“Dicks: The Musical” was directed by “Borat” and “Brüno” helmer Larry Charles, who’s working comfortably in his wheelhouse with this raunchy, bizarro musical. (He is additionally a vocal supporter of the continued writers’ and actors’ strikes and was in favor of the directors’ guild going on strike, too, so good on him.) The movie itself facilities on “two self-obsessed businessmen (writers Aaron Jackson & Josh Sharp) [who] uncover they’re long-lost similar twins and are available collectively to plot the reunion of their eccentric divorced mother and father.” Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, and Bowen Yang spherical out the solid, becoming a member of Jackson, Sharp, and Miss Stallion.
Whereas I am unable to say this trailer blows me away, I additionally suspect this is not the kind of movie whose anarchic spirit may be readily encapsulated in a two-minute promo. “Dicks: The Musical” will probably be making its world premiere because the opening night time movie of Midnight Insanity in the course of the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, so presumably A24 is assured they have the subsequent potential cult low-budget musical hit on their fingers right here (à la “Anna and the Apocalypse,” “Repo! The Genetic Opera,” and so forth). I am principally simply amused this trailer performs up the very fact the movie was backed by “The Best Showman” producer Peter Chernin — as if the households who turned out for Hugh Jackman’s squeaky-clean Disneyfication of deplorable real-life con artist P.T. Barnum are going to be keen on watching A24’s newest.
“Dicks: The Musical” opens in theaters on September 29, 2023.