TIFF 2023: Our Review of ‘Dicks: The Musical’

Posted in TIFF 2023 by - September 12, 2023
TIFF 2023: Our Review of ‘Dicks: The Musical’

While the title Dicks: The Musical may be misleading (along with the original show entitled Fucking Identical Twins), it is a Parent Trap-esque caper of two ‘straight’ men, Craig (Josh Sharp) and Trevor (Aaron Jackson), discovering that they are in fact identical twins and want to get their parents back together.

Harris (Nathan Lane) is the father and is Trevor’s dad and Evelyn (Megan Mullally) is Craig’s mom. They get to know their parents a little too comfortably and things get quite out of hand rather quickly, but in a movie entitled Dicks: The Musical, what more could you possibly ask for?

The laughs are literally deafening from the audience as they cannot ever stop. They’re gut punch belly laughter, time and time again, with just absolute chaos unfolding in front of our eyes. Megan Mullaly is undeniably a scene stealer, but it is Megan Thee Stallion as Craig and Trevor’s boss that undeniably slays every single scene she is in. Nathan Lane commits to the absurdity; he finds himself in some of the funniest moments of the movie that literally will have audiences crying from laughing too hard.

All of this works because Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson (who has the mannerisms and characteristics of a young Jim Carrey) do not deliver on a large scale of their two man show. Dicks: The Musical is a perfect movie that simply is the most outrageous and over the top in the best way.

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