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\"\"Y2K<\/strong> (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A24\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 93 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (bloody violence, strong sexual content\/nudity, pervasive language, teen drug and alcohol use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Kyle Mooney\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Kyle Mooney and Evan Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Bill Pope\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: December 6, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, The Kid Laroi, Lachlan Watson, Daniel Zolghadri, Mason Gooding, Eduardo Franco, Lauren Balone, Fred Durst, Kyle Mooney, Miles Robbins, Alicia Silverstone, Tim Heidecker, Kevin Mangold.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0It\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s been 25 years since Y2K fever had everybody in a panic. So many people were convinced that the world was going to end when the clock struck midnight on December 31, 1999. They thought the switch to a new millennium would cause all computers to crash. I never thought I\u2019d see the day when somebody would look back on this nostalgically.<\/p>\n

\u00a0For his directorial debut, former SNL cast member Kyle Mooney gives us Y2K<\/strong>, a teen comedy set amidst a disaster movie scenario involving a cyber-uprising. This one has cult film written all over it. I don\u2019t see it having a lot of mass appeal. You\u2019ve heard of marching to a different drummer? This one has its own orchestra.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The story centers on two high school dorks, best buds Eli (Martell, It) and Danny (Dennison, Deadpool 2). Eli, the more straight-laced of the pair, has a crush on popular girl Laura (Zegler, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes). Not only is she incredibly hot, she also has mad computer skills. The guys decide to crash a New Year\u2019s Eve party so Eli can hook up with Laura who\u2019s just broken up with her boyfriend. He wants nothing more than to kiss her at midnight. Danny just wants to party like it\u2019s 1999. Come on, you know I had to throw that in there somehow.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Midnight comes and that\u2019s when all hell breaks loose. Basically, the computers take over. All electronic devices come to life and meld together into robots that kill every human in sight. Many a guest meets his or her bloody demise at the hands of the mechanical monsters. A few survivors make their way to the woods where they try to stay alive while they try to figure out a way to defeat the machines before they enslave them all.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The small band of survivors includes non-binary skater girl Ash (Watson, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Slim Shady wannabe CJ (Zolghadri, Eighth Grade) and Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst (as himself). Aussie rapper The Kid Laroi plays a jock d-bag everybody calls \u201cSoccer Chris\u201d. Mooney appears as Garrett, a dreadlock-wearing video store clerk\/stoner with a thing for devil sticks. Plus, in a surreal twist, former teen vixen Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) shows up in a few scenes as Eli\u2019s cool mom.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Mooney is a singular talent. A longtime member of the sketch comedy group Good Neighbor (alongside fellow SNL alum Beck Bennett), he also co-wrote the 2017 oddball comedy Brigsby Bear. I stand by the rave review I gave it back then. He made clear his affection for silly 80s children\u2019s TV shows. In Y2K<\/strong>, he shows his love for late 90s pop culture with references to Tamagotchis, dial-up Internet and Billy Blanks Tae Bo videos. This is all in addition to vintage soundtrack cuts like \u201cTubthumping\u201d (Chumbawamba), \u201cThong Song\u201d (Sisqo), \u201cBack at One\u201d (Brian McKnight) and \u201cClosing Time\u201d (Semisonic). I was well out of my teen years in 1999 (I was in my early 30s), so I can\u2019t say Y2K<\/strong> brings back any fond memories of carefree times. However, I remember the time well enough to know Mooney gets it exactly right. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anybody over 30 who doesn\u2019t remember the AOL login and modem sound. I sure do and I didn\u2019t even own a computer back then. Y2K<\/strong> didn\u2019t make me feel nostalgic for \u201999, but it did make me chuckle out of recognition a few times.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The cast appears to be having a good time, especially Dennison whose performance is the equivalent of dancing like no one\u2019s watching. As a matter of fact, he does dance a couple of times and it\u2019s fun to watch. He\u2019s the perfect antithesis to Martell\u2019s more reserved character, a mild-mannered sort who convincingly takes the lead when it\u2019s time to save the world from machines. Zegler is a delight as a bad ass hacker girl. Watson does great work as Ash, a tapehead who\u2019s never without a camera. Eduardo Franco (Stranger Things) has some funny scenes as a big mouth bonehead who bullies the two heroes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Mooney\u2019s involvement with Y2K<\/strong> gave me a glimmer of hope as I entered the theater. I had a feeling it might be good despite the studio\u2019s decision to release it between the Thanksgiving releases and the first wave of big Christmas movies. I don\u2019t think it\u2019ll do big business, but it is good. Like I said earlier, it\u2019s a future cult film. Mooney struggles a little bit with tone; the shift from teen party comedy to disaster horror movie is somewhat abrupt yet not awkward.<\/p>\n

\u00a0To its credit, Y2K<\/strong> never feels like a short film stretched out to feature length. It\u2019s creative if not wholly original. It\u2019s an interesting film that won\u2019t appeal to everybody and will likely be out of theaters by Christmas Day. So if you have a taste for the bizarre and unusual, you better hurry before this crazy train pulls out of the station.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Y2K (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A24\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 93 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (bloody violence, strong sexual content\/nudity, pervasive language, teen drug and alcohol use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Kyle Mooney\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Kyle Mooney and Evan Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Bill Pope\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: December 6, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, The Kid Laroi, Lachlan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Y2K-PIC.jpg?fit=627%2C352&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9968,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions\/9968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}