Dick's premise is that two giggly teens (Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams) manage to get invited into the Nixon White House by accidentally witnessing the Watergate break-in. Once inside, their dopey antics shape history--whether slipping hash cookies to Kissinger and Brezhnev, or serving as "Deep Throat" for vain, bickering Bob Woodward (Will Ferrell) and Carl Bernstein (Bruce McCullough).

If Dick had been made 25 years ago, its feeble gags might've at least seemed topical. But why was this made today? The director, Andrew Fleming, seems more interested in period detail than politics: Dick treats Nixon as another funny piece of '70s bric-a-brac, and Dan Hedaya makes him a stubbly Scooby Doo villain. The result isn't satire; it's more like Haldeman and Ehrlichman's High School Reunion.