My Review -
Dicks The Musical -
My Rating - 1 /10
I admire the work of Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally who are both great comedy performers and both very musical however even their talents couldn't convince me that this insult to the word musical comedy was worth this one hour and 26 minutes of embarrassment.
In the out takes at the blessed conclusion of Dicks the musical Nathan Lane states a little too tongue in cheek that he has had many low points in his career but Dicks the Musical could be the lowest .
So why did he do it ?
Perhaps when Nathan Lanes's agent called him about taking a role in arthouse darling A24's musical, he jumped at the chance to make movie history.
Even those unfamiliar with Dicks the musical could probably guess that the phrase "Sewer Boys" goes hand-in-hand with humiliation.
This movie adaptation of an off and I emphasise OFF Broadway play by Marius De Vries and Karl Saint Lucy and directed by Seinfeld legend and Borat director Larry Charles is an insult to the term musical Comedy and a career low for both Megan Mullally and Nathan Lane.
Nathan Lane Lane describes Dicks: The Musical as "a deeply silly, satirical, absurdist, R-rated queer musical based on The Parent Trap," Lane's character Harris, is an elegant homosexual patriarch of two boys whom he and his ex-wife separated at birth unbeknownst to their twin sons.
Megan Mullally remember her brilliant acerbic bitchy character Karen in Will and Grace plays Evelyn an elderly demented mother who's pussy drops off and I don't mean her lap . Grace is the mother of the twin boys trying to reunite their odd mismatched parents back again.
The twins Craig and Trevor are played by Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson who are billed as two gay men playing the difficult role of playing two straight men I suppose that's meant to be a satirical social comment on straight men playing gay characters?
The most offensive characters in this trash are the grotesque pets of Nathan Lane kept in a cage he calls the Sewer Boys .
He explains "I take them into my home, and they're like rescue dogs. I keep them in a cage in my living room," Lane said of his relationship to the Sewer Boys in the film. "And I feed them sort of like a mother bird. They like deli meat, so I chew up ham and I spit it into their mouths. You know, like their mother." Enough said all I can say about this $12 million USD waste of celluloid is I'm glad it's only grossed $1.5 million USD worldwide but I'm sad I've contributed my $14 towards its profits.
Cole Porter , Stephen Sondheim, George Gershwin .Irving Berlin , Jerry Herman would turn in their graves to see what passes as musical comedy today.
I admire the work of Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally who are both great comedy performers and both very musical however even their talents couldn't convince me that this insult to the word musical comedy was worth this one hour and 26 minutes of embarrassment.
In the out takes at the blessed conclusion of Dicks the musical Nathan Lane states a little too tongue in cheek that he has had many low points in his career but Dicks the Musical could be the lowest .
So why did he do it ?
Perhaps when Nathan Lanes's agent called him about taking a role in arthouse darling A24's musical, he jumped at the chance to make movie history.
Even those unfamiliar with Dicks the musical could probably guess that the phrase "Sewer Boys" goes hand-in-hand with humiliation.
This movie adaptation of an off and I emphasise OFF Broadway play by Marius De Vries and Karl Saint Lucy and directed by Seinfeld legend and Borat director Larry Charles is an insult to the term musical Comedy and a career low for both Megan Mullally and Nathan Lane.
Nathan Lane Lane describes Dicks: The Musical as "a deeply silly, satirical, absurdist, R-rated queer musical based on The Parent Trap," Lane's character Harris, is an elegant homosexual patriarch of two boys whom he and his ex-wife separated at birth unbeknownst to their twin sons.
Megan Mullally remember her brilliant acerbic bitchy character Karen in Will and Grace plays Evelyn an elderly demented mother who's pussy drops off and I don't mean her lap . Grace is the mother of the twin boys trying to reunite their odd mismatched parents back again.
The twins Craig and Trevor are played by Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson who are billed as two gay men playing the difficult role of playing two straight men I suppose that's meant to be a satirical social comment on straight men playing gay characters?
The most offensive characters in this trash are the grotesque pets of Nathan Lane kept in a cage he calls the Sewer Boys .
He explains "I take them into my home, and they're like rescue dogs. I keep them in a cage in my living room," Lane said of his relationship to the Sewer Boys in the film. "And I feed them sort of like a mother bird. They like deli meat, so I chew up ham and I spit it into their mouths. You know, like their mother." Enough said all I can say about this $12 million USD waste of celluloid is I'm glad it's only grossed $1.5 million USD worldwide but I'm sad I've contributed my $14 towards its profits.
Cole Porter , Stephen Sondheim, George Gershwin .Irving Berlin , Jerry Herman would turn in their graves to see what passes as musical comedy today.