{"id":384156,"date":"2026-03-14T02:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T02:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/384156\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T02:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T02:41:06","slug":"pizza-movie-review-gaten-matarazzo-goes-from-stranger-to-sillier-things-in-a-goofy-bad-trip-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/384156\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pizza Movie\u2019 Review: Gaten Matarazzo Goes from Stranger to Sillier Things in a Goofy Bad-Trip Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

If your first thought on encountering a film called \u201cPizza Movie<\/a>\u201d is that it\u2019s kind of a dumb title, don\u2019t worry: Brian McElhaney<\/a> and Nick Kocher<\/a>\u2019s antic, frantic comedy is way ahead of you. Late in proceedings, a haphazard fourth-wall break throws us to the pair of writer-directors at their desk, agreeing with each other that the title isn\u2019t right, but it\u2019s also only temporary. \u201cForgetting\u201d to change it, of course, is one of many missed details and sloppy errors that \u201cPizza Movie<\/a>\u201d feigns in its quest for chaotic stoner-movie cultdom \u2014 a \u201cDude, Where\u2019s My Car?\u201d for the Zoomer era, for better or worse or, ideally, both.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an ironic challenge in retooling this genre for a generation famously more straight-edge than its living predecessors, though McElhaney and Kocher \u2014 nothing if not self-aware, as seasoned purveyors of internet sketch comedy \u2014 are on top of that,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If your first thought on encountering a film called \u201cPizza Movie\u201d is that it\u2019s kind of a dumb…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[1241,1242,434,1243,18,117,1237,1239,19,17,327,5,1240,1238,128],"class_list":["post-384156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116225224406614562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}