Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie is the closest thing to Back to the Future 4

Attempting to explain Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie to a neutral party, the reviewer writes, is like quantum physics: baffling at first but profoundly exciting once you surrender to it. The 2026 film, based on the Canadian mockumentary web series created by Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol, asks little of newcomers beyond an open mind and rewards them with a strange, rollicking cinematic experience.

The plot follows fictionalized versions of Johnson and McCarrol as they hatch a daring plan to book a gig at Toronto’s Rivoli. When things go awry, Matt miraculously builds a time machine that sends them back to 2008 and rewrites their lives. The movie is a knowing homage to Back to the Future, copying iconography such as 88 miles per hour and even an Alan Silvestri music cue that somehow avoided copyright trouble.

In place of plutonium the machine runs on a discontinued Canadian soft drink, Orbitz, and period clues like canceled celebrities in advertisements — Bill Cosby and Jared Fogle — confirm the jump.

Canada, Toronto

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