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Endearingly silly Canadian comedy about time-travelling musicians
Year: 2025
Certificate: 15
This endearingly silly comedy has nothing to do with Nirvana the actual band – indeed, it has precious little to do with music at all. Co-writers Matt Johnson (also the director) and Jay McCarrol play Matt and Jay, amiable middle-aged nitwits whose arrested development falls into the tradition of Laurel and Hardy, or Abbott and Costello.
Although we never hear their band perform, they crave a gig at a well-known Toronto venue called the Rivoli, to which end they plot an outrageous publicity stunt, sky-diving off the city’s enormous CN Tower – one of the world’s tallest buildings.
Then, via a series of mad misadventures, they find themselves propelled back through time to 2008 when, alarmingly, they encounter their younger selves. To depict this, Johnson uses footage from their own web series of 18 years ago – which most readers will never have heard of but, by all accounts, it had a cult following.
This feature-length follow-up deserves a wide audience. While it is certainly open to a charge of self-indulgence, it’s also engagingly silly enough to get away with it. (100 minutes)
