Venerating the psychotic abusive boss. Straight actor playing gay. Everyone pretending the thin and pretty starlet is not actually thin and pretty. Adrian Grenier. This movie is such a relic of a different time.

But I’ll be damned if it’s not very entertaining.

Back to the Future heads will eat this up. Very funny, so inventive and full of heart. Thank you, Canada, for giving the world both Matt Johnson and Nathan Fielder.

At last year’s annual Secret Jewish Media Control meeting I mentioned I needed the perfect movie I could take my Gentile mother-in-law to see, and I must say they knocked it out of the park.

Also fuck these CGI sheep for making me cry as I contemplate the beautiful fragility of life.

I watched this just as the filmmakers intended: On my phone on an airplane while eating an egregiously overpriced Guy Fieri-branded BBQ chicken wrap and occasionally dozing off.

Full disclosure: I am a secret magic nerd, and this was dumb, low-stakes fun. In other words, an ideal plane movie — especially for a guy who took magic lessons as a kid in the back of a pizzeria from an odd but harmless dude named Magic Dave. True story.