Line #27 Film/DicksTheMusical


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3	''Dicks: The Musical'' is a 2023 musical comedy film directed by Larry Charles (''Film/{{Borat}}'') and written by Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp based upon their off-Broadway musical ''Fucking Identical Twins''. It stars Jackson, Sharp, Creator/NathanLane, Creator/MeganMullally, Creator/BowenYang, and Music/MeganTheeStallion.
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5	The film follows two rival businessmen who discover they’re identical twins and set out to get their parents back together… a task made more difficult due to the fact that their dad is gay. Billed as Creator/{{A24}}’s first musical, ''Dicks: The Musical'' premiered at TIFF on September 3, 2023, before releasing wide on September 9.
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7	'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/SQDmT_Cih2Q?si=h2ndk5csrH7rOvsW Trailer]]
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9	!!''Dicks: The Musical'' contains examples of the following:
10	* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: Evelyn claims multiple times to be 94, which, if true, would make her no younger than 57 when she gave birth to the twins. Craig-as-Trevor even says "that can't be right" when she says it the first time. Mitigating this is she also claims not to remember when she was born.
11	* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The family goes into the sewer to find the escaped Sewer Boys and it has lots of room to move around in. Harris even managed to get a boat into it in the backstory.
12	* AllegedLookalikes: Stallion’s character states that Craig and Trevor could be twins, despite it being clear to both the brothers and the audience that they look only vaguely similar. Notably, Craig has brown eyes while Trevor's are blue. God tells the audience they are identical twins and [[LampshadeHanging anticipates them not believing him.]] However, they do ''act'' incredibly similar, both being the top salesman at the same company and even being shown next to doors labeled 69a and 69b respectively.
13	* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear which of the many absurd claims Evelyn makes about herself to Craig-as-Trevor are true. At least one that would be impossible in real life is confirmed to be.
14	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Vaginas falling off and becoming sentient and sewer gremlins kept as pets may be strange, but they're definitely not unheard of. When bisexuality is brought up on the other hand, the response is "now I've heard everything."
15	* BlackBossLady: Gloria, the twins' boss, as portrayed by Megan Thee Stallion, is very efficient and no-nonsense.
16	* BlatantLies: The opening narration claims this is the first time a gay person has ever written anything.
17	* CampStraight: Both Craig and Trevor are extremely campy and effeminate men played by openly gay actors who the audience are nonetheless told numerous times are heterosexual ladies men. [[spoiler: Crosses over into TransparentCloset by the end, when the two profess their love for each other, have graphic sex, and get married.]]
18	* CharacterAsHimself: The Sewer Boys - bizarre, gremlin-like creatures portrayed by puppets - are given the AndStarring credit in the trailer.
19	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Both of the parents act very bizarre. Trevor's Mother is shown to ramble about various odd things about her and Craig's Dad, while appearing to just be a rich, out of touch man at first, is deeply obsessed with what he calls 'Sewer Boys' a pair of feral, vicious ''things'' that he keeps locked up in a cage and who feed on blood.
20	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Trevor-as-Craig is freaking out about the Sewer Boys, Harris assures him it's fine to take a while to adjust to him coming out as gay.
21	* CompanionCube: Evelyn has become friends with various inanimate objects in her home, giving them names like Jerome and Patricia.
22	* CompanyCrossReferences: At one point in the trailer a theater marquee reads ''X24 Presents: Everyone, Everywhere Cums at Once'', an obvious reference to [[Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce one of A24's most well-known films]].
23	* CondescendingCompassion: Parodied in the introductory texts, which repeatedly state how brave it is for gay men to do things like write stories and play heterosexual characters.
24	* TheDividual: Craig and Trevor have the same personality, lead identical lives, and are only really two separate people so that the film's deliberately trite TwinSwitch plot can happen. Craig is shown to be slightly more pessimistic than Trevor for the sake of their PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure, but outside of this their most distinguishing features are ([[AllegedLookalikes ironically]]) their physical appearances. A RunningGag even has the two accidentally calling themselves by the other's name, showing that even ''they'' can't meaningfully distinguish each other.
25	* FriendsWithBenefits: Harris and Evelyn decide to remain friends and occasionally have sex after reuniting.
26	* GagPenis: Trevor claims to have a penis a total of 17-inches long, but it turns out that while it is large, it's only slightly larger than average.
27	* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Both Craig and Trevor are definitely straight, according to the opening narration, God, and themselves. They even say "no homo" after saying they want to be brothers despite that seeming not to need to be clarified. [[spoiler: Ironically, they do end up getting into a sexual and romantic relationship [[{{Twincest}} with each other.]]]]
28	* HilariousOuttakes: A series of outtakes cover the credits.
29	* HumanPet: The song "Out-Alpha the Alpha" ends with a shot of Gloria walking several of her leashed male employees like dogs.
30	* {{Hypocrite}}: Gloria repeatedly complains about the patriarchy and wishes for a world full of equity, while simultaneously proving herself to be a horrible ''misandrist'' who treats men like trash, although considering what most of these men are like, her actions aren't entirely wrong.
31	* InformedAbility: Craig and Trevor are ostensibly excellent salesmen who regularly push tens of thousands of dollars in product over single phone calls, but the audience never gets to see them in action. And while they claim their sales skills will assist them in reuniting their parents, their attempts to do so are comically slapdash at best.
32	* InformedAttribute: Craig and Trevor are stated at various points to be macho alpha male types but come across much more strongly as catty and effeminate gay men.
33	* {{Jerkass}}: If the movie's title didn't clue you in, Craig and Trevor are both selfish assholes who freely and carelessly ruin the lives of others for the sake of their own gain. The song "You Can't Give Up" is all about how the two harm others to get their way [[LyricalDissonance disguised as an uplifting inspirational number]]. Their boss Gloria is no better, and freely states that she only values her employees for the amount of money the can make her while physically abusing the males.
34	* LemonyNarrator: God occasionally provides narration and quippy commentary into the story. At one point, he cuts in just to praise a musical number.
35	* MundaneFantastic: The story is about hotshot salesman twins separated at birth wanting their parents to get back together, that also happens to feature gremlin-like "Sewer Boys", God casually interacting with the characters, and a character's vagina detaching from her body and becoming sentient.
36	* NoBisexuals: InUniverse, when Harris realizes he is attracted to both men and women, he continues to call himself "both gay and straight" and Evelyn finds that to be even stranger than anything else that has happened.
37	* OnlySaneByComparison: Craig and Trevor are idiotic, childish dickheads, yet come across as downright sensible when opposite their deranged parents.
38	* OverlyLongGag: In one scene, Evelyn tries to get Craig-as-Trevor to grab one of her knick-knacks while adamantly refusing to describe it, simply pointing in its direction, resulting in him grabbing close to a dozen wrong things with no clarification.
39	* PaperThinDisguise: The twins disguising as each other amounts to them both wearing shitty-looking wigs that loosely resembles the other's hairstyle. While their status as AllegedLookalikes allows them to pull it off, both of their parents clock the clearly fake hair almost immediately.
40	* RapidFireNo: Trevor-as-Craig [[BigNo shouts "No!"]] multiple times in a row upon seeing the sewer boys.
41	* ShapedLikeItself: Evelyn claims she makes her own sand out of sand.
42	* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Both Harris and Evelyn say they don't remember their son's hair being so "cheap and shitty-looking" when they attempt to pass as each other.
43	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
44	** Evelyn and Harris both claim they only have one son, while Evelyn says she could have had another son just like him but didn't, because she "had a vasectomy one second after [he was] born."
45	** With the benefit of hindsight, the twins [[spoiler: saying no homo after saying they want to be brothers, and then falling in love with each other anyway.]]
46	* TwinSwitch: Craig and Trevor switch places to trick their parents into remarrying. PlayedForLaughs in that there's no real reason for them to disguise as each other for their plot to work and both of their parents comment on their [[PaperThinDisguise terrible wigs]].
47	* {{Twincest}}: [[spoiler: Played for laughs. At the end rather than their parents getting ready, Craig and Trevor, "twin" brothers, get married. Everyone rejoices.]]
48	* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheParentTrap1961'' (and [[Film/TheParentTrap1998 its remake]]). Twins separated at birth to live with one parent each meet and try to trick the parents into remarrying... only this time, the twins are adult men and there are more difficult obstacles in getting the characters married. [[spoiler: They ultimately fail but [[{{Twincest}} get married themselves.]]]]
49	* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Trevor-as-Craig shouts "Those are their ''names''?" upon learning that Harris named the Sewer Boys "Backpack" and "Whisper."

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