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Does the New 'Y2K' Comedy/Disaster/Horror Film Give the '90s the Ending It Deserved?


The new movie Y2K is either a comedy or a disaster/horror film, according to Wikipedia. The film "imagines a turn of the century where the machines don't just glitch or stop working," writes the Hollywood Reporter. "They go full homicidal." With a cast that includes 1990s icons like Alicia Silver...

The film "imagines a turn of the century where the machines don't just glitch or stop working," writes the Hollywood Reporter. With a cast that includes 1990s icons like Alicia Silverstone and the lead singer for the Napster- loving 1990s metal band Limp Bizkit, the movie "gives the '90s the ending it deserved," according to the article.They interviewed the film's director (and co-writer and co-star) Kyle Mooney, best-known for SNL, starting by complimenting this fidelity to the tech of its day. This isn't really a spoiler, but Jaeden Martell's character's computer — the one that we open up with him logging into AOL — eventually turns into a robot.

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