![]() Netflix issued a statement standing by Sandler and the movie, and now the actor/producer is weighing in himself. You may recall the controversy over how Native Americans are depicted in the movie about a dozen Native actors and actresses, and the cultural adviser, walked off the set in April, sharing their complaints. She plays Jon Lovitz's wife and gets less screen time and jokes than Vanilla freaking Ice.Adam Sandler is currently promoting his new movie "Pixels," but while he's talking to the press, the press is asking about another one of his projects: "The Ridiculous 6." That's the name of his Netflix comedy, which has an all-star cast and premieres December 11. The story makes plenty of historical detours by well known comedians, including a 10-minute bit where John Turturro creates the game of baseball one where Luke Wilson is President Lincoln's bodyguard and lets John Wilkes Booth (Chris Kattan) kill him a running gag about the Left Eye gang led by Will Forte and a plot line about a poker game that is only worth mentioning here because it features the film's lone female comedian, Whitney Cummings. The humor here is not smart enough to be subversive, so it just feels irresponsible and offensive. That's Sandler's comedy M.O.: In a world where nothing is sacred, it's fine to make fun of everything, right? Nope. Crews constantly makes jokes that he's half-black and no one can tell. Schneider dons brown face paint to play a Mexican. Garcia plays a man with developmental disorders thanks to fetal alcohol syndrome. Lautner plays a mentally impaired young man who's the butt of many jokes. It's not only Native Americans this film manages to skewer. The objections of the Native American community to this movie were well documented while it was still in production. They include Screaming Eagle, Never Wears Bra (a woman in the tribe who desperately wants to do it with Sandler for no apparent reason), and Beaver Breath (a woman whom a rival gang finds unattractive). That's the theme for all the Native American women we meet, who get one-note lines of introduction. We meet Sandler's wife, the dutiful Smoking Fox (Julia Jones), a Native American woman with a name that manages to be both racist and sexist. They are prostitutes, wives, and the memories of the brothers' mothers, who are only described through the eyes of their sons but never actually speak. In Sandler's world, women are reduced to one-note appearances. Even Quentin Tarantino's forthcoming update on the Western genre, The Hateful Eight, manages to fit in a strong female with Jennifer Jason Leigh's character, Daisy Domergue. The problem with that is that their path to becoming men contains no fully developed female characters. He hooks up with his five brothers, played by Rob Schneider, Jorge Garcia, Taylor Lautner, Terry Crews, and Luke Wilson, to go on a journey to save the father they never knew. It also means he's the straight man while his supporting cast and a burro make really bad jokes about farts, women's bodies, and every racial stereotype under the sun.Īt its core, The Ridiculous 6 is, like most of Sandler's movies, an infantile fantasy. For Sandler, that means talking like Christian Bale in The Dark Knight (or Clint Eastwood in every Western ever) to convey complexity and depth. In this film, he's a totally competent guy - the strong, silent type. He shakes off that trope for The Ridiculous 6, in one way. Along the way, a lot of sophomoric jokes get cracked by his former SNL castmates who are part of the Happy Madison family. Adam Sandler's movies tend to follow a blueprint: He's a lovable doofus who messes up his life and then fixes it all by the end of the film, while the hottest girl in the world falls in love with him seemingly against all logic or good advice.
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