Adam Sandler’s Worst Movie Ever, According To Rotten Tomatoes – SlashFilm

You know how weirdos fixated with rallying against what they perceive as “woke culture” love to argue that “Blazing Saddles” couldn’t be made today (as though movies like “Get Out” and “Sorry to Bother You” aren’t just as bold and provocative in their skewering of racism)? Well, if anyone gets it in their mind to directly try and one-up Mel Brooks’ famous Western parody, they’re going to have to do better than Sandler, director Frank Coraci, and Sandler’s co-writer Tim Herlihy did with “The Ridiculous Six.”

Much like the movie its title is obviously riffing on, “The Magnificent Seven,” Coraci’s Western comedy is a “Getting the Gang Together” flick — with the twist that its gunslingers are all long-lost brothers who reunite to find their no-good-varmint father (Nick Nolte, because who else would you hire to play a long-absent, deadbeat dad?). The Sandman himself stars as Tommy aka “White Knife,” a white man raised by Native Americans, with Taylor Lautner, Terry Crews, Jorge Garcia, Luke Wilson, and Rob Schneider playing his siblings. In the right hands, that setup could feasibly lend itself to a satire with just as much bite as “Blazing Saddles” had upon its original release. Here, though, all you get is “broad racism and misogyny” (to quote Brian Tallerico’s half-star review for Roger Ebert.com), enough to prompt several of the film’s Native American actors to walk off the set during production.

Tallerico isn’t on an island, either. All 37 reviews currently on Rotty T’s for “The Ridiculous Six” are “Rotten,” with the average score coming in at 2.4/10 (meaning, critics didn’t just dislike it on a pass/fail scale, they hated it however you choose to frame it). Happily, everyone seems to agree that Sandler’s Netflix products have only improved since then, which … isn’t saying much on its own. At least we know where the bar is, I guess?