Y2K
critic Reviews
, 43% Rotten Tomatometer Score- Y2K earns points for ambition and sheer audacity, even if it struggles to keep the laughs coming while maintaining a messy tonal blend.
- , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreChristy LemireFilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
It's funny here and there... But it runs out of steam, feeling like a sketch that was stretched out into a feature length film.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreAdam GrahamDetroit News
... A series of references to Surge soda, Tae Bo, dial-up sounds and Nintendo 64 does not a movie make.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreSara Michelle FettersMovieFreak.com
This scattershot, blood-drenched comedy of cybernetic terrors frequently loses connection. Like the promising early days of the internet, its only lasting legacy will likely be one smothered in disappointment and missed opportunity.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreCalum MarshNew York Times
... The carnage of consumer goods is nasty, gory and cruel, with a darkly comic mean streak that recalls Joe Dante’s “Gremlins.”
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreNick SchagerThe Daily Beast
Y2K, the much-hyped fear that global machines would go kaput at the turn of the millennium, was a potential cataclysm that proved to be a joke. "Y2K," on the other hand, is an attempt at comedy that’s a genuine disaster.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreKatie WalshTribune News Service
Zoomers just won’t pick up everything he’s putting down, and that may work against this otherwise exuberant and somewhat messy teen horror-comedy.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreQ.V. HoughVague Visages
“I imagine that Mooney most likely pitched ‘Y2K’ as a mash-up of ‘Superbad’ and current trends, and that’s exactly how it goes down — a bunch of derivative gags in a feature film format for nostalgic pop culture consumers."
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreIan BuntingDaily Record (UK)
Y2K is a missed opportunity that doesn’t offer super scares or hearty humour; just switch off to this one.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreSean P. MeansThe Movie Cricket
[Mooney] makes “Y2K” a movie that’s hilariously gory, smartly comic and surprisingly sweet, the very sort of movie that would play perfectly at a teen sleepover circa 1999.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreRob ThomasNot That Rob Thomas (Substack)
“Y2K” feels put together from discarded pieces of other movies, fusing together pieces of slasher horror, sci-fi disaster, stoner teen comedy and snarky social commentary.
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