The Ridiculous 6
When his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled journey across the Old West with his five brothers.
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- Cast:
- Adam Sandler , Terry Crews , Jorge Garcia , Taylor Lautner , Rob Schneider , Luke Wilson , Will Forte
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
I gave it a 7.5 out of 10
To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
So, I just watched all the Twilight films again with my 13 year old daughter who hadn't seen them yet (team Jacob!!!) and about a week later we watched Ridiculous 6. I just have to say after seeing Taylor Lautner go from hot werewolf to bumpkin half wit western boy, was a total shocker, but also made me respect him soooooo much as an actor! Honestly, to be so diverse like that, and be able to SLAY such a role (team Little Pete!!!) he did an amazing job. He's the last person I would expect to play a character like that, but I love that he took it on and nailed it!! What a treat!! The hanging scene though, I about peed my pants! Lol. I personally love slap stick comedy and enjoy most Adam Sandler movies. This movie is silly and funny and has a super fun star studded cast. I loved Vanilla Ice as Mark Twain and Blake Shelton as Wyatt Earp. Terry Cruz was another one I absolutely adored in this movie, he is so freaking hilarious!! People who are giving bad reviews and claiming it's a racist film need to get their panties out of a wad and loosen up. I cannot believe how easily offended every gets these days. I'm Caucasian and I absolutely died laughing at the part where the Native American pokes fun at white people ... "I like to eat potato chips and play with my chest hair." LOLOLOL. Seriously, lighten up people, have some fun, it's just a movie!!!! You know, make believe? I thought it was well done, super hilarious, very well cast and I'd give it a 20 out of 10 if I could! Make a sequel Adam! The Ridiculous 7, The Ridiculous 8! This could be the start of an epic franchise! Lol. Much love and laughs!
It's an Adam Sandler movie. If you like that silliness (like I do), then you'll enjoy this one too. If you never liked Sandler's work, then this wasn't for you in the first place.
I as a film critic am usually very kind towards Adam Sandler's films. I was able to find enjoyment in movies like Grown Ups, That's My Boy, Pixels (all modern Sandler productions that were critically panned). I did enjoy That's My Boy the most out of those 3 I mentioned because I just have a really f**ked up sense of humor. Other movies of his such as Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison and Bulletproof I find to be comedic gold. However, when it comes to some of his other comedies, that range from mediocre to being god awful! Mediocre ones being films such as Blended, Grown Ups 2, Sandy Wexler. God awful is stuff like The Do-Over, Jack and Jill (which I think is the worst film of the decade so far), and THIS! I hate the entire 119 minute run time of this movie! This movie is far too long, REALLY boring, and unfunny! 85-90 minutes would have been plenty long enough for this movie. Watching this movie for the first time in December 2015, around the 90 minute mark or so, I thought we were at the climax already, but I found out there was another 30 minutes to go! Not once did the comedy in this movie make me laugh. There is almost nothing more terrible than a comedy that doesn't make you laugh. The two good things that I can at least say about this movie is that not all the acting is terrible, and the action scenes can be somewhat entertaining at times. Other than that, this is easily one of the worst things Sandler has ever come out with. If you see it on Netflix, don't press play, you'll never get those 2 hours back.
1974 brought us "Blazing Saddles" and some four decades later, the comedy Western is stood on it's head with a movie so ridiculous it had to be called "The Ridiculous 6". The concept wasn't so bad, but when you get so many Saturday Night Alumni involved in one place at one time, you're just asking for trouble. In addition to principals like Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider, you had cameos from folks like Jon Lovitz (Ezekiel Grant), David Spade (General George Custer), Chris Kattan (John Wilkes Booth) and Norm MacDonald (a customer at the Golden Nuggets). If I missed any I apologize, they kept popping up at such a furious pace it was hard to keep track.There's some funny stuff going on in the story to be sure, but the film is brought down a considerable notch with the vulgar humor and the burro who couldn't help itself whenever he broke wind. In his case, he kept breaking mini-mud storms, if you know what I mean, and once would have been enough but the writers just couldn't help themselves. Stuff like that just panders to the lowest common denominator.I had to laugh when Frank Stockburn (Nick Nolte) turned bad guy against son Tommy/White Knife (Sandler) and the rest of his boys, explaining how one should "Never bring a knife to a gunfight". It sounded like something President Obama once said, though it's doubtful he ever found himself in a compromising position in Jawbone Falls, Sweet Hog Rock or Rattler's Gulch. At least the screenwriters got the chronology correct for the characters they introduced in cameo parts, like Mark Twain, Wyatt Earp, George Custer and Abner Doubleday.You know, John Ford and John Wayne have to be spinning in their graves with this absurdist take on the Western genre. You can pretty much bet they never came across a formation in Monument Valley like the penis rock the Ridiculous Ones found in Silver Canyon. All in all, I'd have to say that using the term 'ridiculous' in the title takes some of the edge off what one might otherwise expect in a film like this, because it's all of that. And just to show you how ridiculous the movie really is, the actor portraying Mark Twain is Vanilla Ice. Can you get any more ridiculous than that?