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''The Ridiculous 6'' is a 2015 American
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directed by
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and written by
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and
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, and starring Sandler,
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,
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,
Taylor Lautner Taylor Daniel Lautner ( ; born February 11, 1992) is an American actor. He is best known for playing werewolf Jacob Black in ''The Twilight Saga (film series), The Twilight Saga'' film series (2008–2012). His accolades include a Scream Awar ...
,
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, and
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. As
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' first Western film, as well as their first under Netflix, the plot follows six men who discover that they share the same bank-robbing father (
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) and thereafter set out to reunite with him. Released worldwide on
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on December 11, 2015, the film was panned by critics and is one of the few films to receive an approval rating of 0% on
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.


Plot

In the
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, Tommy, known as "White Knife" by the Indigenous American tribe who raised him after his mother was murdered, is to marry a member of the tribe named Smoking Fox, as arranged by his adoptive father Chief Screaming Eagle. Following a run-in with Will Patch and his Left-Eye Gang who claimed to have removed their right eye, as well as a one-eyed food proprietor named Clem, Tommy is visited by a bank robber named Frank Stockburn, who claims to be his biological father. Frank tells Tommy that he is dying of
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and had amassed $50,000 buried in a meadow, which he offers to Tommy and his tribe. The next day, a group of bandits led by the ruthless Cicero come to the village and want Frank to give them his "big score". Frank has the bandits kidnap him so he can lead them to the money at the so-called "Singing Windmill", in return for the bandits not attacking Tommy or the Natives. After searching the meadow, Tommy is unable to find the stash of money and sets off on a quest to steal the amount needed and save his father. During his journey, Tommy discovers that he has five half-brothers:
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burro rider Ramon, whose innkeeper mother had a fling with Frank; mentally stunted yet happy-go-lucky Lil' Pete, whose strong neck makes him immune to hanging;
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Herm, who speaks incomprehensibly and helped his mother sell their moonshine; a drunkard named Danny, who was the former bodyguard of
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and is guilt-ridden from accidentally leading
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to murder the president when he mistook him for a fan of the president on his way to the restroom; and African-American saloon pianist Chico, who confesses to being half-White. Meanwhile, Clem joins the Left-Eye Gang at the cost of his only functional eye and helps them abduct Smoking Fox. She escapes due to Clem's blindness and begins searching for Tommy and his half-brothers, now known as the Ridiculous 6. After meeting Chico and Danny, the half-brothers have a run in with Chico's boss, sociopathic saloon owner Smiley Harris, who was part of Frank's gang until Frank stole his cut of their biggest score and left him to die at the windmill. When Smiley attempts to kill the half-brothers out of revenge against Frank, he ends up being unintentionally decapitated by Ramon. The group later encounters
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, who is developing baseball with some Chinese immigrants. The Left-Eye Gang soon catch up to the Ridiculous 6 while the latter are relaxing in a pond. The gang overpowers the Ridiculous 6 and steal their loot. Through Herm's ramblings, translated by Tommy, the Ridiculous 6 then decide to rob a gambling game in Yuma hosted by Ezekiel Grant and attended by
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and General
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. The Ridiculous 6 succeed, though
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nearly jeopardizes their plan, and set off to ransom their father. On the way, the Ridiculous 6 come across the Left-Eye Gang who have been left to die in the desert by Cicero. Tommy and the brothers rescue the Left-Eye Gang and reclaim the $50,000 they had stolen from them. That evening, Tommy sees a photograph carried by Danny that proves Cicero is the one who murdered his mother and sets off alone to rescue his father and confront the bandit leader. After meeting with Cicero and paying the ransom, Tommy confronts Cicero and gets his revenge on his mother's killer. The Ridiculous 6, who followed Tommy along with the Left-Eye Gang, have a reunion with their long-lost father. When Frank learns his sons exceeded his expectations by amassing $100,000, he reveals that he masterminded his abduction. But Tommy counters that his group had a Plan B: a hidden bomb inside the bag containing the ransom money. When the bomb explodes and commotion ensues, Frank runs off to a mine with Smoking Fox as his hostage. Tommy runs after them and successfully rescues his bride-to-be and captures his father. Frank reveals he knew that Cicero killed Tommy’s mother, as she was going to rat out his gang, and is left to rot in the mine by Tommy. Back in the Native Village, Tommy weds Smoking Fox with his half-brothers in attendance. Since the revelation that their biological father Frank Stockburn was no more than a two-bit crook, Screaming Eagle decides to adopt all the half-brothers, as he did with Tommy. The Left-Eye Gang revealed that they lied about removing their right eyes, much to the anger of Clem. In the post-credits, Abner Doubleday and his Chinese baseball team do a chant to detail their appreciation for the Stockburns.


Cast


Production

''The Ridiculous 6'' had been in production by
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,
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and
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, but was dropped by all three. Warner Bros. dropped out soon after Adam Sandler and
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signed a four-picture deal with
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, although an insider noted to ''
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'' that the deal had nothing to do with their decision. By January 2015, Netflix picked up the film with others joining the cast including
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,
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,
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,
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,
Rob Schneider Robert Michael Schneider ( ; born October 31, 1963) is an American actor and comedian. He rose to prominence as a cast member on NBC's ''Saturday Night Live'' (1990–1994), where he earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Following ...
,
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,
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and
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. On February 16, 2015,
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joined the cast.
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began on February 20, 2015, and ended on May 2, 2015. On April 23, 2015,
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reported that approximately "a dozen Native actors and actresses, as well as the Native cultural advisor, left the set of Adam Sandler's newest film production, ''The Ridiculous Six''" in protest of its portrayal of the
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culture. The ''
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'' later reported that there were only four who left, out of over 100 Native American actors on the set.
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tribal members Loren Anthony and film student Allison Young said they left because they felt the film portrayed Native Americans in a negative light and took satire too far. They also complained that the portrayal of women was degrading. A representative of Netflix responded saying, "The movie has ridiculous in the title for a reason: because it is ridiculous. It is a broad satire of Western movies and the stereotypes they popularized, featuring a diverse cast that is not only part of—but in on—the joke." On May 4, 2015, the ''New York Daily News'' reported that Ricky Lee, one of the Native American actors on the ''Ridiculous 6'' set, said previous news reports were exaggerated and indeed there were only "four actors who left, but there were 150 extras, including grandmas and grandpas and children, who kept working." Apparently, before the film's wrap party, he and several other actors were approached by Sandler to speak about the controversy. Lee considered that those who left raised legitimate issues but it was "the wrong battlefield."


Release

The film premiered on
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on December 11, 2015. On January 6, 2016, Netflix announced that the film had been viewed more times in 30 days than any other film in Netflix history. It also made it to the number 1 spot in every territory in which Netflix operates.


Critical response

On
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, the film has an approval rating of 0% based on 37 reviews, with an average rating of 2.40/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Every bit as lazily offensive as its cast and concept would suggest, ''The Ridiculous Six'' is standard couch fare for Adam Sandler fanatics and must-avoid viewing for film enthusiasts of every other persuasion." On
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, the film has a weighted average score of 18 out of 100 based on reviews from 12 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike". Justin Chang of ''
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'' wrote: "The scenery ain't bad but the laughs are tumbleweed-sparse in ''The Ridiculous 6'', a Western sendup so lazy and aimless, it barely qualifies as parody." Mike McCahill of ''
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'' gave it 2 out of 5 and wrote: "Peer through this dopey haze long enough, and you can't fail to notice the cavalier racial attitudes, the endlessly pliable women; you'd have every right to be outraged, were it not now par for the Sandler course."


See also

*
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References


External links


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