Who ordered the pie with pepperoni, hallucinogens, and a nightmare fixing to shove a chainsaw up your ass? If you said Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney’s Pizza Movie, give yourself a gold star, and we’ll put a few extra garlic breadsticks in your order. Today, we’re interviewing Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo, Solar Opposites voice actor Sean Giambrone, and Becky’s Lulu Wilson for Pizza Movie, a madcap stoner comedy featuring ill-advised drug use, fascist Resident Advisors, giant squids, buckets of blood, and everything else to make for an unforgettable night of unhinged insanity.
While speaking with Gaten, Sean, and Lulu, we discover how much lube it takes to film two actors getting swallowed by a giant squid, what the actors think is a life-saving pizza, and their inspiration for acting in a film that’s a cross between Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and Dude, Where’s My Car?
In Pizza Movie, a shy college student and his reckless roommate set out on a simple mission to grab pizza, but after a strange dose of a mind-bending experimental drug, they’re thrust into a chaotic night of absurd encounters, wild hallucinations, and unexpected revelations that could change their lives forever.
Alex Maidy reviewed Pizza Movie for JoBlo as part of our SXSW coverage. In his review, Alex said, “Pizza Movie is too dumb to be great but is also too fun to be bad. It falls somewhere in the middle and will likely be the perfect movie to throw on in college dorm rooms around the country. I don’t foresee Montgomery and Jack turning into the stars of an ongoing franchise, but I had enough fun with the moments in this movie to give it another watch. McElhaney and Kocher packed a lot of material into Pizza Movie, which gives it a bit of an uneven tone. It shifts from funny to bizarre and back again, with many moments either undeveloped or wasted. As sketch comedy writers, there is some brilliance hidden within Pizza Movie, but it lacks an overall structure to let it work as well as it could have. I enjoyed Pizza Movie, but I think it works better as a series of moments rather than as a feature film. I know several scenes I will definitely watch again and again, and that makes this at least a moderate success from a pair of up-and-coming filmmaking talents. This is a movie designed to be enjoyed with a pizza and your mind-altering substance of choice.”
Pizza Movie comes to Hulu on April 3.
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