If you’re a neo-Luddite, you’ve been eating pretty well since 2020: Not only is reality giving you plenty of confirmation bias with the rise of generative AI and the continuing innovation within the machine learning sphere, but you’ve at least one great comedy about the machines rising up to kill us all in The Mitchells vs. The Machines. But that was animated — when’s the live-action world going to catch on? Well, Kyle Mooney’s got you covered. The former SNL star and Brigsby Bear writer is making his directorial debut with Y2K, a “disaster comedy” that A24’s gonna drop in December.
It’s about a group of teens who wind up fighting their electronics on January 1, 2000 — a day which did not live in actual infamy in our timeline (though if your first reaction was to wonder where the beef was, a whole lot of people worked very hard to make sure that shit didn’t get fucked up), but is apparently the new Judgment Day, minus the Austrian bodybuilders. Anyhow, Y2K premiered back at SXSW this year, and had some pretty solid reviews so go ahead and gather all your Beanie Babies so that they can watch this trailer that hit the Information Superhighway on Wednesday morning.
Peep it:
Here’s a typically-short A24 synopsis:
“On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Year’s Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.“
Y2K hits theaters on December 9. If you haven’t, now’s a good time to make sure the filtration systems in your disaster bunker still work and that the Faraday Cage hasn’t collapsed. You never know when your WiFi signal might try to fry your brains or your Apple Pencil decides it wants to e-sign PDFs with your blood.