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On December 11, 2015, Netflix released The Ridiculous 6, a satirical Western from Adam Sandler‘s Happy Madison production company. It marked Netflix’s foray into comedy, as well as the first film in a long-running partnership with Sandler, which many had hoped would be a home run. Instead, we got an infamously bad movie that a lot of fans put right next to Jack and Jill when thinking about Sandler’s worst films.
Netflix has obviously released a bunch of other comedies in the years since — and some of them have actually been pretty good. But it’s still such a surprise now to look back and see how poorly things started.
If you’re curious as to just how bad The Ridiculous 6 is, it is perhaps best known for being one of the few major movie releases to earn an infamous 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It fared slightly better with fans — but not that much better, scoring a 37% on the viewer-driven Popcornmeter. The criticisms range from the sheer laziness of the projects attempts at humor, to calling out many of the offensive depictions contained within its characters.
The Ridiculous 6, from director Frank Coraci, is just about as bad a movie has we’ve seen on Netflix over the last decade (though I’d still take it over Spenser Confidential any day of the week). The movie stars Sandler as an outlaw in the old West named White Knife, who found himself without parents at a young age and was raised by Native Americans. He eventually discovers that he has five half-brothers and he bands them all together to try and track down their deadbeat father.
