Gaten Matarazzo didn’t want to overthink his first post-Stranger Things commitment.
Personal enjoyment became the only real criteria that a potential project had to meet, and BriTANick’s “stoner comedy for theater kids,” Pizza Movie, fit that bill to a T. The well-received hallucinogenic misadventure chronicles Jack (Matarazzo) and Montgomery’s (Sean Giambrone) dormitory quest for pizza in order to alleviate the ill effects of an off-brand drug they recklessly ingested. The college-set tale does have some mild overlap with the Duffer brothers’ smash hit that wrapped its storied run at the end of 2025. Jack and Montgomery play fantasy board games and are bullied by jocks, but the tone is such a left turn that any common threads with Matarazzo’s former series become an afterthought.
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