The Reel Review
A 1999 New Year’s Eve party turns to chaos when a Y2K glitch at the stroke of midnight causes every electronic with a microprocessor to become a violent killing machine. Rachel Zegler and Jaeden Martell star in this horror/comedy from former Saturday Night Live cast member Kyle Mooney.
Intended to be a riff off what could have happened had the much-talked-about and feared Y2K computer glitch actually wreaked havoc on the planet, Y2K is a horrible, unfunny film with a lot of unlikable characters. The nonsensical story is beyond stupid and the dialogue is cringey. How Zegler, Martell, Alicia Silverstone and Fred Durst were convinced to participate is mystifying.
The meager film is clearly a vanity project for Mooney, who in addition to writing the screenplay loaded with 1990’s cultural references with music video director Evan Winter, also appears in the movie as an older stoner buddy of the high schoolers, prompting the question: was he high when he wrote this crap?
REEL FACTS
• Rachel Zegler replaced Jenna Ortega when Ortega dropped out of Y2K due to a scheduling conflict.
• Kyle Mooney was on Saturday Night Live from 2013 to 2022.
• Y2K was filmed in Ringwood, New Jersey.
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