, even the occasional witty gag.

This film made me laugh more than it should have, probably, and there were three things I liked in particular.

One, it made me care about the characters. Two, Sandler played the central character absolutely straight. Three, Taylor Lautner was a revelation as dim-witted brother little Pete. I've had little time for him as teen hunk, but he is hysterical in this.

I loved it.

Ridiculous Describe it

[papagorgio-96624 · 1/10 · 14 December 2015]

Ridiculous describes the film. I wasn't expecting much when coming into watching the film, but I was still disappointed. Adam Sandler takes his humor to a new low, making stale jokes that aren't even funny if you are breathing laughing gas. The film has very little real entertainment value, other than how low Sandler's career has fallen. 6 brothers who have nothing in common, other than they are all stereotypes of slow, rob banks to save their father they don't even know. Nick Noltes career has also fallen that this is what he is now playing as an actor. It had a good cast of funny-men, but they just weren't funny. The misogynistic film, seems like it was something that would be the comic book doodlings of a ********. (fill in the blank, almost anything works)

Sandler humor meets blazing saddles

[draciron · 7/10 · 11 December 2015]

This is not your usual Adam Sandler movie. In fact it is in some ways a kind of tribute to blazing saddles. Much of the same kind of humor in both movies. The premise is of course ridiculous, the acting ridiculous, the action is ridiculous, that is kind of the point. It's just good fun. It's what happens when you get a lot of veteran actors together and let them go wild.

It was fun seeing many of these actors in the same movie. Even if some were just making cameos. Reminds me a lot of Mel Brooks but with a 2000s flair and references.I have run out of things to say but the line checker nazi robot from hell has deemed my review too short. Thus I shall wax on, wax off about absolutely nothing for a line or two to appease the nazi robot line checker.

Adam is losing it...

[jamessmillsart · 1/10 · 11 February 2021]

This movie was not a comedy but a pathetic tragedy; Adam Sandler used to be very funny. But sadly he is losing it--in my opinion. His scripts are quite pathetic. Dumbing down of Americans. There is funny--and there is "losing it" This is the later.

Ridiculous yes, funny yes, bad no

[dclawrence · 8/10 · 24 May 2016]

This movie was funny. It had everything from slapstick humor, ridiculous humor, and reference to other movie humor, to toilet humor. It had a full plot that played out and was completed by the end of the movie. I really don't understand the hate for this film other than Adam Sandler must have made someone angry somewhere. This movie will never be a classic, but it's worth watching and will probably end up being a cult classic. Also, I got a lot of respect for Taylor Lautner in this film. Yes, he plays a goof ball character, but its a new direction for him. He gets to try something new and different from the same old character he has always played before. And.. he does a great job.

I found it funny, actually!

[bellino-angelo2014 · 7/10 · 5 December 2021]

I heard a lot about THE RIDICULOUS 6 because it's among Adam Sandler's lowest rated movies and also for its stellar cast. Two weeks ago I finally sat down and watched it, and I was impressed that I liked it more than what I was led to believe thanks to the score and reviews.

Tommy Stockburn (Adam Sandler) is a white man raised by indians that after defeating a gang of one-eyed bandits and food store owner Clem (Steve Zahn) is visited by Frank Stockburn (Nick Nolte) who claims to be his father and that he left as his inheritance (since he is dying of tubercolosis) 50,000 dollars. However, a gang led by Cicero (Danny Trejo) kidnaps Frank and Tommy decides to retrieve 50,000 dollars by himself for saving his father. During his adventure Tommy will meet 5 other sons of Stockburn each born from a different woman (Rob Schneider, Taylor Lautner, Terry Crews, Luke Wilson and Jorge Garcia) that will help him in having the money, but not without some trouble by the aforementioned one-eyed gang and with various crazy characters met along the way. When Frank hopes to get rich with their sons' original money and the newfound money, Tommy will stop him sparing his life. Once in the Indian village Tommy marries the indian girl seen at the beginning.

I tried to explain the plot in the best way possible as there is much more to it. Lots of funny moments, funny cameos by other actors who already worked with Sandler (Jon Lovitz, Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, David Spade, Vanilla Ice), a nifty soundtrack... my favourite moment must have been the one when Keitel has a fight with Wilson in the saloon and after a while he loses his head (for real)! Also the Lincoln flashback came out the blue in a good way.

Don't trust the many negative reviews for this one because I personally found it very funny in some points and I didn't even expected it. And besides, who would have ever guessed that Adam Sandler would have made a Western released straight to Netflix? If you want some funny movie for a lazy evening at home it's worth the ride.

Embarrassing

[robcowater · 1/10 · 17 April 2022]

I dont watch Adam Saddlers movies for deep plots, historical accuracy or anything like that. I watch them because they hit the spot for silly laughs.

This movie was horrible from the first second and never got better. In fact, it was so bad, I'm sure it ended acting careers!

The Ridiculous Waste of Time

[tjgoalie13 · 2/10 · 11 December 2015]

Adam Sandler's straight-to-Netflix film, The Ridiculous 6, represents an even larger fall from grace for the once successful comedian. After seeing the train wrecks that were Grown Ups 2, and That's My Boy I figured Sandler couldn't stoop any lower, I was wrong. The Ridiculous 6 is unfunny, terribly acted, overly silly, dumb, and truly terrible in almost all facets. It seems sad because Sandler is talented, but if he continues making films like this, he can't maintain an audience. Adam Sandler has become increasingly lazy over the last few years, but this film goes beyond that. Ridiculous 6 features an odd type of humor, which is a combination of dumb, silly, and racist. The humor is so stupid, it rarely registers as funny, but often feels like awkward moments of randomness. The film features a ton of cameos, most of them are distracting and not funny, except Vanilla Ice as Mark Twain. The humor was not only dumb, but it was exceedingly silly too. The film's acting is terrible, on every level. Sandler feels like he's mailing in his performance, while Taylor Lautner takes a giant step backwards as an actor. While Rob Schneider, Luke Wilson, and Terry Crewes manage to not come across as distractingly bad, almost every performance is awful. What doesn't help the acting is that the film has almost no story, terrible dialogue, and characters that are just racist stereotypes. It's sad looking at it, because many talented actors appear in the film, but they are all totally wasted. The story of Ridiculous 6 is more a bunch of random situations sloppily put together, built entirely on logical fallacies. Since the story is terribly constructed it feels bloated, and the film drags on. In retrospect the film is really about a half-hour too long. On top of that the film's villains are weak, and thus the film's conflict feels fake, and forced. Really when looking at closely it all comes down to the fact, that the film was lazily constructed. In conclusion The Ridiculous 6 represents a new low for Adam Sandler, who continues to get lazier, and lazier. The film is dumb, silly, racist, boring, not funny, and features a story that is so poorly written a 4 year old could have produced a better story. Hopefully, Sandler feels a negative backlash and finally takes some pride in his work, because he clearly has none now.