Ridiculous 6 Netflix Movie Review

The Ridiculous 6 (2015)

The Ridiculous 6 - It's just not funny.

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Written by: Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler
Directed by: Frank Coraci
Starring: Adam Sandler, Terry Crews, Jorge Garcia, Taylor Lautner, Rob Scneider, Luke Wilson, Nick Nolte, Harvey Keitel
Rated: TV-14

Plot:
Adam Sandler is one of six half brothers who band together to find and then save their father.

Verdict:
The glaring problem with this movie is that it fails to be funny. That's a problem for a comedy that recycles the same jokes throughout the two hour run time. It provides the setup for a joke and stops there. The setup isn't the joke, and the movie often fails to realize that.
Skip it.

Review:
Adam Sandler plays Tommy 'Hot Knife', abandoned by his father, he was raised by Native Americans. In a bid to save his father, he meets five half brothers who agree to aid his plight.
I approached this with a low opinion after seeing the trailer. My trepidation was soon realized as the first scene felt like a Youtube video, albeit a high budget video. Thankfully the set pieces and production value are actually really good throughout the film.
I like clever comedies, and this movie's jokes are incredibly superficial and crude. The brothers are different races, which provides the setup for a joke, but this movie presents that as the joke. We get a visual gag of a donkey's explosive poop, and not just once. That sums up the movie in a nutshell, which is disappointing with the number of well-known actors involved.
The gold nugget heist scene wasn't bad, but it was never funny. The scene culminated with a decapitated Harvey Keitel firing revolvers, which doesn't strike me as funny, though the movie begs to differ, referencing that scene multiple times, falling just short of a character looking at the camera and telling me this is the part where I should laugh. The joke repertoire of the movie is very shallow.
I liked the invention of baseball scene, bolstered by John Turturro alone, but it only approached interesting and felt out of place as it had no purpose other than to give Tururro a few minutes of screen time. 
Vanilla Ice appeared as Mark Twain, but that's the end of the joke. Sure that has potential, but the movie mishandled any potential. If someone considers Rob Schneider as one of the brighter spots in any movie, that raises concerns, and admittedly I considered him a brighter spot in this movie.