Dicks: The Musical Review – Unfunny, Annoying Film With A Couple Of Bright Spots

Sometimes a movie comes along that is so outrageous and bizarre that it’s a wonder it was ever made. Dicks: The Musical is that film. Directed by Larry Charles from a screenplay by Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, who also wrote and starred in the off-Broadway musical the film is based on, Dicks: The Musical is weird, over the top, rarely as funny as it’s trying to be, and somewhat pretentious and very annoying. Its premise is interesting enough — it’s Parent Trap meets Broadway — but the musical is simply trying too hard to be funny, engineering its entire persona around seeing how far it can go.