So, you know how A24 has never done a movie musical? (No, Oscar Isaac dancing in Ex Machina doesn’t count.) That’s about to change. And it involves Megan Thee Stallion, a heart necklace, and eldritch horrors right out of Mad God. who are apparently known as the Sewer Boys.
Oh, and it’s a Parent Trap plot.
Based on a two-man show that writers and stars Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp first staged at Chicago cult comedy creche Upright Citizens’ Brigade nearly a decade ago, Dicks: The Musical used to be called Fucking Identical Twins. It’s the story of two business guys with terrible personalities who discover they’re long-lost identical twin brothers (played by Sharp and Jackson, who are, you may notice, not at all identical).
Naturally, they hatch a plan to reunite their divorced parents (Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally, both nibbling the scenery like a martini olive), but that goal seems doomed from the start.
It’s hammy, hairy, and has no business being anything but hilarious. It’ll make a hell of a double feature with Saw X.
Dicks: The Musical is in theaters Sept. 29.
