IMDb plot summary: A pair of business rivals discover that they're identical twins and decide to swap places in an attempt to trick their divorced parents to get back together.
Directed by Larry Charles. Stars Josh Sharp, Aaron Jackson, and Nathan Lane.
Dicks: The Musical is basically an ultra-ridiculous, ultra-raunchy adaptation of The Parent Trap: two adult businessmen find out they are twins separated at birth and decide to try and reunite their parents. I had the most mixed reaction to this one -- the first 3/4 are the funniest thing I've ever seen, and then it takes a steep left turn. The humor throughout comes so out of left field that it kept catching me off guard and getting genuine belly laughs from me, and that's pretty rare in a film. I thought for the first hour and 15 minutes that this might be in my top 5 of the year. But the final portion takes one single joke that isn't super funny to begin with and then goes for it over... and over... and over... in a way that feels very stale for a film that was finding new and creative ways to do things every 10 seconds up until that point. It was SUCH a deep disappointment after how much I loved most of it, and I don't quite know how to process the whiplash of that. I will probably rewatch that first section and just turn it off after what feels like the obvious conclusion to the story, before it goes off the rails.
How it entered my Flickchart:
🎥 Dicks: The Musical (2023)
📊 Ranked #1168/4174 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 72
beat Raising Arizona (#2090 → #2091)
lost to The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (held at #1038)
beat Single White Female (#1559 → #1560)
beat New York Stories (#1297 → #1298)
lost to Center Stage (held at #1167)
beat Dangerous Liaisons (#1232 → #1233)
beat Cats (#1199 → #1200)
beat Song of the Sea (#1183 → #1184)
beat The Color Purple (#1175 → #1176)
beat Wonder Boys (#1171 → #1172)
beat Billy Liar (#1169 → #1170)
beat The Hill (#1168 → #1169)
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