Two self-obsessed businessmen discover they're long-lost identical twins and come together to plot the reunion of their eccentric, divorced parents.
Dicks: The Musical is a film on the off-Broadway musical Fucking identical Twins by Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson who are also the leads of the film. The film is directed by Larry Charles who directed Borat, The Dictator, Bruno and a few others, Charles mostly goes into satire with his films and there's plenty of satire in Dicks: The Musical although it's not very good.
Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp are actually quite entertaining here and their singing voices are genuinely pretty entertaining, some of the music has no business being as good as it is the prime example being "No One Understands Us" and "You Can't Give Up" two songs that are pretty much poking fun of the moments in a musical when the main character is at their lowest point. Both songs are genuinely entertaining and the scenes they are used for matches they completely well.
Megan Thee Stallion is actually not bad here either, granted she isn't given a whole lot to do but she does get song "Out Alpha The Alpha" which is another pretty solid song here, the whole sequence of her song is perhaps the most memorable of the movie as well as the most fun.
Unfortunately that's where the positives end because everything else in this movie is either not funny, repetitive or falls flat, the humor itself unfortunately is a lot of the same jokes just repeated every 10 minutes. The rest of the songs are incredibly forgettable and while I do get the point that they aren't supposed to be good, and that would be fine if the rest of the music was entertaining and genuinely funny which is not the case here.
I'm not sure what really happened here because Larry Charles has made some great satire in the past especially with Borat, so it's very frustrating to see this movie be this forgettable.
Dicks: The Musical is available on all VOD platforms.
4/10 D+
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