☆ Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie Review ☆

★★★★★

I've been hearing really good things circling around this film for awhile, so on Saturday night my boyfriend and I settled on the couch and turned the movie on as we engorged on homemade coconut shrimp I painstakingly made. It was pretty good. The movie was even better. 

This duo I'd never heard of before, which as a self-proclaimed hipster I was very disappointed in myself for not discovering them sooner. I mean, I was probably too young at the peak of their popularity. They were a 2007 web-series turned 2017 TV show turned feature length film this year. A Canadian time travel film that encompasses layered jokes, callbacks, betrayal, and most of all, a decades long semi-homoerotic male friendship. Right up my alley. I can't remember the last time I laughed as often as I did during a film. It did so many of my favorite kinds of jokes. Subversive jokes, audio cutting off at the perfect time to move on to the next scene without warning. The kind of chaotic humor that Gen Z gravitates towards like moth to a flame. 

It came at a perfect time, bridging the gap of millennial optimism and Gen Z cynicism towards the future in the form of a comprehensible time travel film heavily, heavily inspired by Back To The Future. It's an Odyessean journey complete with camera crew and the general public as background characters, decorating the film with their own subtle jokes in the form of natural human behavior. I mean, how else would you react to two guys toting around a wheelbarrow full of cable wire attached to the CN Tower?

With the mix of real people and actors working together it was hard to differentiate what was real or not. Even the effects of CGI and the splicing of their young and current selves next to each other I was amazed at how realistic it looked. They must have had this planned for like 20 years, or did a really good job at looking like they did.

It was so refreshing to watch because you could tell everyone who worked on this film had a really good time. 

My boyfriend coincidentally has a work trip to Toronto next week, and yes, I'm seething with jealousy. Praying a trip to the Rivali is on his sightseeing list.