“Micro Budget”

8:15 p.m. April 11

Central United Methodist Church

215 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing

Reminiscent of an episode of “The Office” where Michael Scott is on a particularly unpleasant crusade, “Micro Budget,” screening April 11 at Central United Methodist Church, is a nonstop laugh fest with the meta theme of just how easy it is for anyone to become a filmmaker these days.

With a baby on the way, Terry (Patrick Noth) moves himself and his very pregnant wife, Erica (Emilea Wilson), from Iowa to Los Angeles in the hopes of creating an indie movie and selling it to a streaming service for “a fuck-ton of money.” He decides to document the entire shooting process, telling the crew to “film everything.” Through this faux behind-the-scenes footage, we watch Terry terrorize the cast and crew constantly — apart from the lead actress, whom he has a very obvious crush on — while trying and usually failing to keep everything together under the tight budget and time constraints. (They can’t hide that they’re shooting a movie from their Airbnb host forever!) As Terry stumbles his way through making his disaster flick, everyone else just wonders if they’re going to get paid.

There’s not an actor in this movie who isn’t performing at the top of their game. With a cast of seasoned on-screen comedians, including Chris Parnell, Bobby Moynihan, Kate Flannery and Maria Bamford, the jokes are constant and hilarious, usually fueled by Terry’s ineptitude. The filmmakers’ intention was for “Micro Budget” to hearken back to the big comedy movies of the aughts, such as “Superbad,” “Anchorman” and “The 40 Year Old Virgin” — “the ones with a joke every 15 seconds.” It achieves that and more, capturing the elements of that era we’re nostalgic for while keeping things a bit more politically correct.