Ty Watches "Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie"

While my wife and daughter are out of town I have been watching a bunch of movies, and you all will be getting some reviews of certain ones over the next couple of days. My son has been hanging out with his friends, so that gives me a few hours each night at home to watch whatever I want. It's glorious. To fill that time I'm catching up on movies I missed in the theaters that I wanted to see. The first one I watched, and my son watched the last 40 minutes with me, was "Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie".

Now, I have never seen the stuff these two guys, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarroll, did prior to this. I had never heard of them in fact. But I heard really good things about this movie, and when RD told me he watched it on a plane recently, and also told me that I didn't really have to see what they did before, and that he liked it, that was enough for me to rent it on Amazon and watch.

I absolutely loved this movie. I get all the good reviews now. This is one of the funniest movies I have seen in quite some time. I believe me laughing is what convinced my son to saunter out of his room and see what was so funny.

The plot of the movie is pretty simple. McCarroll and Johnson start out as young kids with a dream, they grow up not fulfilling that dream, they kind of do their own thing and Johnson inadvertently creates a time machine after rewatching "Back to the Future". The time machine aspect is the driving force in the second act of the movie. This is where we really dig into the plot. But the first act made me laugh the hardest. Seeing Johnson and McCarroll do their comedy bits was hilarious for me. They do bits that incorporate real people on the street. And it works. But they also had to do a ton of camera tricks in this movie as well. There's no way they actually went to the top of the CN Tower and jumped off it trying to get into the dome where the Blue Jays play their home games. That would be suicidal if they did that. But the way they filmed it and put it on screen, it sure looked real. The shots from the top of the CN Tower made my knees buckle when I was watching it. And seeing them jump off, and land on the dome as it fully closed, that terrified me. And I have to assume that none of that was real. But they pulled it off.

The whole idea of the jump was to spark up interest in the show they were trying to perform at a local Toronto venue called The Rivoli. The Rivoli gets mentioned a ton from start to finish. But they wanted to draw up interest by doing the jump from this establishment so they could perform live there. When the jump doesn't work, they have to walk home and they get stuck in a bad storm. Unaffected by this, Johnson starts to come up with a new plan, the time machine plan, as soon as they walk in the door. McCarroll is turned off by this and he decides he is going to do an open mic by himself in Ottawa. He wakes up early the next day to take the winnebago they have and do this show. He doesn't know that Johnson fell asleep in the van the night before. And when McCarroll hits 88 mph they miraculously jump back in time. They head back to that date when they're young and full of hope and potential.

This is where the movie really takes off. This is when it went from good to great for me. A bunch of stuff happens. They're so inept at time travel that they seem to make mistake after mistake. They never seem to get it right. Even when one of them gets a chance at real fame, they find a way to screw it up. And it is so funny all along the way. I love how they were able to add shots from 18 years ago that looked so real still to this day. McCarroll has this quietness to him that I related to as a viewer. He is upset with Johnson's antics, but he sticks by his side, until he doesn't. Johnson is a star in my eyes. He is so funny and charismatic and so fun to watch on screen. He was my main reason for wanting to watch this and his performance did not disappoint. He was so good that I watched another movie this week, which I will be writing about later on during the week, simply because he directed and co-starred in it.

"Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie" is an absolute home run for me. I thought it was hilarious and I thought that Jay McCarroll and Matt Johnson made something truly unique and hilarious. I cannot recommend this movie enough. Go check it out immediately and be ready to get a very good chuckle while watching this movie. It is a total blast. 

Ty

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