‘Dicks: The Musical’ Review: Dick Pic
metroweekly.comDicks: The Musical (★★★☆☆) is exactly the silly, sex-obsessed, do-anything-for-a-laugh (including having Nathan Lane regurgitate ham into the mouths of puppets), song-happy spoof implied by the title.
And that’s why it works.“Bravely written by two homosexuals,” according to the opening credits, the film stars those very same creators, Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson, as identical twins Craig (Sharp) and Trevor (Jackson), separated at birth.
Now happy, thriving, super-hetero corporate salesmen, each is introduced to us by God (Bowen Yang, of course), who narrates and occasionally joins the action.Craig and Trevor don’t look a damn thing alike, but they do happen to work in the same office, at Vroomba Parts International, where one day they put two and two together and start plotting to Parent Trap their long-estranged mom and dad into reuniting.By this point, the film, based on Sharp and Jackson’s two-man Off-Broadway musical Fucking Identical Twins, is three songs deep into its jam-packed score of offbeat, proudly profane tunes, featuring new originals co-written with Karl Saint Lucy.Pitched to ape the showtune formulas of Broadway and Disney musicals, the songs hit the targets more often than not, although there’s no real showstopper, and the vocals, often live-sung on set, lack oomph in the mix.Still, the lyrics and the script deal out jokes nonstop, making up in volume what they lack in precision — though some of the gags are razor-sharp.
As with Team America: World Police, or any Airplane!-style comedy, viewers should be ready to laugh at some downright stupid humor.Sight gags abound — a movie marquee hails “X24 presents Everyone, Everywhere All Cums at Once” — as do the one-liners about dick, pussy, and various.
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