The Ridiculous 6

Plot synopsis:
In the Old West era, a calm man named Tommy Stockburn (Sandler) is raised by Native Americans, where he is named "White Knife", due to his tendency to use knives. He is due to marry a Native girl named Smoking Fox (Jones). He has a run-in with a gang of bandits with eye patches on their right eyes, led by Will Patch (Forte), and manages to outsmart them and a deranged, Native American-racist food proprietor named Clem (Zahn), whose left eye is badly dysfunctional. At his Native village a bank robber named Frank Stockburn (Nolte) comes by, claiming to be Tommy's biological father. Tommy explains to Frank that his mother was shot by a silhouetted man with tattoos on his hand when she was escorting him to school during his childhood, something that has haunted his dreams since. Frank also tells Tommy that he is dying of consumption, but that he has amassed $50,000 and buried it in a meadow next to a pine tree, which he offers to Tommy and the Natives. The next day, a group of bandits with connections to Frank come to the village, led by the ruthless Cicero (Trejo) who want Frank to give them his "big score" he gained a while back. Frank has the bandits kidnap him so he can lead them to the $50,000 at the so-called "Singing Windmill", in return for the bandits not attacking Tommy or the Indians. With no time to search the meadow and find the money, Tommy decides he must find another way to obtain it and save his father.
Tommy sets out on his quest to regain his father and decides that the best way to gain enough money is by stealing it. However, because his tribe does not condone theft and claims it is dishonorable, Tommy instead opts to steal from those who have no honor, leading him to target corrupt politicians, racist bankers, and thugs alike. During his quest, Tommy discovers that he has 5 half-brothers; Mexican burro rider Ramon (Schneider), whose innkeeper mother Frank had a fling with; mentally challenged yet happy-go-lucky Lil' Pete (Lautner), who has a strong neck that makes him immune to hanging; feral mountain-man Herm (Garcia), who speaks incomprehensibly; guilt-ridden drunkard Danny (Wilson), who served as a bodyguard for Abraham Lincoln until accidentally leading John Wilkes Booth to murder him; and African-American saloon pianist Chico (Crews), who confesses to be only 50 percent white; all of which join Tommy. Meanwhile, Clem joins the eye patch gang in hopes of finding Tommy to take revenge on him after Clem removes his only functional eye (since the other eye patch wearers claim that removing the right eye is part of the gang's way) before they kidnap Tommy's fiancee, though she manages to escape them due to Clem's poor eyesight and heads out to find Frank. When meeting Chico and Danny, they run with Chico's boss: the aggressive, always smiling saloon owner Smiley Harris (Keitel), who was part of Frank's gang until Frank stole his cut of their biggest score and left him to die at the windmill. He owns a large golden nugget the brothers steal after Ramon, while riding his burro, accidentally decapitates Smiley with a shovel from behind just as he is about to shoot the brothers as revenge against Frank for his betrayal, though Ramon was only trying to knock him out.
While relaxing in a pond, Clem and the eye patch gang show up and while the brothers manage to overpower them, the gang manage to steal the money the brothers stole. Hope isn't lost for the brothers, as Herm (through Tommy's translation) tells them that a gambler named Ezekiel Grant (Lovitz) is hosting a gambling game with Mark Twain (Vanilla Ice) and General George Armstrong Custer (Spade) in Yuma. After successfully robbing the poker game, they head out to ransom their father. As dusk falls, Tommy realizes (through a photograph carried by Danny) that it was Cicero who murdered his mother. Not wanting to put his brothers in harm's way, Tommy sets out alone in the cover of night to rescue his father and confront his mother's killer. After paying the ransom, Cicero decides to part ways but Tommy insists on getting his revenge. Having successfully killed Cicero, the half-brothers (who followed Tommy) have a reunion with their long lost father. Realizing that Tommy's group now have $100,000 after rescuing the Left-Eye Gang and getting their original $50,000, Frank double crosses them, revealing that he was in cahoots with Cicero for an easy $50,000. Tommy then reveals that their group also has a Plan B: a hidden bomb inside the bag containing the ransom money. When the bomb explodes and commotion ensues, Frank runs off with Smoking Fox (whom his group has been holding hostage) inside a mine. Tommy runs after them and successfully rescues his bride-to-be and captures his father. Also, in the process of the fighting, the Left-Eye Gang accidentally reveal that they lied about removing their right eyes, much to Clem's outrage.
Back in the Native Village, Tommy weds Smoking Fox with his brothers in attendance. Since the revelation that their biological father Frank Stockburn was no more than a two-bit crook, the Native chief decides to adopt the half-brothers as he did with Tommy.

Tags: revenge

Review:
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.
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..
Alternately laugh out loud and very low brow crude jokes, I kind of enjoyed about 60% of this Netflix comedy by Adam Sandler.
Political correctness is taking over the world and people can no longer just kick back and have a good laugh at some corny, but very amusing, jokes and visual humour.I admit it: I am an Adam Sandler fan.
It has a great cast, with all the old Sandler buddies popping up and we get some great cameos from other stars of film and music.The jokes are mostly big hits.
Blake Shelton's Wyatt Earp, along with Jon Lovitz, David Spade and Vanilla Ice form a crazy poker crew.Seriously, do not bother reading the reviews or paying any attention to the score here (4.9 as i write this), just watch the movie.
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....
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..
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.
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.
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.
The great actors that keep showing up like Nick Nolte, John Turturo, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, etc, all very funny in their own way, are what make this comedy special.
Adam Sandler looks and talks like Bob Dylan and his character Tommy, has the style of Dylan, so throughout the movie I had a feeling I was seeing a Bob Dylan film!
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 brothers are Adam Sandler as "Tommy" aka "White Knife", Terry Crews as "Chico", Jorge Garcia as "Herm", Taylor Lautner as "Lil Pete", Rob Schneider as "Ramon", and Luke Wilson as "Danny".
Sure, this movie isn't winning any academy awards and haters are gonna hate, but sorry haters, Adam Sandler is laughing all the way to the bank with this one!!
I think the viewer has to appreciate Adam Sandler movies to understand where this comedy is coming from.
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.
Adam Sandler has been making movies for over 20 years now, yet even with this extensive body of work to draw on, the self-proclaimed film connoisseurs and cinema "artistes" still feel the need to fumble at the jaw to proclaim how awful he is...
Bottom line, if you've seen the Magnificent 7 (or even if you haven't) and have even the slightest soft spot for Sandler's brand of simple, dumb humor, you should enjoy this movie.
Unlike most of the IMDb reviewers here, Sandler has no pretensions, but delivers fun, enjoyable, and yes - at time dumb humor with a heart.
I don't normally like movies with Adam Sandler.
The beginning had one or two bad joke, but it definitely improves I thought the movie was fun, made me laugh at times.
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..
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.
Netflix has signed a four-movie deal with Sandler, but after The Ridiculous 6's incomparably negative reactions from critics and audiences forced the streaming company to minimize its prominence on the film's site, I assume the forthcoming three pictures will be released to the public with a lot more four-letter words mumbled under CEO Reed Hastings' breath as he cuts his losses and moves forward accordingly.The Ridiculous 6 is an atrocious film, but atrocious in an unsurprising way, frankly.
Frank also reveals to Tommy that he has $50,000 buried in the middle of a field before he is kidnapped by Cicero (Danny Trejo) and held for the hefty ransom.In efforts to rescue his husband, Tommy discovers he also has five half brothers: they are a Mexican donkey-rider named Ramon (Rob Schneider in his ongoing streak of never playing a tolerable character), a giddy, mentally-retarded man named Lil' Pete (Taylor Lautner), the large and feral Herm (Jorge Garcia), a black pianist named Chico (Terry Crews), and Danny (Luke Wilson), Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard who failed to protect him from no one else but John Wilkes Booth.
Together, the gang form "The Ridiculous 6," a bumbling but well-meaning sextet that attempts to find their father all while avoiding dangers such as rebel gangs, Wyatt Earp's (country singer Blake Shelton) sharp-shooting skills, and "Injuns." It seems that both Sandler and Tim Herlihy, the screen writing duo on this project, concocted a list of the most intolerable attributes they could include in a film and haphazardly sewed a film together conjoining those scenes which produced little in the way of a plot.
The strongest actor in the film, playing the most consistently funny and likable character, is Vanilla Ice, who plays Mark Twain in the film's sole good scene involving a staged robbery by the six before Twain, Earp, and a few others.The problem with Western satires is that most of the material is well-charted ground by now: how many more times can we see the eclectic and specific names of Native Americans made fun of, the fact that bumbling white people are uncultured and stole the land from the Natives, or the invention of popular conventions such as baseball that we know today?
Sandler just brings his brand of mindless stupidity to a different setting and turns recognizable faces (most notably Taylor Lautner, who is just unbelievably bad and unfunny here) and talented actors into the most unlikable cast of buffoons I've seen this year.Give Sandler credit in that he, at the very least, didn't make us pay any extra, leave our homes, or put on pants to see a film that's really not even good enough for a direct-to-Comedy-Central release.
The Ridiculous 6, which also parodies The Magnificent Seven, though, because of timing, seems to ride the coattails of Quentin Tarantino's forthcoming Hateful Eight, is an abysmal comedic affair, and that, above all, given Sandler's recent string of films and the dumping of his next four films on Netflix, is the most unsurprising thing about this entire mess of a film.Starring: Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Jorge Garcia, Taylor Lautner, Terry Crews, Luke Wilson, Nick Nolte, Steve Zahn, Danny Trejo, Vanilla Ice, Blake Shelton, Steve Buscemi, David Spade, Will Forte, Chris Kattan, and Harvey Keitel.
This is an unpretentious, fun, dumb movie to laugh at, If you don't like it that's fine, but what kind of humor did you expect?
It was so politically incorrect (in a funny, not a snide or insulting way) we just couldn't stop laughing.Sometimes we watch highly rated comedies or shows hoping for even a single laugh.I think this movie was much funnier than Blazing Saddles since it didn't snobbishly intellectually make politically incorrect "jokes" that requires you to be "intellectually truly superior and clever to "get" it.Feel free to snobbishly reject and condemn this movie for its failure to follow the acceptable structure for intellectually proper politically incorrect humor and be so intellectually refined, or you might just enjoy the different and unique humor!
first off,i like this movie, its rare the the title perfectly explains what the movie is about,the acting is abit shallow at times but thats OK for a movie like this, i even teared up at the end (i tear up very fast tho), they also hide these little references in there that absolute awesome if you get them.adam sandler fits in, did not get annoyed with him at all,so overall i believe this is great movie and i recommend to watch it but some will hate it, everyone has its taste in movies,if you want to have a good laugh this is one of the candidates to succeed at the job,and to finish off i just want to say that by no means i am an experienced movie critic.
Most of the other actors are definitely Sandler favorites but they actually seem like they cared about this movie.
What's worse is that this film isn't a "so bad it's funny" kind of movie.
It's so uncomfortable to watch that when the film hits a legitimate joke you can't laugh because of how terrible everything is.'The Ridiculous 6' is a trainwreck.
I can safely say that there are Sandler movies that I admire and no matter how ridiculous the humor had some underlying meaning that left me with that feel good feeling when it was over...
If you don't like his movies, don't watch them.I also get tired of all the serious critics that try and review Adam Sandler movies.
Yes you need to pay attention or you will miss a lot.So, before giving it a bad review, watch it again and pay attention then tell me it isn't funny.No doubt this will become a cult classic..
If he wanted serious acting he would have a completely different script and actors, but then it wouldn't be a Adam Sandler slap stick stupid comedy.
Watching Turturro's acting as the father of America's favorite sport made me laugh so hard; Buscemi's character was brilliant; the toilet humor was not excessive, but funny; the Spanglish used was neat, and one you appreciate more if you work with languages.
No need to indulge in awful criticism as this movie hits the nail in the head, it is meant to make you laugh and have a good time, and I did.
So much more could have been done with Nick Nolte's (who actually does a pretty good job) character.The one redeeming quality is the many guest stars - I kept watching through the whole movie simply to see who showed up.
It's stupidly funny which is what we always get anytime we watch an Adam Sandler movie.
People with no sense of humor should definitely not watch, but if you're a Sandler fan and you love all of his crazy characters and his way of providing entertainment then this movie is something that you will enjoy.
What Sandler did, was take a few classic Western comedies like Blazing Saddles, A Million Ways to Die in the West and City Slickers, and switched things up a bit, adding even more satire to this mix than normal.
I am confused why someone would state "I don't like Adam Sandler films" then expect to enjoy this!This wasn't made to be an award winning flick and is for those who like a goofy comedy (like Happy Gilmore) and I was hesitant after the various negative reviews.
I for one welcome Adam Sandler's next 3 movies for Netflix..
It's an Adam Sandler movie, it's supposed to be stupid!
This movies is exactly the same as all Adam Sandler's previous films, so I don't know why people are saying this one is stupid and his films from the 90s so different.
This is an excellent, classic Adam Sandler movie that's enjoyable to watch when you had a bad day at work and just want to see something fun and light-hearted.
I found this movie really funny with a great cast and yes the story might be a simple but that doesn't mean is stupid!
Sadly, this movie turned out to be a disappointment, much like last year's western-set comedy 'A Million Ways To Die in The West'.
Like most Adam Sandler comedies, this movie tries so hard to get laughs out from the characters' stupidity, and it fails miserably.
The Ridiculous 6 is not a good movie and falls severely short of laughs, and its quite disappointing for such a star-studded cast.
I went in knowing it was an Adam Sandler movie.
I generally like Adam Sandler movies but not so much the overly stupid ones such as Billy Madison which puts me usually in the minority this one on the other hand made me laugh a little and there was some silly juvenile humor while still being basically Spaghetti Western type.I would definitely recommend it to friends as well as watch it again.
This is originality, something that movies had lost, which is why the most original stuff is in television and cable series these days!Adam Sandler deserves props as one of the writers, this was unique, and with all of the big budget flops, we needed this!If you do not go into this movie expecting a Clint Eastwood western or Kurt Russell's Tombstone, you'll have a wonderful time and pass your Saturday night away with some laughs and plenty of surprises!The Ridiculous 6 is the Generation X version of Blazing Saddles!.
(With lil' Pete)People are writing their reviews thinking they are amazing movie critics but honestly, this film is actually well done.
Everyone likes different things, you could read a terrible review to a movie and not watch it because of it, but who's to say your opinion wouldn't be different..
Some people seemed to not like the movie but I personally thought it was great.
It is in my humble opinion that people who rated this movie 1/10 didn't even watch this movie and/or they really dislike Adam Sandler.Lastly, this is a fun movie with a smahingly-great cast that you can tell really enjoyed making the movie.
Some parts of the film were ridiculous, but hey, it's in the title.I was very surprised, as I find some Adam Sandler films to be pretty stupid.Some reviews seem to be quite harsh on the stereotypes used, but stories and life are both boring without them.
The Ridiculous 6 certainly isn't one of Sandler's best comedic performances of all time (The Wedding Singer, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, etc.), however, it packs more laughs than most of his films from the last 5 to 10 years.
Look, this is an Adam Sandler movie.
Don't get me wrong, you don't care all that much in the end, but, substantially more than at the beginning.There is this sense that much more could have been done here, especially with some sketches, and the overall story, but, Adam Sandler movies have been having such a feel to them for a long time.So, it's a good way to take a rest, have some fun and laughs and not think much about stuff..
I don't like Adam Sandler; I never have but I enjoyed every bit of this movie.
If you don't like Adam Sandler, then don't watch it.
Much like the old airplane movies, history of the world humor but modernized.The plot was different, a western comedy.
All of the actors really do it well on this movie like Sandler and Lautner.
I like his movies but this isn't funny in an Adam Sandler way.
He has a point but I don't care I think Sandler has some great movies and will always enjoy!!!!.
The Ridiculous 6 no doubt counts as another bad Adam Sandler film but he's hardly the only issue here..
I don't even know why I attempt to watch Adam Sandler movies anymore.
Today Adam Sandler has simply stopped trying and I'd really like to know what happened.The 'Ridiculous 6' (as I was told) was meant to be a parody of 'The Magnificent Seven', but I can't find parody in this film.