Adam Sandler's straight-to-Netflix film, The Ridiculous 6, represents an even larger fall from grace for the once successful comedian. After seeing the train wrecks that were Grown Ups 2, and That's My Boy I figured Sandler couldn't stoop any lower, I was wrong. The Ridiculous 6 is unfunny, terribly acted, overly silly, dumb, and truly terrible in almost all facets. It seems sad because Sandler is talented, but if he continues making films like this, he can't maintain an audience. Adam Sandler has become increasingly lazy over the last few years, but this film goes beyond that. Ridiculous 6 features an odd type of humor, which is a combination of dumb, silly, and racist. The humor is so stupid, it rarely registers as funny, but often feels like awkward moments of randomness. The film features a ton of cameos, most of them are distracting and not funny, except Vanilla Ice as Mark Twain. The humor was not only dumb, but it was exceedingly silly too. The film's acting is terrible, on every level. Sandler feels like he's mailing in his performance, while Taylor Lautner takes a giant step backwards as an actor. While Rob Schneider, Luke Wilson, and Terry Crewes manage to not come across as distractingly bad, almost every performance is awful. What doesn't help the acting is that the film has almost no story, terrible dialogue, and characters that are just racist stereotypes. It's sad looking at it, because many talented actors appear in the film, but they are all totally wasted. The story of Ridiculous 6 is more a bunch of random situations sloppily put together, built entirely on logical fallacies. Since the story is terribly constructed it feels bloated, and the film drags on. In retrospect the film is really about a half-hour too long. On top of that the film's villains are weak, and thus the film's conflict feels fake, and forced. Really when looking at closely it all comes down to the fact, that the film was lazily constructed. In conclusion The Ridiculous 6 represents a new low for Adam Sandler, who continues to get lazier, and lazier. The film is dumb, silly, racist, boring, not funny, and features a story that is so poorly written a 4 year old could have produced a better story. Hopefully, Sandler feels a negative backlash and finally takes some pride in his work, because he clearly has none now.
Review of The Ridiculous 6
