'Dicks: The Musical' trailer: A24 breaks into song, breaks your brain

Megan Thee Stallion, Nathan Lane, and more.
By Caitlin Welsh  on 
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So, you know how A24 has never done a movie musical? (No, Oscar Isaac dancing in Ex Machina doesn't count.) That's about to change. And it involves Megan Thee Stallion, a heart necklace, and eldritch horrors right out of Mad God. who are apparently known as the Sewer Boys.

Oh, and it's a Parent Trap plot.

Based on a two-man show that writers and stars Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp first staged at Chicago cult comedy creche Upright Citizens' Brigade nearly a decade ago, Dicks: The Musical used to be called Fucking Identical Twins. It's the story of two business guys with terrible personalities who discover they're long-lost identical twin brothers (played by Sharp and Jackson, who are, you may notice, not at all identical).

Naturally, they hatch a plan to reunite their divorced parents (Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally, both nibbling the scenery like a martini olive), but that goal seems doomed from the start.

It's hammy, hairy, and has no business being anything but hilarious. It'll make a hell of a double feature with Saw X.

Dicks: The Musical is in theaters Sept. 29.

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Caitlin Welsh

Caitlin is Mashable's Australian Editor. She has written for The Guardian, Junkee, and any number of plucky little music and culture publications that were run on the smell of an oily rag and have since been flushed off the Internet like a dead goldfish by their new owners. She also worked at Choice, Australia's consumer advocacy non-profit and magazine, and as such has surprisingly strong opinions about whitegoods. She enjoys big dumb action movies, big clever action movies, cult Canadian comedies set in small towns, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Replacements, smoky mezcal, revenge bedtime procrastination, and being left the hell alone when she's reading.


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