The first release from his multi-film Netflix deal, Western farce The Ridiculous 6 is part of his attempt to see if an original serving of
his broad comedy stylings will work for the streaming service's audience, and the first trailer is now online.
Not exact matches
The shockingly affordable experience combines an ample three - course prix fixe dinner at Oscar's revered «Beef, Booze &
Broads» Steakhouse with a VIP ticket to The Scintas — a wildly entertaining
comedy and musical variety -
style show currently running in the hotel's swanky showroom.
In an era in which the
broadest and most scatological
comedy imaginable rules, he's built a career for himself as a sophisticated light comedian very much in the
style of his hero, David Niven.
Once the Furious movies slipped the realism leash, they went from being pulpy B movies to something like blockbuster superstores — a one - stop - shopping center where you can sample Mission: Impossible -
style assignments, MMA bouts (see Furious 7's Michelle Rodriguez and Ronda Rousey's formalwear tussle for a combo of both), A-list action heroes, gunfights, analog stunts, CGI spectacle, capeless superhero movies and a bit of
broad comedy on the side.
The
style often features
broad comic performances against a background of despair and defeatism; these were not
comedies with happy endings which seems to be a contradiction.
After that brashly meta opener, you might expect a smartly constructed Tarantino -
style black
comedy of retribution, but the film fails to deliver on that promise, devolving instead into a dispiriting tonal mishmash of mean - spirited revenge fantasy, girl - power romantic fantasy, and
comedy so
broad it tips into caricature.
As a «Friday «-
style comedy, the film's not wildly successful — it's
broad to the extent that it sometimes feels like a 1970s sitcom, with a stereotype - happy approach to
comedy, and while Ekragha has a good feel for local flavour, the lo - fi production values really show.
This is certainly the strangest project in Sudeikis» career to date, and while it's nice to see him expand his range beyond more traditional studio
comedies, his
broad style never quite syncs with the story's odd tonal shifts between
comedy, drama and suspense.
Gordon's direction is haphazard to say the least, going for
broad comedy one moment, straightforward action -
comedy at another, vulgar
comedy a few beats after that and total The Naked Gun
style joke - a-second parody
comedy right after that.