The Ridiculous 6 is a Comedy Western written by, produced by, and starring Adam Sandler, as well as Terry Crews, Jorge Garcia, Taylor Lautner, Rob Schneider and Luke Wilson, featuring Nick Nolte and Danny Trejo, and cameoing Vanilla Ice, David Spade, Blake Shelton, and others. It follows Tommy (Sandler), also known by his Apache name of White Knife, who reunites with his father, Frank Stockburn (Nolte) who claims that he is dying of consumption before he is kidnapped at gunpoint by Cicero for the $50,000 he claims to have buried form his prior ill-gotten gains.
After Tommy fails to locate the buried money (having been given a vague clue about its location), he decides to follow the path of his father's former life in an effort to locate the money and save his father. In the process, he decides on accruing the money by robbing the bigots and thieves of the west, and encounters five half brothers sired by his father: the Mexican burro rider Ramon (Schneider), the cheerful simple-witted Lil' Pete (Lautner), the feral mountain man Herm (Garcia), the alcoholic Danny (Wilson), and black saloon pianist Chico (Crews). Over their mutual journey, Tommy comes to realize that family is more than just blood.
The film is notorious for its crude humor, its 0% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and an incident where a significant amount of the Native American extras walked off the set in protest of the jokes.note
This film exhibits the following tropes:
- Abhorrent Admirer: Never Wears Bra is this to Tommy. She even tells him up front she had a naughty dream about him.
- The Alcoholic: Danny is introduced with a drink in hand, which he protects to the expense of the rest of his body during the ensuing attack by Smiley. He later reveals that he drinks to forget his greatest failure.
- Amazon Chaser: Chico is stated by Stockburn himself to have gotten his muscles from his mother.
- Blade Enthusiast: Tommy is always carrying a ridiculously large number of knives, which he mostly uses via throwing in combat.
- The Cameo: Norm MacDonald plays a Gold Nugget Saloon customer, and Jackie Sandler plays Never Wears Bra.
- Chekhov's Gun: Danny can hold his breath for six minutes. The comes in useful as he manages to surprise the Left-Eye Gang and scare them off with gunfire by holding his breath beneath a pool of water and sneaking up to land. Lil' Pete has a strong neck that allows him to resist the noose during a robbery.
- Extended Disarming: When Tommy is talking to Ramon's mother, he's shown pulling knives out of his sheaths, out of his boots, from his sleeves... a longsword from where it's concealed on his back...
- Historical Domain Character: Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Abner Doubleday, General George Armstrong Custer, Mark Twain, and Wyatt Earp.
- Magical Native American: Tommy can speak with animals, make people believe he's a tumbleweed, and interpret Herm's garbled speech. His feats are often greeted with a proclamation by another character that "That is some mystical shit".
- The Man They Couldn't Hang: Lil' Pete has a ridiculously strong neck due to his mother frequently hitching him up to the plow and in one scene he acts as a distraction by arrange to be hung, and then performing various swinging tricks while in the noose.
- My Greatest Failure: Danny was Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard. He stepped away to go to the bathroom, passing John Wilkes Booth on the way.
- Non-Nude Bathing: When bathing in the river, all of the men are wearing long red boiler-suits for some reason, save for Chico.
- Off with His Head!: Ramon takes off Smiley's head with one shovel blow. He thought it would just knock him out.
- Really Gets Around: Frank Stockburn sired no less than 6 sons with 6 different women.
- Toilet Humor: Ramon's donkey sharts out a storm when he first meets Tommy. Later, this is used to defeat a bank teller during a robbery. The donkey cuts a (thankfully) dry fart during a camp scene.
- The Unintelligible: Herm communicates in a mix of mumbling, grunts, and pantomime.
