Nimrods review – Green Day’s early years inspire teenage kicks in amiable punk road movie

San Francisco’s pop-punk pioneers Green Day loom large in this fun, puppyish film about a scrappy band desperate to meet their idols Inspired by their own youthful rowdy escapades – “our early days of driving around in a van, tired, hungry, out of gas, out of money, struggling, creating trouble” – here is an amiable road-movie comedy about, soundtracked by and briefly featuring Californian pop-punk stalwarts Green Day. Like them, it is more pop than punk: a fundamentally sweet and puppyish te...

By Laurence Phelan