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After a well-deserved break from the general public eye, Grammy-winning rapper Megan Thee Stallion is again — in essentially the most ridiculous approach doable.
Think about a musical film about dicks — not simply two smug white jerks named Trevor and Craig (performed by the movie’s writers, Aaron Jackson and Joshua Sharp) who discover out they’re equivalent twins and desperately attempt to “Dad or mum Entice” their household (performed by Meghan Mullally and Nathan Lane) again collectively. But additionally precise dicks. And a fallen-off vagina. And homosexual incest. And a homosexual God performed by comic Bowen Yang. It exists, and it’s known as “Dicks: The Musical.” As one can think about from the title and synopsis, it’s not for the pearl-clutching faint of coronary heart.
This movie could look like the final place one would discover the twerk captain, bar-spitting, Sizzling Woman Coach. And but, her musical numbers as Gloria, Trevor and Craig’s boss in “Dicks,” are a few of the finest on this riotous, wacky movie.
Megan’s raps have all the time been full of lyrics about taking again management of her life and tales concerning the males and haters who’ve tried to convey her down. However as her real-life assailant who shall not be named begins his 10-year bid in jail, there’s one thing additional candy about seeing Megan as Gloria reclaim her high spot in bars and put the boys who’re disrespecting her again of their place — all whereas having the time of her life in a fully bonkers film. Although Mullally and Lane are clear stars on this movie and seeing Sonya Eddy on display screen once more after her passing late final yr is a vivid spot, Megan Thee Stallion’s scenes take the cake on this romp about dicks.
“Out Alpha the Alpha” is her primary showstopping rap and dance quantity the place she responds to Trevor and Craig calling her a “bitch”: “I’ll present you two bitches a bitch.”
Whereas itemizing all of the ways in which patriarchy has empowered males to oppress girls and all of the names they’ve known as her (shrill, slut, loopy, bitch, whore, and so forth.) to maintain her in her place, Gloria encourages girls to take again their energy “put your foot on their necks in the event that they’re standing in your approach.
“These males are fucking dinosaurs about to be destroyed, and I’m the asteroid,” she raps as she walks males in collars and fits on all fours like canine. This is perhaps Gloria’s theme music, however Megan too has outworked, outfoxed and outsmarted all of her opps. It’s nice she has one other outlet to brag and luxuriate in her hard-won success.
Whereas this isn’t her first appearing function (she had auditioned for a task on “P-Valley,” which she didn’t get however wound up enjoying her alter ego Tina Snow in season two and had a visitor spot on “She Hulk”) and gained’t be her final (Netflix introduced final week that Megan Thee Stallion had joined the solid of the animated hit “Huge Mouth”), her “Dicks: The Musical” function is proof that this star will shine on any stage.
“Dicks: The Musical” will premiere in theaters on Oct. 6.
Brooke Obie is an award-winning critic, screenwriter and creator of the historic novel “E-book of Addis: Cradled Embers.”
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