Y2K

Just watch Shaun Of The Dead instead

Look, I don’t want to harp on this movie and how it didn’t work for me. I like Kyle Mooney, I love Julian Dennison, I love to laugh and I love the return of late 90’s/early 00’s aesthetics, and despite all of this, I didn’t enjoy the film Y2K.

Kyle, if you’re reading this do you remember when we met when I was working at The Jekyll and Hyde Club and you were there with Emma Stone? Y’all were super nice and put up with me doing a character at you for a bit.

More importantly, Kyle, I like you and I think you’re really funny in this movie, I also hope you get to make a bunch more movies because we need low-budget comedies. This one just didn’t work for me and that’s okay. A lot of it did work for me! The bit about the lead guy drinking piss? It really got me! The surprise cameo? Really good!

The pacing was off and some of the other bits fell flat.

The film centers around two young men who are nerds, one of whom is in love with a popular, yet bookish, young gal. They go to a party on New Year's Eve 1999 and Y2K happens.

If you don’t know what Y2K is, Jeez I’m old, it’s a computer bug to do with the calendars turning to the new millennium, there was concern that all the computers would crash and so would society. It didn’t happen because we had a bunch of people working on it and it’s often seen as much ado about nothing, but a lot of people worked very hard to prevent it INCLUDING MY DAD so you’re welcome or whatever. Really, given the current state of affairs and Texas, I’m sorry.

Then it turns out that Y2k is actually the singularity happening. Okay, so if you don’t know what the singularity is, Jeez I need to get out more, it’s when AI develops consciousness and can think for itself and has what we would call a mind or a soul.

In terms of this film, it means all consumer electronics go crazy and start killing people to turn them into batteries or something. LISTEN IT'S A WEIRD MOVIE THAT I HALF REMEMBER BECAUSE I’VE BEEN PUTTING OFF WRITING THIS REVIEW BECAUSE I DIDN’T LIKE AND I FEEL BAD FOR PUTTING MY GUY KYLE ON BLAST LIKE THIS. IT DOESN’T MEAN I DON’T LIKE YOU KYLE IT MEANS THAT THIS FILM TRULY IS AN EYESORE. THE PICTURE IS TOO DARK AND THE FILM IS UGLY, I GET WHAT YOU WERE GOING FOR BUT I JUST DIDN’T LIKE IT OK? AND THAT’S FINE.

I want to emphasize that the yelling I just did was out of insecurity, not anger.

It’s only 90 minutes so if you’re keen you should still check it out.