Y2K

Screened at Regal Cinemas, Rancho Mirage, California

Not much to go too in-depth here regarding the directorial feature debut from Kyle Mooney. I went into this as a fan, having especially enjoyed his time on Saturday Night Live and the Stephen Merchant HBO comedy Hello Ladies from a few years ago. He's got that absurdist sense of humor along the likes of Tim & Eric, Adult Swim, and the like. In fact, Tim Heidecker of Tim & Eric has a small role here along with Miss Alicia Silverstone from Clueless, and the recent Krazy House which I was not a fan of.

This is basically a stoner, hang-out comedy, with dashes of horror and sci-fi, and a massive heaping of nostalgia which will satisfy the 90s kids quite effectively. Overall this wasn't great by any means but it's damn good fun and all their clear goals were met rather convincingly. Casting was solid, soundtrack was great, special effects were good and I really enjoyed the Y2K monster robots they conceived. The film even had me feeling a bit nostalgic for a lot of the tunes throughout, tunes I definitely was not exactly into when they were first all over the radio in the mid-to-late 90s.

My main takeaway, in the spirit of humor I suppose, is it's quite bizarre for me not only to say I liked Fred Durst in this, and that I think my view of him has been shifting of late, but also that a lot of that has to do with realizing I enjoyed not just two films in 2024 featuring Fred Durst, and his performances .... but two films released by arthouse juggernaut A24. Not sure anyone could have predicted anything close to that.

The year of A2024 has proven to be another in this surreal decade of the 20s we find ourselves in.