Peas and Carrots starts as a rote high school coming-of-age story, but soon devolves into something much more bizarre. It's sort of like if there was a Kidz Bop version of a lost David Lynch movie: a socially awkward kid of former rock musicians gets sucked into an alternate reality, which is the set of a Disney-esque sitcom where all the actors only speak the titular nonsensical phrase.

There's something interesting here in Evan Oppenheimer's opaque approach, and there are moments where the neon purple hues suggest an identity-searching vehicle like I Saw the TV Glow . But only briefly, as this 90-minute slog is boondoggled by stilted acting, odd pacing, and an utterly confounding dual-plot narrative that only intersects if you squint hard enough.

It isn't just the plotting that's o

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