Great Scott! These guys made a De Lorean out of an RV!

“This is gonna be a copyright nightmare” is one of the lines of “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.” That’s because this movie uses so many “Back to the Future” references-the score, Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode,” the lightning, the wires, and the vehicle that becomes a De Lorean.

It’s funny, because a while ago, I saw the new “Anaconda,” which was about childhood friends remaking their favorite 90s movie of the same name. The problem was with that movie was that it spent too much time dealing with the IPs-the cameos and the copyright infringements, than it did on the pure nostalgia of it all. It may have found an audience, but I wasn’t apart of that.

“Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie” is a low budgeted movie made by and starring Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol, who both collaborated on the brilliant “Blackberry.” And this one is a mockumentary with a lot of laughs, energy, personalities, and risks. After all, it is a low budgeted film ripping off a bigger film.

Under their fictionalized personas, Matt and Jay are two Canadian buddies and musicians, who plan to make their band Nirvanna the Band huge, although lately, Jay is considering becoming a solo artist. They even try to parachute into the Rivoli to get their band on track, but you know bad weather. It can ruin a lot of things.

Then, Matt decides to make a fake Time Machine out of their RV (A DeLorean RV if you will), in order to promote their band. He thinks he ruined the video when he accidentally spills a drink on it, but a road trip accidentally sends the two of them back to 2008. Although I don’t remember “The Hangover” being released that year, even as a sneak preview.

But you know the “Butterfly Effect.” If you go back in time, you could change the future. This movie doesn’t want to follow Bruce Banner’s message: “If you travel to the past, that becomes your future, and your former the present becomes the past, which can’t now be changed by your new future.” So, that means instead of having them play at the Rivoli, Jay can arrange his future as a famous solo artist and Matt with a new set of friends and bandmates. And yet, the movie is never mean-spirited about that. Instead, it gives them some extra good reasons why they must go back in time and fix this timeline.

I’m told this movie was based on a web series that also sparked a sequel TV series. It was “Nirvanna the Band,” and then “Nirvanna the Band the Show,” and now, it’s “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.” So that’s a nice step up. It took me a little while to warm up to these guys and their situations, but I was able to grasp their music dreams, and what time unfolds for them. When they travel to the past and their past selves see their future selves, it’s more in the role reversal scenario, instead of the flimsy and rusty special effects of “Alice Through the Looking Glass.” To clarify, past Jay sees future Matt, while past Matt sees future Jay. And neither of them are concerned about their appearances-hairstyles and faces. Not one wrinkle comment, as far as I know.

Matt and Jay, as filmmakers and actors, both have what it takes to transition themselves from the internet to the TV to the big screen, and their character studies in a way reminds me of Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel’s fictionalized selves in “This is the End.” They both have their humor and struggles, even though this film is more low key.

Now, I can already imagine if there would be a sequel to this movie, and the title would probably be “Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie the Sequel.”