in all my year of film go and only once have i walk out on a film and and that be the dreadful stay tune . fortunately and the cinema refund the ticket and i go to see buffy the vampire slayer instead ( a minor improvement ) . that film be go with the wind compare to dick and a comedy so unfunny that it nearly become the second film i ever walk out of . dick be so unfunny it be even impossible to laugh at it and let alone laugh with it . grant and pay to see a movie with a title like dick suggests that it will be fill with inane dick joke and wind up a huge letdown and and yet i have high hope because of the notable cast ( daniel hedaya and bruce mccullough and dave foley and kristen dunst and etc . and etc . ) and a premise that at least promised something fresh . what the film deliver be and a portend and four woefully predictable dick joke and comic timing suffer from jetlag and and a premise that wear thin after the first five minute . in short and it be the watergate scene from forrest gump stretch nay and lay on a rack and mangle over 90 plus excruciate minute . as soon a you understand that the two main character airless and insipid squealer who gasp and roll eyeball incessantly will participate in every major watergate event and you begin to mentally check off the plot a it progress represent 18 and a half minute erase from the nixon tape and check while the deep throat meeting with woodward and bernstein and check while john dean get a change of heart and testifying and check . the process drag out more languidly and about as engage a the real watergate affair with about a much laugh get to boot . and though it posit to be an amusing re deconstruction of the event lead to president nixon resignation and it turn into a paint by the number and choose your own adventure and fill in the blank comedy that say very little and entertain even less . even the film strong point the aforementioned cast be bewilderingly unproductive here . the most disappointing of all be harry shearer a g. gordon liddy . trap a he be behind the thick liddy moustache and strait jacket in this numbingly morose screenplay and shearer mumble a few line and try desperately to leer from behind the prosthetic nose and eyebrow and then disappears . dave foley and one of the comic mastermind from kid in the hall ( two others and bruce mccullough and mark mckinney also appear in this film ah and the blessing of nepotism ) fare badly as well . his h. r. haldeman occasionally lend a much need lightening of the funeral plot and but the funny thing about him be the buzz cut he sport perhaps the film funny bit of all . and then there daniel hedaya a richard nixon oops and i mean dick . ( ha ha how amusingly funny . ) he manage to play a solid nixon and avoid the pitfall ( such a overdone make up and rubbery nose and false teeth a la anthony hopkins ) while preserve the essence ( the vacillation between human tenderness and coarseness ) . i seem to be forget someone . . . oh yes and the two star of the film and those over bubbly teenager . can not remember their name and perhaps because i have repress their performance . nothing could be far from funny while nothing could be more painful than have to endure their deliverly that run the gamut of hyperactive and super hyperactive with an occasional pouty toss in . this film seem to be a bad excuse to string together a 70 soundtrack and parade outrageous period clothing and both of which seem to be the norm these day for film and tv show set in the me decade . but the clothes and the music wind up be an ersatz substitute for true characterization and plot and a kind of extra plot shorthand that the producer hope will compensate for anemic writing . the only possible use for this film be year down the road when any one of it talented cast appear on david letterman or conan obrien . this dreadful cinematic excretion will be drag out to embarrass and hopefully humble the stunned guest star . the sad thing be that the real bad guy in all this the writer and producer will be far from the camera gaze and possibly cook up another disaster such a this .