Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes:
Two self-obsessed businessmen discover they’re long-lost identical twins and come together to plot the reunion of their eccentric divorced parents.
Review:
Dicks: The Musical features lots of talk about dicks, most of it of the sixth grade boy kind, and for the adults (the director is Larry Charles of Borat fame, so the outrageously crude and offensive is to be expected), a flying vagina kept in a zip lock bag, and for plot, two not really identical twins (Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, who cowrote the screenplay and the songs) trying to get their parents (Nathan Lane and Megan Mulally) back together. For the deviant Troma Studios horror fan there are two sewer boys- baby goblins, probably the product of some miscarriage.
I found it mostly funny and weird but striving too hard for cult movie status. A24 released it, so there is some redeeming qualities and decent filmmaking guaranteed. Jackson and Sharp try to echo Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels from Dumb and Dumber. They’re mostly successful, with Sharp occasionally slipping into some old style Jerry Lewis mugging and Jackson into Tommy Wisesau method ham. Lane and Mulally being the pros that they are, steals Dicks from the two leads with perfect comic timing, and Broadway vocal pizzazz.
Dicks does go limp sometimes and Charles’s comic viagra doesn’t always get it up. The ending is a little too engineered to shock and not even the flying pussy can save Dicks from its over jizz.
Dicks: The Musical gets a 3.0/5 or a B. It’s streaming on Max.
Credits:
Directed by
Screenplay by
- Aaron Jackson
- Josh Sharp
Based on
- Josh Sharp
- Aaron Jackson
Produced by
- Peter Chernin
- Jenno Topping
- Kori Adelson
- Larry Charles
Starring
- Megan Mullally
- Megan Thee Stallion
- Bowen Yang
- Nathan Lane
- Aaron Jackson
- Josh Sharp
Cinematography
Michelle Lawler
Edited by
Al LeVine
Music by
- Marius de Vries
- Karl Saint Lucy
Production
companies
Distributed by
A24
Release dates
- September 7, 2023(TIFF)
- October 6, 2023(United States)
Running time
86 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$8 million
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