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‘Y2K’ Review: A 1999 Youth Nostalgia Comedy That Turns Into… an Attack-of-the-Computers Zombie Movie. But Only the First One Is Fun
Jaeden Martell and Rachel Zegler star in Kyle Mooney's amusing for a while but ultimately listless satirical sci-fi disaster comedy.
“Praise You” and “Tubthumping.” Not to mention the last fading version of that mythic figure, the video-store clerk — in this case a blissed-out druggie with hippie dreads named Garrett, played by Mooney, whose cracked performance, all “Yo!” and “wha-a-a-at? These two hang around, making comic hay out of their whiplash fusion of bravado and self-doubt, and then they get ready to go to a New Year’s Eve house party at the suburban home of a douchebag named “Soccer” Chris (played by the Australian rapper The Kid Laroi). But once Eli, Laura, and two of the other kids escape, wandering through the woods and the empty streets (where they observe, from a hill, a cityscape dotted with fire), the film descends into that listless anecdotal vibe that drives me nuts in so many zombie movies (where the undead are the only thing really alive in them).
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