You’ve seen A24 films about somewhat literal man-eating aliens (“Under the Skin“), people being turned into walruses (“Tusk”), farting corpses (“Swiss Army Man“), talking shells (“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On“), and the multiverse (“Everything Everywhere All at Once“).
Now, the studio is trying its hand at a musical for the first time with “Dicks: The Musical,” a film that, contrary to my expectations the first time I saw that title, is not about singing penises.
I mean, A24 only just made a film featuring a giant penis monster, so it wasn’t out of the question.Backing up — “Dicks: The Musical” comes from relative newcomers Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, who both wrote the film — which is based on their original two-person stage musical “F***ing Identical Twins” — and star as a pair of obnoxious business bros who find out they’re literal twins and conspire to get their divorced parents back together.
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