20 Recent Movies WAY Better Than They Had Any Right To Be
1. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
Fans of Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol's sitcom series Nirvana the Band the Show surely knew what to expect with the feature film follow-up Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, but even so, who saw it scoring near-universal critical raves and ending up better-reviewed than most recent Best Picture Oscar nominees?
The movie's bonkers setup sees Matt and Jay sent back in time to 2008, kickstarting one of the most riotously, endlessly creative time travel films ever made.
The duo clearly have a ton of fun playing with the tropes of the time travel movie, but on its own terms this is a relentlessly charming film that wears its maddening DIY filmmaking on its sleeve - produced for just $2 million with many scenes shot guerrilla-style in public without permits.
Fans of Johnson and McCarrol's work surely expected this film to be good, even great, but did anyone peg it as genuinely one of the most flabbergastingly entertaining comedies of the decade?