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It's hard to tell exactly where this movie goes wrong. Maybe it's that the beginning doesn't get you firmly enough on the leads side. Could have used better humor to do that, or maybe some more relatable and less cliched characterization.

Whatever it is, when this movie started leaning into its emotional moments, and you can tell it's trying because of the music and style, it ended up alienating me because I didn't feel what it was trying to make me feel. And that continued right up thru the end of the movie.

I'd say about half the humor landed for me, but that's not always the filmmakers fault.

Most of the characters felt very stereotypical, and felt like they were trying to be brought to life for us, by just a couple extra zany details, instead anything that felt authentic.

What it felt like, Kyle Mooney and Evan Winter forgive me if this wrong, is that money got behind this movie too early, or too quickly, and the script didn't make it past a first draft. Maybe, too, all the comedy was written in, and not improvised in the way that great comedy movies rely on for the real snappy humor that pops. And, I think in Editting they were giving the humor too much of a pause; too much space for what should have been audience laughter, in a way that also alienated me and probably others. And most of the humor was pretty toothless as well, especially when you compare it to the movies it's drawing influence from.

So unfortunately this movie just feels mediocre; lazily trying to be heartfelt; I wish I had felt toward it what the filmmakers clearly thought I'd feel.

This starts strong with its Y2K apocalypse party montage, but once that initial chaos settles, it's like watching a video freeze halfway through loading. By the end, i wondered, "am I supposed to be laughing, scared, or deeply invested in these cardboard cutouts?" I'm still not sure what tone they were going for...

The direction feels like they filmed half the scenes on a Tuesday and the other half months later, then tried to glue it all together with bad ADR. The high school drama is so shallow it makes Degrassi look like Breaking Bad. And the horror? Yeah.... It's a no for me. CGI blood everywhere, practical effects nowhere, and the little makeup they did bother with was giving Spirit Halloween clearance rack.

The comedy doesn't help much either. Most jokes are either so niche I felt like I needed a late-90s pop culture PhD or just plain bad. I laughed a few times, but not usually with the movie-definitely at it. And every time it tried to get serious it flopped. It's like the movie said, "Let's give them whiplash" and went full Don't Look Up tonal chaos, minus the preachy metaphors.

To be fair, there are worse sc-fi horror movies out this year (AfrAId, anyone? Just me?), and worse comedies, too. But Y2K is just there. It's not a full meltdown like reviews may have you believe-it's more like a frozen screen and the mouse is stuck spinning. Fun to think about, frustrating to sit through.

This is one I was looking forward to for a while and I had reasonable expectations for it. However what it ultimately became was kind of forgettable.

Pros.

The humor can really be on point here and there and there is a really good chemistry between the two leads. The best friend dynamic was really on point, with some Super Bad vibes. The aesthetic was also on point, as someone who was in high school during this period, they nailed it. There was some good side characters that really helped pull the weight of the film. Also some death scenes were funny.

Cons.

The story seemed so good at the beginning, it really set up the characters and world nicely but if you were expecting the fun times that the trailer teased, you will be disappointed. After the initial shock of Y2K begins, it really comes undone. There is a main character that dies and it just didn't feel warranted, at least not yet. Then another death of a main side character happens almost immediately afterwards for comic effect and its really funny but doesn't work overall because of the previous death needed more time to sink in, or not happen at all. So two of the funniest characters are dead in like 30 mins... Not a good sign of things to come.

Then the characters just roam around with some side characters that were not the focus before but move into the spot light and it distracts from the main characters plight. Speaking of, he is just so bland and uninteresting that I couldn't care about him or his Crush(Laura) who also was bland, and they try so hard to make us like her but I couldn't.

Combine this with a wasted cameo towards the end and a blah ending and this movie absolutely falls apart and wishing it made good with what the movie the trailer promised. Also the acting is very hit or miss.

Overall, it's pretty forgettable but maybe it can be revisited for nostalgia, much like the movie. So meta.

5/10.

Y2K tries to take the formula of popular teen comedies like 'Superbad' and wrap it around tech horror but it ultimately fails to give us anything but a mess. It relies hard on your knowledge and memories of Y2K, 1999/2000 trends in music, and low-budget horror films to carry the humor but its story falls apart halfway through. The 3rd act is a mess only saved by one of the most ridiculous cameos with jokes at their own expense.

In the end, Y2K can be funny with some laugh-out-loud moments, but most of those moments are at how ridiculous what just happened was. If you were a teen to 20 something in 1999/2000 you can find something to enjoy with the film but ultimately doesn't give enough to warrant another visit.

Brad: 5 Josh: 4.5-5 Final: 5.

Imagine an SNL Sketch blended with apocalypse vibes, nostalgia, technology, and 90s insanity blended together, mixed up with a bunch of acids that makes things chaotic and all over the place. That's what Y2K is, but the opposite of good.

Kyle Mooney puts all his efforts with the direction, writing and atmosphere approach on the setting and narrative and he does offer some fun vibes of a disaster comedy. Including good production designs and a good setting. The performances from Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, and Rachel Zegler are pretty solid but nothing really stood out.

Unfortunately, the movie does feel like a satire that doesn't take itself seriously, but the issue was it's repetitive atmosphere, direction, and characters that are poorly handled drags the movie down a lot. Almost having most of the charm of the 90s and non-serious fun to feel blown away into nothing.

It feels like Mooney is creating a new Superbad and a satire of the trashy 90s comedy, but kind of misses the point of what made them good and makes it repetitive.

It's not great. I like Brigsby Bear, I'm happy to see Mooney still being able to make works of dumb fun but this wasn't it.

Trailer looked awesome, but trailer makers know what they are doing! They sold it!

The filmmakers, failed. On every level.

This is such a bad film, I had to review. I've only come on here 4 or 5 times to review a film over 20+ years and review when a film is so bad, it deserves no recognition or success. It's just horrific.

No redeeming features at all. Terrible acting, terrible set pieces, poor direction and writing, and a woful silly story that could have been ace, had it been executed correctly. Kills were quick and also pointless, deaths not scary or gory, and so so painfully unfunny.

Also, Fred Durst. It's a no from me. Unsure who this is aimed at, but it's not anyone from 1970-2010.

Trash.

This could have been good. The concept is there, you have a cast that was willing to put themselves in goofy situations and obviously the budget to create something memorable. What went wrong? The limp direction and the forced screenplay.

Firstly, the acting is awful. Not because of the cast, but because the screenplay is written with so many hamfisted jokes thrown in that it gave the actors little room breathe, not to mention these are not traditionally comic actors. Felt bad for the leads, because I know they are capable of much more than this.

Secondly, the script needs more work. Nobody talked like this in the 90s. You got the references and the slang, but none of the delivery. Not a single bit of dialog felt natural to the scene. The comedy only works maybe a quarter of the time because the jokes are so sudden and forced.

Thirdly, where is the shock value? For a movie like this to work, there needed to be more shock. A bit more graphic violence, maybe a bit more nudity. Something to make me say "Whoa!". It felt tame for the subject matter and general feel of the film. Should've taken the murderous robot scheme further.

Overall, it was trash. Unbelievable, not funny and childish. I would only recommend watching it if it's free on streaming and you have absolutely nothing else to watch on a rainy afternoon.

1 brain implant out of 5.

The defining feature of Y2K is it's rather startling accuracy. They included all of the details, even some you might have forgotten. I think this has a low score because it's TOO realistic. This is a lot like being young in the 90s and early 2000s with a dorky intensity that may not appeal to the Zoomers or Alphas who are a similar age in 2025 and want some ultra-sick year 2000 aesthetics that only existed in media. I can just see their bored and confused looks of disapproval from a distance.

It's a fun watch. This is a comedy way more than a horror movie and it won't be a meaningful experience for anyone over 50 or under 35.

This movie isn't for everyone but is full of surprises and funny moments . If you were a teen in the late 90s and early 2000s then you'll love some of the scenes . The soundtrack and music is amazing . And so many throwback moments and mementos from that time frame . It brought back so many good memories for me and I really enjoyed it bc it was a trip down memory lane for me as I was 13 years old when y2k happened . Wish I could go back to those times . Good times and good memories in late 90s and early 2000s. So much NASTALGIA from that time period . Especially referring to technology and music but lots of other mementos too.

In general, this is a cool concept. However, the story had horrible pacing towards the middle to the end. The pay off at the end isn't really worth it to be honest. I've seen worse, but I've seen way better. It's biggest mistake. Was the direction of the writing. It seems to have an identity crisis. Is it a coming of age drama? Is it a romance? Is it a sci-fi movie? Is it a horror film? He tries to do all of the above and it doesn't do well with that.

In general, the characters were decent. The protagonist was your stereotypical dorky kid who's trying to fit in. But to be honest none of the characters were super memorable. The comedy was OK but seemed a little forced at times.

The story itself was paste very poorly. It starts out strong with a decent intro to the characters as well as some cool stuff in the second act, but by the middle of the second acts flat lines. It tries to and back up towards the end of the third act for that crazy climax, but it just falls flat again.

In general, the production value was good. The robots looked cool and there's a lot of nostalgia in the background that you could see. You would like it, especially if you grew up in the 1990s-2000s.

Overall, it was just OK. I was hoping for more from a24.

This is a FLOP, there ain't 2 ways about it.

You can see Kyle Mooney's type of "comedy" hard-core fans talking about how the movie "is BAD ON PURPOSE" - but if you're reaching so hard for a reason to justify a film being this bad in the first place, then this thing is definitively not worth your time.

The "comedy" in this thing is awkward and sparse (just like Kyle Mooney - big surprise) and no one can justify sitting for the whole movie just for 1 or 2 chuckles (some of it you had already seen in the trailer).

Yes, being awkward can be funny sometimes, but not for 2 straight hours. Tiresome is the least we can say about Y2K (while still being polite).

Born in 86, so was looking forward to a nostalgic fun trip. Saw the trailer a couple of months ago and have been counting down the days until i could watch this. Wow, was this bad, and not even in a fun low budget way, this was just bad. All the 90s nostalga felt super forced, more like "hey this was popular back then, remember" instead of feeling natural to this era, setting, and situation. Find and read the worst review for this movie then times it by ten, its that bad. Acting is cringe, cgi is terrible, props/special effects were terrible, if you told me the budget for this movie was under 1 million dollars, id believe you.

"Y2K" has to be one of the strangest films A24 has released. A nostalgia-filled comedy following a group of teenagers navigating a 1999 where the bug was real and created a post-apocalyptic world doesn't exactly scream "made by A24." That very real paranoia train missed me, so I can't relate. I went in open-minded, hoping for something crazy. After seeing it, it's utterly ridiculous, but it oddly works!

To start the positives, all the actors delivered solid performances, especially Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, and Rachel Zegler as Eli, Danny, and Laura, respectively. They all have charisma and pleasant comedic timing, and I wound up caring to see if Eli would get together with Laura.

I also feel that Kyle Mooney did great work for his directorial debut. I've seen a few of his films, but I completely forgot that he was the writer and star in "Brigsby Bear." I have a tremendous amount of respect for that film and believe it single-handedly got me into art-house movies. Mooney understands how to make comedy bits land while sprinkling dramatic and horror moments here.

Speaking of comedy, it's not the best in the genre, but many jokes had me laughing. One has to do a Sisqó song and not to discredit the rest of the experience, but that was the best part of the entire film. Unfortunately, the rest of the comedy is hit-or-miss, but it's hilarious when the electronics come to life and begin their murderous rampage!

Finally, the film runs at 1 hour and 30 minutes. Though there are negatives that I'll get to in a second, the runtime is not one of them. It's never tedious, and I was always curious about what insane things the film would do next.

I'm surprised with how much good is in the film, but sadly, a few things were holding it back from being a classic. However, it does have a high chance of being a cult classic.

The first semi-negative, perhaps the most obvious problem, is that the movie feels like it came out in 1999. Sometimes, it works, but numerous references went over my head, left me confused, or felt dated. Those who lived through Y2K will likely understand them more than a general moviegoer today. In addition, while I wanted Eli and Laura to get together, the narrative has cliches. I won't go into detail to avoid spoilers, but it did feel like the film wanted to emulate one that came out in 1999. I've seen a handful of movies released from that year, and "Y2K" is easily comparable to those films, for better or worse.

Remember when I said the comedy was inconsistent? Indeed, many jokes didn't land, I couldn't understand or were hilariously bad. For that last part, and I'll be vague, a character knows that the world is falling apart but decides to do something idiotic. The decision's harmless with the right expertise, but a miscalculation leads to the character's death. This character didn't need technology to go, only stupidity. I was baffled and couldn't help but burst out laughing. It was an avoidable death. The deaths leading up to this moment were all technology's fault! You'll know which scene I'm talking about when you see the movie!

Overall, "Y2K" is one of the year's most ridiculous yet charming films. It won't be for everyone, as it never takes itself seriously. You'll likely have a good time if you go in with those expectations!

Technically, the performances, Kyle Mooney's directing, and the impressive practical effects make the technical score an 8/10.

For the enjoyment score, I found it fun, but you need to go in with the right expectations. Expect a highly unrealistic, bordering on screwball, yet always entertaining time that never cares about logic. On those fronts, the enjoyment score is a 7/10. It's an amusing ride under the right circumstances, and I'm excited to see what Mooney does next!

I was 26 when the year 2000 rolled around. Being back there as nostalgic for me. The story was crazy in a way but not anymore than any other hacker/computer story ever. I don't know if people are expecting Avenger quality movies all the time but this movie was enjoyable and fun. I did not expect it too be a classic so I just had fun with it.

Three was not much time to build long and complicated back stories for each character so it was difficult too get to attached to them but I surely cared about the 3 main characters, Eli, Laura and Danny

I can't help but think that this movie was a victim of the Snow White (Rachel Zegler) backlash.

Unfortunately, this will be another title you'll have to scroll through on your streaming service and never actually watch. The humor is directly aimed at people who don't find anything or anyone but themselves to be funny. The story is slow and hardly picks up any pace and then it just ends. Of course, it does t help that, "Weird weird" is the lead. For some reason studios still think this is a good idea but she's proven to be subpar and falls flat again. Reading the dictionary is more entertaining than any 5 minutes of Y2K, and certainly more productive. Do yourself a favor and turn on the news, as that'll be far more entertaining.

This movie is one of the most absurd things I have ever seen, it is ignorant, funny, at times sad and yet when the movie ended I said: "already?!". As a plot it is really very simple without any absurd plot twists and flows regularly without plot holes (even if I would have preferred to see some characters characterized more). The special effects are not bad and the music is 90% taken from existing songs from the 90s. One thing that I honestly did not expect but that surprised me is the presence of scenes that border on the Splatter style, when I saw certain scenes I was speechless because the movie really begins with a style and a rhythm completely different from how it ends. A good movie with strengths and weaknesses that will keep you at the screen for the whole time.

GenX reporting in. This was a train wreck. You have been warned in advance. I walked out after 45 minutes. Not quite a comedy and really bad horror, this nonsensicle mess is also very poorly cast, written and acted. When the horror starts it makes literally No sense whatsoever. I know what you are thinking, "How bad could it really be?" Omg, this was So bad guys!!! First scene, The AOL America Online boots up right away, no annoying delays, lol. Was supposed to be 2000 but whoever wrote this doesnt have a very good memory. When the horror starts machines mysteriously combine with other machines to form speak and spell killers. The action looks fake. 100% rediculous, and not in a good way!!!

I thought Megalopolis was the worst move of 2024. I was wrong. Megalopolis was a superb movie compared to this piece of drek. This is a movie that sensible people won't waste their money on. This movie fails of all counts. The plot (what plot?) was bad. The acting (what acting?) was bad. Do you remember where you were when Y2K rolled around? I remember quite vividly. The real Y2K had little of no impact in the USA. In some countries (notably Japan) it had a small impact. The real Y2K was anticipated for many years. Lots of software was updated to allow four digits for the year, not just two. As a sad note, I see two digit years showing up of late.

Writing Matters when telling a story, and who ever greenlite this script should be ashamed of themselves. Perhaps it is good the Jenna Ortega had a scheduling conflict. There were so many flaws with just how the movie lays itself out, I've seen BAD movies before but that was totally on purpose. I expect more from A24 and it's films, this is certainly a low point. It was so unbelievably ridiculous. Kyle Mooney, come on man? You were born in the 80s, you lived through this period, this a complete and utter waste of your talent. At this point I am just going to rant how about talentless Rachel Zegler is. But I won't we already know she is a talentless hack. Why do people give this wannabe jobs? She has the range of fruit fly. Honestly I want my money back. I should have gone to see Sonic 3 instead of wasting money on this.