Y2K Film New Trailer: Millennial Apocalypse Comedy

Famously, nothing major happened in 1999 when the clock modified from 11:59 p.m. on December 31 to 12:00 a.m. on January 1, 2000. However… what if it did? That’s the overall concept behind Y2K, a brand new sci-fi horror comedy from director Kyle Mooney, starring a who’s who of superior younger actors together with Rachel Zegler from West Facet Story, Jaeden Martell from It, and Julian Dennison from Deadpool 2.

Within the movie, two teenagers crash a New Yr’s Eve social gathering—and at midnight, they witness the beginning of a worldwide apocalypse. The Y2K bug turns all know-how towards all people and it’s as much as the youngsters to save lots of themselves from killer VHS tapes, Tamagotchis, and all manner of retro tech. Try the brand-new trailer.

You would set any trailer to Chumbawamba and also you’re midway to perfection, however the Y2K trailer provides to it with all of the motion, creatures, and Nineties nostalgia. Like, for instance, sure, that’s Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst showing as himself (speak about a giant get in 1999). Alicia Silverstone’s look can be a fairly large wink again to the period. Tim Heidecker is in there. After which there’s Mooney himself. Although he’s bought a powerful checklist of producers behind him (together with Jonah Hill) and loads of artistic expertise, from working and writing on Saturday Night time Stay to the superior 2017 movie Brigsby Bear, Y2K marks his directorial debut.

And whereas Mooney guidelines, Dennison is hilarious, and Martell has a wild vary, the most important get in Y2K needs to be Zegler. After breaking out in Steven Spielberg’s West Facet Story, she popped up in Shazam 2 earlier than touchdown her first huge franchise: The Starvation Video games: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. That movie was a beast, grossing over $300 million worldwide and teeing up a sequel. Subsequent, apart from Y2K, she’s within the Netflix animated movie Spellbound after which, the large one, as Snow White in Disney’s upcoming live-action retelling of the traditional fairy story. There’s loads of controversy surrounding that movie, however since this comes out a number of months earlier than, it hits at an ideal time to capitalize on her title recognition.

Y2K debuted at South by Southwest earlier this yr the place it gained principally constructive opinions (presently it’s at 60% on Rotten Tomatoes), however A24 was assured sufficient to get behind it and it’s popping out on December 6. Although some opinions praised it via and thru, others thought the concept bought stretched a little bit skinny and didn’t fairly come collectively. Principally, it seems like a kind of films you’ll simply need to see and determine for your self. The trailer, a minimum of, makes it appear like a winner.

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