{"id":17981,"date":"2015-12-14T00:25:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T05:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=17981"},"modified":"2015-12-13T08:29:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T13:29:35","slug":"the-ridiculous-6-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/14\/the-ridiculous-6-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ridiculous 6 (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You can\u2019t even be mad at Adam Sandler anymore. If he\u2019s not trying to break out of his comfort zone, all we can really do is watch the slow painful death of his career, while he brings Netflix down with him. Sandler silently stumbles in to \u201cThe Ridiculous 6\u201d with an obvious bored, half asleep performance, and leaves the film with a cool pay day and the hope that at least one or two of his remaining fans will love what he\u2019s put out in the form of this hideous western comedy that doesn\u2019t even try to re-invent the wheel. Netflix doesn\u2019t seem to be demanding much from Sandler, so it\u2019s apparent here that Sandler isn\u2019t even working toward offering nothing we haven\u2019t already seen in the last fifteen years ad nauseum. Almost like a contractual obligation, \u201cThe Ridiculous 6\u201d is a greatest hits compilation of no brainer Sandler tropes that fill up the required two hour run time.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s the vast array of racial stereotypes, Sandler\u2019s character is a man child with daddy issues. He is impossibly married to a gorgeous woman, Sandler\u2019s friends all appear (including early day and latter day Happy Madison players). Sandler, of course, enlists the help from his long out of work SNL alum (Chris Kattan? Haven\u2019t seen him in a while), he garners the help of Rob Schneider who once again plays a racial stereotype, there is a ton of black humor that falls flat, there\u2019s at least one or two attempts at gross out humor, and the new one: Sandler surrounds himself with a lot of funnier more talented people who carry the comic weight for Sandler, who doesn\u2019t even seem to try to be remotely wacky anymore. Sandler is essentially a straight man given one or two brief wacky moments, while folks like Terry Crews, Luke Wilson, Jorge Garcia, Harvey Keitel, and even Taylor Lautner steal all of the laughs from our star.<\/p>\n

Yes, Taylor Lautner is funnier in an Adam Sandler vehicle, than Adam Sandler. If that\u2019s not enough the script isn\u2019t so much a narrative as it is a wide and tedious arc of comedy sketches, all of which are disconnected and painfully unfunny. One scene involves the Ridiculous 6 singing a rousing song around a camp fire, cut to the morning where (in a scene that lasts at least twenty minutes) they\u2019re literally taught the game of baseball by Abner Doubleday, if for no other reason than to give John Turturro something to do. As for the gross racism and stereotypes, it\u2019s pretty much par for the course with Sandler at this point. There are endless stereotypes about Native Americans with no comic effect. The Native American women are gorgeous and used as sexual objects, they have names like \u201cWears No Bra,\u201d and \u201cBeaver Breath,\u201d while Sandler walks around with a spray tan and dons a terrible Native American accent.<\/p>\n

Hanger on Schneider continues his campaign of racist caricatures, playing a Mexican whose burro sprays diarrhea as a weapon, and never stops talking about how he loves Tacos. He even sings a song called \u201cUnder the Taco Tree.\u201d The script oddly enough never has the balls to mock African Americans. Maybe it\u2019s because co-star Crews is a friend, or because Crews would have likely walked off the project, too. 2015 was a very active year for Sandler and Happy Madison, and it\u2019s a year filled with nothing but embarrassing duds from a man whose contemporaries like Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen are at least trying to grow as performers. Sandler seems very at home in the same old act he\u2019s been giving us since \u201cThe Waterboy,\u201d and he doesn\u2019t seem anxious to try anything new, any time soon. I know comedy is subjective, but to the small base that still find these kinds of movies funny, can you please try to help me understand the appeal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can\u2019t even be mad at Adam Sandler anymore. If he\u2019s not trying to break out of his comfort zone, all we can really do is watch the slow painful death of his career, while he brings Netflix down with him. Sandler silently stumbles in to \u201cThe Ridiculous 6\u201d with an obvious bored, half asleep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,63,71,219,813,1185],"class_list":["post-17981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adam-sandler","tag-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-r","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17983,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981\/revisions\/17983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}