Pizza
by Mark Christopher
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Actor: Ethan Embry, Joey Kern, Julie Hagerty, Kylie Sparks, Martin CampettaDirector: Mark Christopher
Brand: Genius
Writer: Mark Christopher
Producer: Caroline Kaplan
Producer: Celeste Jackson
Producer: Gary Winick
Producer: Holly Becker
Producer: Howard Gertler
Producer: Jake Abraham
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 79613
Studio: Ifc
DVD Reviews of Pizza
DVD Review: A lot of potential, but (wait for it...) Pizza doesn't deliver.
Summary: 2 Stars
Pizza (Mark Christopher, 2005)
In 1998, Mark Christopher directed 54. It became one of the sleeper hits of the year and has turned into a bona fide cult sensation since. And then he disappeared. Vanished into the wind like Keyser Soze until 2005, when Pizza appeared. I don't know where Christopher was that entire seven years. Surfing off the coast of Bora Bora, maybe? He certainly couldn't have been trying to get Pizza made for that entire length of time. Even if it was a pet project, he had to have seen how mediocre it is. Didn't he? In any case, it finally did get made, and the end result is a movie chock full of very talented, yet underutilized, Hollywood stars playing quirky characters. But I have gotten ahead of myself.
Cara-Ethyl (Complete Savages' Kylie Sparks in her only big-screen appearance) is just about to turn eighteen and doesn't have a friend in the world. Her mother (Confessions of a Shopaholic's Julie Hagerty) has thrown her a big birthday party, but since she blinded herself temporarily while frying doughnuts, is unaware that no one came. No one, that is, until Matt (FreakyLinks' Ethan Embry) shows up with a pizza delivery. Cara-Ethyl latches onto him immediately, to the point of convincing him to take her on the rest of his deliveries for the evening. The expected episodic mode with quirky characters ensues, with pieces of Cara-Ethyl's high school career interweaved into the story.
It's not a bad idea. In fact, it's a rather likable idea. But it's summed up quite nicely by a scene where Matt and Cara-Ethyl deliver a couple of pizzas to Cara-Ethyl's high school drama teacher, who's been listening to Cara-Ethyl audition for school plays for three years, always dismissing her with a "nice voice" and never calling back. Well, he's drunk, so he has her audition again in the living room. And there's the potential there; you can see that if she could let go of her extreme self-consciousness, she could probably belt out show tunes with the best of them. But she gets the same "nice voice, nice voice," and when they leave, she turns to Matt and says, "I suck, don't I?" You see, she knows. And so, I think, does Christopher.
It could be a lot worse, though. The movie's problems lie entirely in its script, which forces its characters to be quirky, rather than letting them develop naturally as quirky characters (viz. The Safety of Objects, for example). The cast does the best they can with the material they've got. Embry is very good in whatever he turns his mind to, and Sparks nails the part of the whiny teenager who just thinks that if she can get out on her own, she will suddenly blossom into maturity (and who consistently makes bad decisions as a result). The rest of the cast includes such indie stalwarts as Judah Friedlander, Mary Birdsong, Jesse McCartney, and Alexis Dziena (sultry as ever), and all of them are relatively good. Christopher's mistake, I think, was trying to shoehorn a screwball comedy formula into the oh-so-hip ironic-meta comedy frame. We do have evidence that such a thing can work (viz. Zombieland and The Hangover), but it is rare at best. Pizza has its moments, but ultimately fails. **
Description of Pizza
A pizza deliveryman develops a bond with a girl nearly half his age. Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 04/17/2007 Starring: Ethan Embry Alexis Dziena Run time: 80 minutesBestsellers in DVD
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