Rent Nirvanna: The Band, the Show, the Movie (2025)
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Based on the epic Canadian TV series, "Nirvanna the Band the Show", lifelong friends Matt (Matt Johnson) and Jay (Jay McCarrol) are back to continue their quest of booking a gig at the legendary venue, the Rivoli. This time, their latest scheme goes horribly wrong and they accidentally travel back in time to the year 2008. What happens next is blah blah blah...
- Actors:
- Matthew Johnson, Jay McCarrol, Ben Petrie, Ethan Eng, Michael Scott, Reid Janisse, Steve Hamelin, Luke Lalonde, Maddy Wilde, Mitch Derosier, Ayush Joy, Isabella Scovariello, Ethan Keyes, Jack Wiktor, Marko Rantala, Raymond Ellis, Yekaterina Moiseeinko, Anastasiia Koval, Roz Weston, Mocha Frap
- Directors:
- Matthew Johnson
- Producers:
- Matt Greyson, Matthew Miller
- Writers:
- Matthew Johnson, Jay McCarrol, Jared Raab, Curt Lobb, Matthew Miller, Matt Greyson, Luca Tarantini, Evan Morgan
- Aka:
- Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Countries:
- Canada
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 21/09/2026
- Run Time:
- 99 minutes
- Languages:
- English
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Various
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Commentary with Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol
- Alternate Opening
- Animatics: Back to 2008 and Running Cable
- Ethan Deleted Scene
- Figured It Out Featurette
- Home Movies
- Nirvanna the Band the Show Episode 101 - The Banner
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 21/09/2026
- Run Time:
- 99 minutes
- Languages:
- English
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Various
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Commentary with Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol
- Alternate Opening
- Animatics: Back to 2008 and Running Cable
- Ethan Deleted Scene
- Figured It Out Featurette
- Home Movies
- Nirvanna the Band the Show Episode 101 - The Banner
- Disc 1:
- Disc 2:
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Reviews (1) of Nirvanna: The Band, the Show, the Movie
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Slog - Nirvanna: The Band, the Show, the Movie review by griggs
Went in cold — never seen the TV show, just knew it had a cult following — and came out feeling like I’d missed some kind of induction ceremony. The bumbling mockumentary bit is meant to charm you. It starts grating about twenty minutes in, and it never really wins me back.
The trouble is the gag doesn’t move. Same beat, over and over, stretched from what feels like a decent half-hour sketch into a feature that overstays its welcome by about an hour. A good third of it feels like padding.
Matt and Jay are supposed to be endearingly hopeless together. Without the fandom behind me, it just reads smug — and thanks to the recorded introduction made specially for British audiences (possibly just for the preview screenings), that was overbearing before the film had even started. To be fair, I get the appeal — it runs on in-jokes and repetition — but if you’re not already on the inside, there’s not much to grab onto.
Some cult favourites you can join late. This one, I think, you had to be there for.