As Happy Madison Productions' first Western film, the plot follows six men who discover that they share the same bank-robbing father (Nick Nolte) and thereafter set out to reunite with him.

After searching the meadow, Tommy is unable to find the stash of money and sets off on a quest to steal the amount needed and save his father.

During his journey, Tommy discovers that he has five half-brothers: Mexican burro rider Ramon, whose innkeeper mother had a fling with Frank; mentally stunted yet happy-go-lucky Lil' Pete, whose strong neck makes him immune to hanging; mountain man Herm, who speaks incomprehensibly and helped his mother sell their moonshine; a drunkard named Danny, who was the former bodyguard of Abraham Lincoln and is guilt-ridden from accidentally leading John Wilkes Booth to murder the president when he mistook him for a fan of the president on his way to the restroom; and African-American saloon pianist Chico, who confesses to being half-White.

Through Herm's ramblings, translated by Tommy, the Ridiculous 6 then decide to rob a gambling game in Yuma hosted by Ezekiel Grant and attended by Mark Twain and General George Armstrong Custer.

That evening, Tommy sees a photograph carried by Danny that proves Cicero is the one who murdered his mother and sets off alone to rescue his father and confront the bandit leader.

Since the revelation that their biological father Frank Stockburn was no more than a two-bit crook, Screaming Eagle decides to adopt all the half-brothers, as he did with Tommy.

[4] By January 2015, Netflix picked up the film with others joining the cast including Taylor Lautner, Nick Nolte, Blake Shelton, Steve Buscemi, Rob Schneider, Will Forte, Vanilla Ice and Luke Wilson.

[5][6] On April 23, 2015, Indian Country Today Media Network reported that approximately "a dozen Native actors and actresses, as well as the Native cultural advisor, left the set of Adam Sandler's newest film production, The Ridiculous Six" in protest of its portrayal of the Apache culture.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Every bit as lazily offensive as its cast and concept would suggest, The Ridiculous Six is standard couch fare for Adam Sandler fanatics and must-avoid viewing for film enthusiasts of every other persuasion.

[14] Justin Chang of Variety wrote: "The scenery ain't bad but the laughs are tumbleweed-sparse in The Ridiculous 6, a Western sendup so lazy and aimless, it barely qualifies as parody.

"[15] Mike McCahill of The Guardian gave it 2 out of 5 and wrote: "Peer through this dopey haze long enough, and you can't fail to notice the cavalier racial attitudes, the endlessly pliable women; you'd have every right to be outraged, were it not now par for the Sandler course.