College comedies usually sell freedom, bad judgment, and one long night that gets out of hand. “Pizza Movie” seems to want all of that, but with the walls melting too. Hulu has unveiled the first trailer for the new film from Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher, the sketch-comedy duo better known as BriTANicK, whose background includes writing for “Saturday Night Live” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”
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The premise is stupid in exactly the right way. A shy college student and his reckless roommate head out on what should be a simple pizza mission, then wind up shoved into a drug-fueled spiral of bizarre encounters, hallucinations, and life-altering fallout after taking an experimental substance. Hulu’s own tagline says it plainly: “College is a trip.” That is either a warning or a mission statement. Probably both.
Gaten Matarazzo and Sean Giambrone lead the film, with a supporting cast that includes Lulu Wilson, Jack Martin, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Marcus Scribner, Caleb Hearon, Sarah Sherman, Justin Cooley, Kevin Matthew Reyes, Adam Herschman, and Lucas Zelnick. On the production side, Jeremy Garelick and Will Phelps produce for American High, Billy Rosenberg produces for All Things Comedy, and Matarazzo also serves as an executive producer.
There is a nice built-in tension to the setup. The hook is tiny—two roommates trying to get pizza—while the pitch around it sounds determined to blow that errand into a full-on hallucinatory campus odyssey. That kind of small-stakes premise with oversized chaos is usually where stoner comedies either find a cult pulse or collapse under their own cleverness. BriTANicK has spent years working in sketch-sized bursts; this looks like a feature built around seeing whether that manic sensibility can hold for 90-plus minutes.
The film will world premiere on Friday, March 13, at SXSW and premiere on April 3 on Hulu and Disney+. Watch the trailer below.
