Jonathan Clotz| Published
I remember exactly where I was on December 31st, 1999. I was playing with five other friends at my friend’s house Mario Kart 64 and South Park: Chef’s Luv ShackAnd we weren’t too worried about the end of the world, but at the same time, we all sighed in Relief when nothing happened at 12:01am on January 1, 2000. For several months, the media was promoting Y2K. This is a critical computer error that can wipe out all the technology that exists. Sophomoric horror comedy Y2K Instead, if technology tried to kill people, while it was bombed in theaters, I imagine what would have happened if it became one of Max’s hottest movies now.
Killer House Party
Y2K It’s a totally targeted nostalgic film for everyone ages 37 to 48, with non-stop references to the turn of the century, including Killer Tamogochi, time-of-day soundtracks, and great cameos that shouldn’t get out and ruin for yourself. In fact, the film is at its best just after midnight strokes, with three Uncool Friends, Danny (Julian Dennison), Eli (Jaedan Martell), and Garrett (film writer/director Kyle Mooney) taking part in a high school house party. Suddenly, technology is trying to kill children, from VCRs that hit girls on the heads to snakes. Finally, a strange collection of technologies called screen layers stab people.
Farcus has joined the boys (Stranger Things” Eduardo Franco) and Eli’s Crash, Laura (Rachel Zegler), are taking shelter in school and trying to save the town from the deadly virus. As the film progresses, it grows physically, and the fusion begins to take control of the townspeople and transforms the invisible threat of the virus into a standard, giant movie monster. Like a real computer glitche, Y2K The early House Party Massacre was one of the best horror movie scenes of the decade, and the rest of the film is there, so it’s much more interesting in abstractly before innovating into a standard horror movie.
It’s not a funny comedy, nor a scary terror
Y2K It almost combines 2000s teen comedy with horror comedy, but two halves of a movie like Pizza’s Pineapple don’t taste it together. It’s not as funny as a straight comedy, nor as dark or original as a pure horror movie, but it has some fantastic comedy beats and some creative deaths, but both combine perfectly to create moments that are shocking and unexpected, and react to everyone. It’s scattered, it’s not good at pace and misses the mark, but in a few years, this becomes a sleeper hit.
When it was in the theatre and in the theatre, this is not a streaming original film, but you are forgiven because no one went to see it. Y2K Despite a rather modest film budget of $15 million, it won $4 million. When it debuted on December 6th, 2024, it was quite a flop and a disappointment. As current success shows, going to the theatre might have been a mistake, but it’s a streaming hit.
Y2K is a future hit
For all of that Y2K Inadequately, the film makes up for it with enthusiasm and the joy of infectiousness that comes only from the director’s first major film. Kyle Mooney is still trying to find his voice and style, but at least he’s got a big swing in this horror comedy mashup and hasn’t played safely in most of the film. A few years later, horny dialogue and 2000s nostalgia will be a hit for a generation that can’t remember the world without a phone and has never experienced Woodstock 1999
Y2K Currently streaming on Max.
