The Ridiculous 6

"You got your mom's muscles. You a prizefighter?"

"No, actually, I'm a... piano player."

Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn (Sandler) is a white man who was raised by the Apache.  His mother was killed many years ago and he doesn't know his father.  One day a white man shows up at the camp and claims to be Tommy's father.  His name is Frank Stockburn (Nolte) and he is dying.  Frank is also a notorious criminal and his old gang, led by Cicero (Danny Trejo), want their money.  They demand that Frank take them to the money or they will shoot him.

After they leave Tommy vows to help his father and sets out to steal the money.  In the first town he stumbles on a half-brother, Ramon (Schneider) and his burro, who joins his mission.  They find 4 more brothers: half-wit hillbilly Lil Pete (Lautner), mountain man Herm (Garcia), saloon pianist Chico (Crews), and drunk Danny (Wilson), who also want to save their father.  They quickly make a name for themselves as the Ridiculous 6.  Can they stay ahead of the Left Eye Gang and the lawmen and save their father?


In 2015, Adam Sandler and Happy Madison Productions signed a 4 picture deal with Netflix.  This is the first of those films to be distributed exclusively by Netflix.

It is a typical Sandler film.  He is the lead and the cast is filled with his friends/regular co-stars.  The laughs are spotty at best, with the majority of characters majorly unlike-able.  Between the gross-out humor (the burro's "special gifts", the eyeball scene, etc) and the cheap/crass jokes, the film is littered with disappointments.  The script, written by Tim Herlihy and Sandler, is weak and there are too many characters wandering around.  Herlihy has written several Sandler films that run of gamut of really good (Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison) to truly terrible (Little Nicky).  Director Frank Coraci has also worked with Sandler on numerous occasions.  Coraci, Herlihy, and Sandler collaborated on The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy.

The talent there, both behind the scenes and on the screen, but it still doesn't work.  It is ridiculous movie (so at least the title is correct).  It is trying to be a broad satire of western films, but doesn't quite accomplish that.  There is still an audience for this, but I wasn't impressed.

The Ridiculous 6 (2015) 120 minutes
Director: Frank Coraci
Starring: Adam Sandler as Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn
Terry Crews as Chico Stockburn
Jorge Garcia as Herm Stockburn
Taylor Lautner as Lil' Pete Stockburn
Rob Schneider as Ramon Stockburn
Luke Wilson as Danny Stockburn
Nick Nolte as Frank Stockburn
Will Forte as Will
Nick Swardson as Nelly
Steve Zahn as Clem
Julia Jones as Smoking Fox
Lavell Crawford as Gus
Jared Sandler as Babyface
Paul Sado as Stumbles