A deliberately absurd stoner quest with a strong cult-comedy premise and enough visual invention to be worth a look, especially if you enjoy movies that turn a tiny errand into a surreal odyssey. The concept sounds like it can sustain a lot of inventive gags, but the appeal will depend heavily on whether the film’s… Read more
21% ★☆☆☆☆ (152,607)
Pizza Movie
Where to watch: Hulu
Movie · Comedy · Adventure · R
2026 · 1h 38m · ★ 21% (153K)
College is a trip.
Director: Nick Kocher, Brian McElhaney
Starring: Gaten Matarazzo, Sean Giambrone, Lulu Wilson
Overview
A group of college students go downstairs to their dorm lobby to get a delivery pizza. There's only one issue: They're insanely high on a homemade drug, turning their simple journey down two sets of stairs into a mind-bendingly transformative quest.
Director
Nick Kocher, Brian McElhaney
Production
American High, All Things Comedy, LD Entertainment
Cast
Gaten Matarazzo, Sean Giambrone, Lulu Wilson, Jack Martin, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Marcus Scribner, Caleb Hearon, Chris Schmidt Jr., Sarah Sherman, Miguel-Andres Garcia, Justin Cooley, Luke Burke, Hyde Healy, Abigail Wood, Mia Cavallero, Shiv Pai, Ryan Micho, Lydia Hines, Tommy Armstrong, Kevin Matthew Reyes
Where to watch
Hulu
Curator Review
Verdict
A deliberately absurd stoner quest with a strong cult-comedy premise and enough visual invention to be worth a look, especially if you enjoy movies that turn a tiny errand into a surreal odyssey. The concept sounds like it can sustain a lot of inventive gags, but the appeal will depend heavily on whether the film’s joke density and style stay sharp for the full runtime.
Best for
fans of surreal stoner comedies
viewers who like high-concept one-location or micro-quest premises
people who enjoy offbeat, reference-heavy comedy
audiences open to messy, joke-forward cult films
Skip if
you want a grounded plot or emotional realism
you dislike drug humor or frantic absurdity
you prefer tightly structured, plot-driven comedies
you need broad, polished mainstream comedy
Overview
Pizza Movie takes a gloriously stupid premise and commits to it with real confidence: a pizza run becomes a psychedelic descent through dorm-life chaos, with the stairs themselves turned into a comic obstacle course. The best versions of this kind of movie live or die on escalation, and this one seems built around visual invention, deadpan weirdness, and the pleasure of watching ordinary space mutate into a fever dream.
Worth noting
The Letterboxd reaction suggests a split but lively response: plenty of viewers are clearly on board with the nonsense, while others bounce off the chaos fast. That tracks with the film’s likely appeal. It sounds less like a clean crowd-pleaser than a cult-comedy experiment that rewards people who enjoy references, odd rhythms, and a willingness to be very, very silly.
Bottom line
If you’re in the mood for a movie that treats a pizza delivery like an epic quest and keeps finding new ways to make that premise stranger, it’s probably worth the ride. If you want coherence, restraint, or a story that behaves itself, this is almost certainly not your slice.
Top Letterboxd reviews
matty_thew (5★) · 10666 likes
This is the best movie I’ve ever seen in my life. I am from Israel