‘Dicks: The Musical’ review: It’s as obscene as you think — and funny, too
nypost.com“Dicks: The Musical” has an extremely useful title. Your gut reaction to those three short words will help you decide whether you can stomach this loony A24 movie, which had its world premiere Thursday at the Toronto International Film Festival — or if it’ll make you retch.Trust your instincts, because the film itself, directed by Larry Charles (“Borat”), won’t change your mind.
You go in either loving this sort of thing — or loathing it.This creature from the wacko lagoon has ample obscenities, constant profanity, razzmatazz songs and dances.
And, in my case, a lot of belly laughs.Running time: 86 minutes. Rated R (strong crude sexual content, brief drug use, pervasive language, graphic nudity.
In theaters Sept. 29.That’s partly because I’ve followed and enjoyed the careers of its talented writers and stars, Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson, two hilarious and high-energy New York actor-comedians who based the film on their Upright Citizens Brigade show “F–king Identical Twins.” There’s nobody else out there like them.Also it didn’t hurt that it premiered in the zany, irrepressible Midnight Madness section of TIFF, where the audiences are booze-soaked, delirious or a dangerous mixture of the two.
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