Dicks: The Musical
Summary
Sometimes a motion picture comes along that is so outrageous and gonzo that it ’s a wonder it was ever made . peter : The Musicalis that moving picture . Directed by Larry Charles from a screenplay by Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp , who also spell and starred in the off - Broadway musical the film is based on , Dicks : The Musicalis weird , over the top , rarely as suspicious as it ’s trying to be , and fairly pretentious and very annoying . Its premiss is interesting enough — it’sParent Trapmeets Broadway — but the musical is but trying too surd to be funny , engineering its entire persona around control how far it can go .
Craig ( Sharp ) and Trevor ( Jackson ) are identical Twin who do n’t eff they ’ve been living in such close proximity to each other for days . They do n’t meet until they initiate working at the same sales event firm , but instead of trying to understand why they look so much alike , they compete with each other for the top sale spot while strike their boss ( Megan Thee Stallion ) . Realizing they ’re identical twins assort by their parent , Craig and Trevor switch places to meet their don Harris ( Nathan Lane ) , a braw man with a dearest for creepy-crawly sewer creatures , and eccentric mother Evelyn ( Megan Mullally ) , whose vulva has been physically detached , while set about to fetch them back together , so they can be a “ real ” family . Along the style , Craig and Trevor , who spill the beans about only understand each other and are the ultimate dude bros , realize they ’ve been gay all along .
It ’s been a while since I ’ve seen a moving picture that is so full of itself . Jackson and Sharp ’s playscript is all over the home . And while the story is run aground by Craig and Trevor ’s attempts to reunite their parent , everything about the film is contrived and force . The jest grow tired after the first ten minutes , and there ’s absolutely no eye — it ’s all spectacle , and a grating one at that . pecker : The Musical’ssongs , which come often , are unmemorable and there ’s a sense that the melodic might ’ve worked better as a unretentive film . It feels never ending as is , as well as objectionable , and entirely too proud of with itself .
Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally are the highlights of the plastic film . Their operation are wild and eldritch , but they do n’t overdo it for the rice beer of theatricality . The material they had to work with was already enough ; all they had to do was sell it , and they did . The same ca n’t be order for Sharp and Jackson , whose energy is at an eleven throughout . Their overzealousness want to be rein in to be effective , and the plastic film quickly run out of steam despite their exuberant performances . The duo is o.k. when they share scene with Lane and Mullally , but become more and more galling when they ’re together . Even Megan Thee Stallion ’s number , “ Out Alpha the Alpha , ” is n’t enough to keep the musical afloat , though Bowen Yang as God is delightful .
Dicks : The Musicalis merely doing too much , and not enough of it is good to apologise its runtime . It ’s neither clever nor funny , salvage for the couple of jokes that actually land , and it ’s too buttery for its own good . Perhaps if we were in on the joke it would have been a better watching experience , but Sharp and Jackson push edge and go all out without any real sentiency of direction . Sharp and Jackson are exaggerative for the saki of gasp and impact , and the film ’s ending is a testament to that which drives the picture show ’s level . It may be a black drollery , but it ’s too self - serve and exasperating to genuinely be good .
peter : The Musicalis now playing in theaters . The film is 86 minutes long and rated R for inviolable crude sexual content , graphical nudeness , permeative lyric and brief drug use .
Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson in Dicks: The Musical
prick : The Musical is a funniness melodious film based on the play by Aaron Jackson . When two unmarried - minded business rivals discover that they ’re superposable twins , they plan to reunite their parent and reconstruct the family they never had . By switching places with each other , the two sidekick invite topsy-turvydom into their - and everyone else ’s - globe .
Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Aaron Jackson, and Josh Sharp in Dicks: The Musical
Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally in Dicks: The Musical
