{"id":385192,"date":"2026-03-14T17:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/385192\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:48:15","slug":"pizza-movie-film-authority-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/385192\/","title":{"rendered":"Pizza Movie – film-authority.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every generation has its own stoner duo; Cheech and Chong, Bill and Ted,<\/a> the guys in Dude Where\u2019s My Car? Clerks<\/a>, Harold and Kumar, Superbad, Pineapple Express, the illustrious line of munchie scoffers runs from 4.20pm to March 2026; the latest incarnation is Pizza Movie, which arrived piping hot for its world premiere at last night\u2019s South by Southwest festival. Gaten Matarazzo hit stardom via his role as Dustin Henderson in Stranger Things<\/a>, and doubles up with Sean Giambrone to play Jack and Montgomery, two goofballs in halls at a typical American college where most students are under the chemical cosh of experimental narcotics.<\/p>\n

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Pizza Movie kicks off in grand style with David Naughton\u2019s seminal 1978 self-confidence anthem Making It<\/a>, so we know the nostalgic-for-youth vibe; this is an anything-goes, consistently silly comedy that never takes itself seriously and exists primarily as a joke-delivery-system about being too stoned to function; the takeaway is, the gags are box fresh. Jack and Montgomery are hoping to navigate the \u2018swamp of vice and buffoons\u2019 that is college life, but after experiencing bullying by enforced-fart-inhalation and romantic-laundromat-frustration, they seek solace in mystery off-brand drugs they find in a mint tin, narcotics created ten years previously by Frankie (SNL\u2019s Sarah Sherman) .<\/p>\n

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If combined with pizza, these drugs\u00a0produce the desirable sensation of being on a \u2018cloud of lavender being sung to by lollipop pixies\u2019 but getting their mouths onto the freshly-ordered pizza proves a problem for the lads. They team up with Lizzy (Lulu Wilson) who has accidentally taken the same drug, but the trio find themselves up against Blake (Jack Martin) and his army of draconian and invasive RA (Resident Assistants) and their random room checks. There are six phases of the drug\u2019s LSD-style effect to contend with, including a delivery robot called Snackatron, Daniel Radcliffe voicing a butterfly and other mad scenarios.<\/p>\n

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Deadpan dialogue like \u2018You were reckless with the football team\u2019s dicks\u2026maybe you could think a bit more about other people\u2019s dicks?,\u2019 set the tone, but stoner comedies aren\u2019t as easy as they look; they need observation, energy and repeatable gags. There\u2019s musical references to Sondheim, but not the one you think of, we\u2019re talking \u2018clown-core vomit-opera\u2019 music, you know, the \u2018non-consensual death metal\u2019 Sondheim best known for his song \u2018My mother pisses death.\u2019 It\u2019s also funny (to me anyway) that the use of curse words causes the boys\u2019 heads to explode, but \u2018not the C-word\u2019 and that\u2019s \u2018because it\u2019s a British drug from Manchester England\u2019. Them\u2019s the gags, and you can predict your reaction to this agreeably low-brow movie from here, but there\u2019s enough more good ones to make Pizza Movie well worth ordering when it arrives on Hulu in the US on April 3rd.<\/p>\n

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Although Montgomery\u2019s romance with Ashley (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) is a big motivator for him, it\u2019s his bromance with Jack which is the real fulcrum of the comedy. Matarazzo has a Rich Moranis thing going beyond the thick glasses, and the two of them do a good job of making their double-act funny as they find themselves \u2018tripping their balls off.\u2019 Given that most of America seems to be high on something right now, there\u2019s possibilities that \u2018third party chargers\u2019 and creatively-used stepladders could become shared cultural reference points for today\u2019s youth. Could it happen in such divisive times? \u2018We are all Juan\u2019 is the film\u2019s answer. The addled-brain-child of writers Brian McElhaney and Nick Koche and directors Brian McElhaney and Nick Koches, this is a pretty funny movie for stoners, bong-rippers, pot-pushers and anyone who enjoys silly, self-referential comedy taken to absurd but chemically-controlled heights. Grab yourself a slice\u2026<\/p>\n

Pizza Movie delivers April 3 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+. Thanks for access.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every generation has its own stoner duo; Cheech and Chong, Bill and Ted, the guys in Dude Where\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[176317,25887,22613,1887,718,18,117,176318,13930,19,17,83568,327,176319,176320,47344,170639,9915,66705,175840,176321,27613,41094],"class_list":["post-385192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-brian-mcelhaney","tag-college","tag-daniel-radcliffe","tag-disney","tag-drugs","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-gaten-materazzo","tag-hulu","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lulu-wilson","tag-movies","tag-nick-koche","tag-peyton-elizabeth-lee","tag-pizza","tag-pizza-movie","tag-robots","tag-sarah-sherman","tag-sean-giambrone","tag-stoner","tag-stranger-things","tag-youth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116228790988938563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385192","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=385192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}