If your first thought on encountering a film called “Pizza Movie” is that it’s kind of a dumb title, don’t worry: Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher’s antic, frantic comedy is way ahead of you. Late in proceedings, a haphazard fourth-wall break throws us to the pair of writer-directors at their desk, agreeing with each other that the title isn’t right, but it’s also only temporary. “Forgetting” to change it, of course, is one of many missed details and sloppy errors that “Pizza Movie” feigns in its quest for chaotic stoner-movie cultdom — a “Dude, Where’s My Car?” for the Zoomer era, for better or worse or, ideally, both.
There’s an ironic challenge in retooling this genre for a generation famously more straight-edge than its living predecessors, though McElhaney and Kocher — nothing if not self-aware, as seasoned purveyors of internet sketch comedy — are on top of that,…
