Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2026)
Directed by Matt Johnson
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
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Director
Robert Zemeckis
Critics compare Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie to 2 of Zemeckis’s films.
…lovingly inspired by Back to the Future, and with it he decks out their RV in ‘time travel’ gear…
…a time travel story is crafted that’s so unabashed in its celebration of Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future, it feels unreal that it’s even on our screens…
Imagine Flight of the Conchords mixed with a home-made Back to the Future, and you have some idea what to expect.
…convert their RV van into a time machine and travel back to 2008, in true Back to the Future fashion. What begins as a ridiculous fantasy becomes real once the RV hits 88 miles per hour…
McCarrol’s music, inspired by the original Back To The Future score…
…its imaginative homage to Back to the Future…
Interacting with 2008 footage a la Forrest Gump…
…capaz de combinar el espíritu de Jackass, Portlandia y The Office…
A sequence involving Toronto’s CN Tower — shot vérité, with punky Jackass energy…
Johnson and McCarrol’s weird mix of Jackass, Portlandia, and Letterkenny is undented…
Of course, he owes much of the success of the series to the form-blurring experiments of Jackass, but Nirvanna is so much more than this.
A scene in which Johnson clocks a shift in his surroundings — via an uncensored Black Eyed Peas song and an eye-watering The Hangover gag — is a genius moment of dawning realisation.
…cinema audiences were laughing it up at The Hangover…
…a time when blockbusters like The Hangover earned laughs by ways of derogatory slurs…
Matt’s mugging through an ill-timed Hangover screening…
…one of the funniest moments of self-realization that Todd Phillips’ The Hangover is a really bad film…
Matt and Jay enjoy a screening of The Hangover before they realise anything is wrong…
It's like if someone spliced Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Beavis and Butt-Head Do America and doused it in maple syrup.
…adopting a Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure style of conversations that overlap and make no sense…
Clearly ripping from time travel comedies like Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Back to the Future…
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The science fiction elements dive into the world of time travel and the dangers of utilizing it for your advantage (reference The Butterfly Effect).
Here they interact with their past selves, and end up changing the future "like that Ashton Kutcher movie". They mean The Butterfly Effect rather than Dude, Where’s My Car?
Sad (e.g. Looper, The Butterfly Effect)…
…capaz de combinar el espíritu de Jackass, Portlandia y The Office…
Johnson and McCarrol’s weird mix of Jackass, Portlandia, and Letterkenny is undented…
Imagine Flight of the Conchords mixed with a home-made Back to the Future, and you have some idea what to expect.
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol are essentially the modern Flight of the Conchords, a band with high aspirations with sights on the stars.
No, absolutely not, but neither did making a hot tub a time machine in the aptly named Hot Tub Time Machine and here we are.
Goofy (e.g. Back to the Future, Hot Tub Time Machine)…
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Director
Jeff Tremaine
Critics compare Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie to 2 of Tremaine’s films.
It somehow feels more dangerous and unethical than several “hidden camera” prank films that were released in recent memory, notably Jeff Tremaine’s Academy Award-nominated Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa and Kitao Sakurai’s Bad Trip.
…as newcomers are used to this kind of humor thanks to films like Borat and Bad Grandpa.
Much like the recent Jackass Forever, it’s a prank film about the passage of time…
If Tim Robinson’s excellent 2025 bromance horror show Friendship bore the tagline “Men shouldn’t have friends”, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’s rejoinder ought to be, ‘Men have never needed friends more’.
Between the Tim Robinson-led Friendship and the recent Naked Gun reboot, it’s been a great year for theatrically-released comedies…