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Review: Parody, melody and blasphemy come together in 'Dicks: The Musical'

Nathan Lane, left, and Megan Mullally in the movie“ Dicks: The Musical.”.

If you like your "Parent Trap" riffs with heaping helpings of horny humor, insane musical numbers and a soupcon of monsters in diapers, then "Dicks: The Musical" may be your jam, especially if blasphemy is your bliss.

To be clear, this film version of an off-Broadway musical comedy (the name of which this family newspaper will publish as "F—ingwritten by homosexuals. Then Bowen Yang shows up as disco-fied God ("He/Him," He asserts), and we're off.

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