Written and Directed by BenDavid Grabinski | 107 min | ▲▲1/2 |  Disney Plus

Back in the late ’90s one of the most popular movie genres week-in week-out was the post Pulp Fiction gangster comedy — usually punctuated with popular tunes, wordy thugs, pop culture references, and a non-linear storyline. This Winnipeg-shot picture feels like a spoof of one of those — with a time-travel twist working as a different kind of non-linearity. None of this is a criticism, necessarily, though the reason it’s a spoof and not an homage is largely because of the songs. Not a lot of cool hidden gems, instead they’re a parade of guilty pleasures.  A Billy Joel deep cut, Sheena Easton’s “Morning Train,” Steve Winwood’s “Valerie,” and Dave Matthews’ “Ants Marching”.

This is a full on comedy, one that’s clever enough to play with the tropes while also indulging them. It starts sluggishly, but once we get present day gangster Nick (Vince Vaughn) and time-travelling Nick (Vince Vaughn) in one room together, trying to clear the name of his buddy, Mike (James Marsden) who’s been framed as a rat in the organization, things really pick up. Complicating matters, Mike has been sleeping with Nick’s wife, Alice (Eiza González), and Nick has a secret love shack and a cat named Kingpin.

The humour is pop-cultural and self-referential, check, offering more gags about The Gilmore Girls than maybe were entirely required, bouncing around a solid supporting cast, including Keith David, Arturo Castro, Stephen Root, Ben Schwartz, Dolph Lundgren, and Canadian Emily Hampshire reminding us where it’s shot. A John Wick-style finale updates some of these 1990s elements to 2014. You’ll forget it moments after a final Primer reference and rolling credits, and that’s OK — it’s a decent, occasionally funny timewaster.