Y2K (2024) Movie Review

Y2K – Movie Review

First Reaction – Y2K struggles to give us enough horror, comedy or overall feeling of being in the year 2000.

Director: Kyle Mooney

Writer: Kyle Mooney, Evan Winter (Screenplay)

Cast

• Jaeden Martell (Knives Out)
• Rachel Zegler (West Side Story)
• Julian Dennison (Hunt for the Wilderpeople)
• Daniel Zolghadri (Funny Pages)
• Lachlan Watson (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)

Plot: Two high-school nobodies make the decision to crash a Y2K party. The night becomes even crazier than they could have ever dreamed when the clock strikes midnight.

Runtime: 1 Hour 31 Minutes 

There may be spoilers in the rest of the review

Story: Y2K starts when outsider teenagers, Eli (Martell) and Danny (Dennison) want to celebrate New Year’s in 2000. They crash a high school party of Eli’s crush, Laura (Zegler) and the party creates chaos.

When the clock strikes midnight, the party goers get attacked by technology gone wrong. They must work together to escape the night and stop the apocalypse. However, the problem comes from seeing how everyone else reacts to the events.

Verdict on Y2K 

Recap

The movie follows a group of teenagers who discover the world coming to an end when the Y2K apocalypse begins. They must work together to overcome the problems and defeat the rising technology.

Best Parts

The highlight is the music, which takes us back to 2000 and the great music we used to get.

Worst Parts

This feels more like an attempt to capture the magic of ‘This is the End’ again. However, it doesn’t click very well and focuses too much on the teenage drama. There aren’t many laughs, and the bigger moments of horror are way too over the top for what the movie is trying to send us.

Final Thoughts –Y2K feels more like a weaker ‘This is the End’.