7.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Comedy • 2026 • 84 min
The Musical (2026)
The Musical (2026)
Overview
Doug, a frustrated playwright and middle school theater teacher, learns his ex is dating his nemesis, the school principal. To get revenge and cost him a Blue Ribbon Award, Doug secretly stages the most inappropriate play imaginable.
Starring Cast
Nevada Jose • Rob Lowe • Gillian Jacobs
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
7.4
Overview
Doug, a frustrated playwright and middle school theater teacher, learns his ex is dating his nemesis, the school principal. To get revenge and cost him a Blue Ribbon Award, Doug secretly stages the most inappropriate play imaginable.
Starring Cast
Nevada Jose • Rob Lowe • Gillian Jacobs
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: Medium
The Musical uses dark comedy to lampoon the absurd politics of middle school theater, where a bitter teacher stages a deliberately provocative 9/11 musical to sabotage his rival, exposing how identity grievances and personal agendas collide on both sides of the cultural divide.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: Medium
The Musical centers on a middle-school drama teacher who stages an outrageous production to sabotage his principal rival in a story driven by personal spite rather than social themes. Its cast reflects conventional mainstream representation without deliberate identity-driven casting choices.
Secondary
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Confidence: Medium
The Musical depicts a middle school drama teacher who forms a secret pact with students and explicitly instructs them not to tell their parents or other adults, positioning parental authority as an obstacle to be circumvented.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
The Musical presents no LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative centers on other elements without engaging queer identities, relationships, or related social issues in any visible way.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
The Musical offers no transgender characters or themes, centering instead on a dark comedy about a teacher staging an inappropriate play for personal revenge.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low
The Musical centers on an original story about a frustrated middle school theater teacher navigating personal and professional rivalries with no reimagining of canonically gendered characters from prior source material.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
The Musical is an original dark comedy with no source material, legacy characters, or historical figures whose established races are altered by casting.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low
Not depicted.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
N/A
10.0
Critic Ratings
6.3
6.0
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