Review of The Ridiculous 6 (2015) by Jamess — 14 Dec 2015

Its pretty bad when the only actual laugh comes during the title sequence, when "The Ridiculous 8" is "filmed in 4K", poking fun at Tarantino's Hateful 8 boasting 70MM. From there it's downhill all the way.

Despite fine cinematography from Dean Semler (Dances With Wolves, Road Warrior), everything in this film is ugly. The casual racism/sexism is alongside childish poop jokes that only a child would find funny.

Thing is, this isn't a movie for children. The usual ex-SNL suspects show up..Schneider, Spade, Lovitz, cameos from McDonald and Kattan. And his movie road company buddies Buscemi, Torturro, and Keitel.

Add to that Nick Nolte, Will Forte, Steve Zahn, among many others (Vanilla Ice as Mark Twain? Blake Shelton as Wyatt Earp? Why not.) But the major problem is Sandler himself. If he was accused of playing the same type film after film, he now underplays to the point of practically sleepwalking, muttering his monotone dialogue (also see Pixels, or don't).

This makes A Million Ways To Die In The West look like Citizen Kane. Interesting casting fact. You may remember when some American Indians walked off the set because of some offending tribal names. So who was cast as Never-Wears-Bra? Jackie Sandler.

Sandler's wife. Hey, a role's a role, right? Gotta support the hubby... As long as Sandler surrounds himself with the same "talent" as in writer Tim Herlihy and director Frack Coraci, he'll keep making the same crap.

Seriously, Sandler-ites. What was his last good, funny movie? Pixels...Blended...Grown Ups 1 & 2...That's My Boy...Jack and Jill...