Remember when experts widely predicted that the turning of a new millennium would cause massive systems chaos? Spoilers: that never happened but new disaster comedy imagines it did! Hit those nostalgia buttons folks and watch the first trailer for Y2K…
From Saturday Night Live’s Kyle Mooney and his creative partner Evan Winter, Y2k follows Eli and Danny, two lovable outcasts who are just trying to survive high school. They’re loyal, intrepid, but largely invisible to their more popular peers — including any cute girl they’ve been saving their lone collective condom for. Nevertheless, they persist, inviting themselves to the party of the year, thrown by a dickish jock known as Soccer Chris (multihyphenate musician The Kid Laroi).
Things might even be starting to move forward for them both in the romance department, when the clocks strike midnight and suddenly all hell breaks loose. Electronics come to homicidal life power drills flip and toasters rebel and a blender forsakes making smoothies for grislier pleasures.
Soon, our heroes are on the run with a motley crew of panicked survivors in tow, and a clanking monstrosity of Millennium-deranged tech in hot pursuit. But can these crazy kids save mankind before the Singularity takes over? Can Eli win Laura’s heart, without watching it get scraped out first by a rogue refrigerator? And will Fred Durst be forced to bring the zombified grownups of the world back to life with an epic, gymnasium-rattling rendition of George Michael’s ‘Faith’?
“My version of it in my head is that it was New Year’s Eve going into 2019. My then-girlfriend, now wife, and I threw a party, and probably went pretty hard to some degree,” says Moony on how the idea first came about. “And Evan and I were hanging out quite a bit at the time because we have a group of friends who were doing trivia regularly at a bar close by. But yeah, I woke up on New Year’s Day and started thinking “Oh, what if Y2K actually happened?
“Evan is such a talented writer and a real cinephile, that he was the first person I thought of telling “I have this small thing, this little seed, this concept.” And we were pretty much off to the races!”
The movie stars Jaeden Martell (Arcadian), Rachel Zegler (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Julian Dennison (Deadpool 2), Alicia Silverstone, The Kid Laroi, and Fred Durst.
Y2K will be released in cinemas on 6 December
