The director of Pizza Man Vs. the Dude has done something few directors are able or willing to do.
He has somehow found the ideal blend of bad acting, poor writing, and amateurish production quality and not only signed his real name on as its director, but then went on to show it to audiences under the presumption that it would entertain them. What results is the perfect storm of bad movie making that even I, a schlock aficionado, could barely sit through.
There is so much wrong and bad about this movie that the challenge of any reviewer would be to find something at least somewhat redeeming so as to, if for no other reason, add balance to the critique in hopes of attaining at least a veneer of objectivity.
But the fact is that this movie makes Attack of the Killer Tomatoes seem like Citizen Kane.
Filmed in Boise Idaho on budget of $10,000, Pizza Man Versus the Dude follows a businessman and a group of nightclub developers he has hired for an all night "energy party" where concepts and ideas for the design of a new club are to be explored. A tangential story line follows an anti hero pizza delivery man who is having the worst day of his already horrible life. To top it off the nightclub developers inadvertently summon a homicidal demon called Thed Ude, but not before ordering pizza to be delivered by, you guessed it, the movie's namesake, Mr. pizza man himself.
And it's all down hill from there.
The exposition phase of the movie is tolerable, but the writer/ director just doesn't seem to know what to do with the second act. And so we end up bumbling around a world of bad to soso humor captured by a point and shoot director who has no sense of what (at least) decent acting and cinematography can do for a movie.
The final act shows the inevitable conflict between the Pizza Man and The Dude (Thed Ude) with the typical outcome. Here it kind of felt like the director was phoning it in, due to the fact that the only sense of suspense driving my interest in the movie was in realizing that the movie was finally about to end.
The funny thing about this movie is that I think it's a great concept, and it's a shame the director didn't properly develop it. With some money and talent behind it, this could have been a cult fave, if not a classic.
As it stands, however, it just serves as a good example of how NOT to make a movie.
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