If you were wondering what the now grown-up Gaten Matarazzo’s next move would be after finishing Stranger Things, you’re gonna feel dumb for not guessing “stoner comedy.” He looks like he was built for it: shaggy hair, gentle yet goofy expression. Maybe he can parlay these types of roles into becoming a gazillion-dollar Hollywood producer someday, the way Seth Rogen did. Or maybe he’ll peak with Pizza Movie, coming to Hulu next month.
As is standard for protagonists in this tale, Matarazzo and his co-star Sean Giambrone (The Goldbergs, Solar Opposites) are two college losers looking for a thrill. They think they’ve found it when some kind of experimental pill winds up in a tin in their dorm. How’d it get there? The trailer doesn’t say. Why are the instructions provided by a video starring an in-your-face YouTuber woman? It doesn’t explain that either. What she does say — and they don’t play this part of the video until they’re under the effects of the drug — is that it has to be taken with pizza or they’ll trip out so hard that they die.
Since that bit of information was perceived post-intoxication, it’s as suspect as everything else. But Pizza Movie takes the whole concept of hallucinogens to its extreme, trapping the two boys in a cartoon world that defies logic. Their heads even explode several times. The only way out, as far as they know? Eat pizza, which you’d think would not be hard to find on a college campus, but you just know is now going to be the scarcest food product in the universe.
In addition to Matarazzo and Giambrone, Pizza Movie stars Lulu Wilson as the Mid-Movie Third Participant, Jack Martin, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Marcus Scribner, Caleb Hearon, Sarah Sherman, Justin Cooley, Kevin Matthew Reyes, Adam Herschman, and Lucas Zelnick. The trailer also promises the voice of Daniel Radcliffe as a talking butterfly. It premieres at the SXSW Film Festival later today, but debuts for most people on Hulu April 3




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