1/10
Comedy act to unfunny musical
22 November 2023
All I knew was the premise, that this is a musical comedy, and that it is based off something to make this the studio A24's first musical; this movie that has a very weird title is based on a Broadway musical called F*cking Identical Twins by Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson, and having a movie with this title based on a Broadway musical with a title like that, I was not having any faith in it. After watching the movie, I will say that Dicks: The Musical (2023) is one of the worst musicals I have seen this year; this movie was annoying and unfunny from beginning to end, and despite the one hour and twenty-six-minute-long runtime, it felt longer than it should as I was watching it.

Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson, as Craig and Trevor who find out they are identical twins, were not good in the movie with their performances being annoying and over the top in a terrible way, along with them being hard to watch where you want to cringe because of the many things they do in the movie that is not funny. I like Nathan Lane, but as the dad in the movie, he was too over the top doing unexplained dumb things and a weird way of getting across a certain thing about himself; the mom played by Megan Mullally, who is a good actor, was weird and had me cringe at many lines of dialogue and scenes with her and Nathan Lane's character that was hard to watch. Plus, we have the appearance of Megan Thee Stallion as the boss of the main characters job, and she had a painful and annoying performance that was hard to watch with the scenes and song numbers she is in.

All the songs in the movie are not good, though the singing is ok, the lip syncing did not look like it matched what is supposed to be said, and the songs were annoying to listen to along with the look of the song numbers being cringe worthy; I will also add that for a musical comedy it was not funny throughout the whole movie, and instead I cringed, was weirded about what was happening, and was wondering what was going on. This movie has a lot of weird and disturbing things involving sewer creatures, a flying talking vagina, and terrible scenes with this movie's version of God played by Bowen Yang; throughout the movie I was wondering when it was going to end because I did not care about anything going on, along with them completing the main plot of the movie and then doing something else entirely by the third act.

The entire third act/third act climax was so weird and random with it trying to force a bad message by the end, along with a song they played at the end that had terrible lyrics that I hated listening to; the ending was weird and good to look at, and when the credits rolled, I was relived it was over. I highly suggest that you should not watch this unfunny and annoying musical comedy, when you can watch better musicals that have better songs, a better plot, better performances, likable characters, and a better experience so you can enjoy it more.
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