New Sci-Fi Comedy Y2K Looks Hilarious, Violent, and Awesome

Famously, nothing large happened successful 1999 erstwhile the timepiece changed from 11:59 p.m. connected December 31 to 12:00 a.m. connected January 1, 2000. But… what if it did? That’s the wide thought down Y2K, a caller sci-fi fearfulness drama from manager Kyle Mooney, starring a who’s who of awesome young actors including Rachel Zegler from West Side Story, Jaeden Martell from It, and Julian Dennison from Deadpool 2.

In the film, 2 teens clang a New Year’s Eve party—and astatine midnight, they witnesser the commencement of a planetary apocalypse. The Y2K bug turns each exertion against everybody and it’s up to the kids to prevention themselves from slayer VHS tapes, Tamagotchis, and each mode of retro tech. Check retired the brand-new trailer.

You could acceptable immoderate trailer to Chumbawamba and you’re halfway to perfection, but the Y2K trailer adds to it with each the action, creatures, and 1990s nostalgia. Like, for example, yes, that’s Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst appearing arsenic himself (talk astir a large get successful 1999). Alicia Silverstone’s quality is besides a beauteous large wink backmost to the era. Tim Heidecker is successful there. And past there’s Mooney himself. Though he’s got an awesome database of producers down him (including Jonah Hill) and plentifulness of originative experience, from moving and penning on Saturday Night Live to the awesome 2017 film Brigsby Bear, Y2K marks his directorial debut.

And portion Mooney rules, Dennison is hilarious, and Martell has a chaotic range, the biggest get successful Y2K has to beryllium Zegler. After breaking retired successful Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, she popped up successful Shazam 2 earlier landing her archetypal large franchise: The Hunger Games: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. That movie was a beast, grossing implicit $300 cardinal worldwide and teeing up a sequel. Next, too Y2K, she’s successful the Netflix animated movie Spellbound and then, the large one, arsenic Snow White successful Disney’s upcoming live-action retelling of the classical fairy tale. There’s plentifulness of contention surrounding that film, but since this comes retired a fewer months before, it hits astatine a cleanable clip to capitalize connected her sanction recognition.

Y2K debuted astatine South by Southwest earlier this twelvemonth wherever it gained mostly affirmative reviews (currently it’s astatine 60% connected Rotten Tomatoes), but A24 was assured capable to get down it and it’s coming retired connected December 6. Though immoderate reviews praised it done and through, others thought the thought got stretched a small bladed and didn’t rather travel together. Basically, it sounds similar 1 of those movies you’ll conscionable person to spot and determine for yourself. The trailer, astatine least, makes it look similar a winner.

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