Fat Pizza
Fat Pizza
| 10 April 2003 (USA)
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Fat Pizza the Film is yet another slice of life at a dodgy suburban Sydney take away. Bobo Gigliotti the psychotic pizzeria owner/pizza chef is awaiting the arrival of his mail-order refugee bride Lin Chow Bang, and a new pizza deliverer is on the block. Channel V's Jabba almost steals the show as token skip delivery boy Davo Dinkum, a stoner with a bong strapped to his face like a feedbag.

Reviews
SanEat

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

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Rosie Searle

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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Jakoba

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

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Scarlet

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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vatlva

After initially deciding to switch off after thirty seconds, then being unable to find the remote, I instead looked at reviews of this film to see what the Hell was going on - the first line of the first review was something along the lines of 'typically Australian!' - then I instantly went into Australian film mode and managed to sit through the entire film.I am unfamiliar with most of these actors, I've never heard of the TV series or this film, and had no idea what to expect but I found my brain reminding me that I have also seen and enjoyed Bad Taste, Body Melt etc - and enjoyed them - that's when I clicked what typically-Australian actually means. Basically, they do not give one single solitary sh*t what people think of them as there are never any consequences for the Aussies after being politically incorrect, overly-vulgar, exploitative or rude and that is why I enjoyed the film so much. Real breath of fresh air.I have read that this is a low budget production - I don't know whether that is true especially given this movie has a cast of hundreds of people, lots of motorcycles and muscle cars getting smashed up, lots of different filming locations etc but I really wish someone responsible for the terrible conveyor belt of British low budget 'comedies' and 'thrillers' would look at this to get a better idea of how to do an entertaining film without needing world famous actors, amazing special effects or a real story, as I've been bearing witness lately to the destruction of the lower end of the UK film industry by people who don't seem to have the foggiest idea what they are doing.So, what did I learn about the Sydney suburbs as a newcomer to this franchise? Well, there are hardly any white caucasian people and those that exist are inbred drug dealing lowlifes and bikies - the rest of the population consists of Arabs, Asians and African Caribbeans, all of who are criminals. Most of the women have smoking hot bodies but faces like smacked-arses and the police are all completely incapable of policing. And there are more than a few dwarfs.Sounds like my sort of town....

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drmilo-1

This cheap POS is unbelievably bad.The jokes aren't funny, often it's just grossness as a cheap humor substitute, the rest of time they're just flat, and even if they were they are so obviously coming that all of the humor has dissipated by the time that they arrive.The characters are cardboard and even if they weren't the actors all look like they are playing drunkenly drawn caricatures. Furthermore the actors are so obviously playing to a camera and getting cues that even if the first 2 problems with the character depiction weren't there you'd still have the realism of the typical elementary school Christmass play.This movie looks cheap, not just low budget but tacky colors and deserted scenes along with ham handed camera work make it look even cheaper than it likely was.God this sucks!

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LennyRenquist

It's been said that this movie sets Australian culture back 20 years. Whoever said that (I read it somewhere, but can't remember where) has his/her head in his/her armpit. It's the side of Australian culture outsiders rarely see. Illegal immigrants ARE arriving in leaky boats. Police ARE unfairly targeting ethnic minorities. Fast-food corporations (eg McDoggles) ARE being mean to the little guy (and I don't just mean Pauly). People ARE making speed in their backyards. Backpackers ARE being murdered.Though I'm sure that, when these things occur in the real world, they are nowhere near as funny as they are in Fat Pizza. This movie is utterly hilarious from beginning to end. Sure, the humour may not be everyone's cup of tea. I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable watching it with my Nanna.It's unfair to say there is no structure to the plot. There is. Just not a standard one. Which, in this age of Hollywood formula, should be regarded as a good thing. This movie breaks the rules, baby!If you enjoy watching the Pizza TV show on SBS, you'll have a blast. It's longer, with more jokes and cameos crammed in. A family-size Pizza, if you like.If I had to choose between Fat Pizza and Kangaroo Jack as a representation of Australian culture, I'd choose Fat Pizza in a second.

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John Frame

Fat Pizza is an extreme big-screen version of the Australian television series of the same name. Regular narration by writer/producer/director/star Paul Fenech's character "Pauly" provides a feasible link for a range of events surrounding pizza-chef Bobo's impending mail-order marriage.Rap music, ethnic rivalry, anglo-ignorance, street gangs, illegal immigrants, sex, drugs, religion and sexuality: Fat Pizza handles all these topics with absolute irreverence.There's a "cast of thousands" of Australian sport and TV icons playing small parts (with the late gay television identity Bernard King appearing several times as a leather daddy tempting Fat Pizza's delivery boys). Delivery boy/rapper Sleek also finds himself irresistibly responding to gay men, even though he thinks he's a chick magnet.Fat Pizza is unapologetically Australian, with a huge thumping soundtrack, and fast pace. Paul Fenech has created a major work of contemporary Australian piss-taking.

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