I’ve always been drawn to the 90’s era. When I think of nostalgia, I mainly picture the early 2000’s, as that was when my childhood was rampant. But the 90’s, especially the late 90’s is such a niche era of time that I feel people were very lucky to experience it as a teenager.

I love all things 90’s, like music, movies, and pop culture.

Y2K does an awesome job of immersing you into that era. From the opening sequence, we experience an Instant Messenger chat through AOL and I was hooked.

I expect nothing less from A24 at this point.

Y2K follows a quiet misfit named Eli, played by Jaeden Martell and his bestfriend Danny, played by Julian Dennison.

Together on NYE in 1999, the cusp before the infamous Y2K bug, they head to a party in hopes of Eli kissing a popular girl in their class that he knows as a tech nerd/computer hacker named Laura at midnight. Laura is played by Rachel Zegler.

If you don’t know, the Y2K bug was a mass hysteria type of event. Most people believed that when the clocks struck midnight and brought the entire world into the new millennium, that all electronics would stop working and cause catastrophic and apocalyptic events like mass power outages or planes falling out of the sky.

I would somewhat compare it to the 2012 hysteria when everyone thought the world was going to end.

Same shit different era.

Once midnight strikes at the party, the power goes out.

All technology becomes evil and powerful. They turn into random death machines and start attacking humans.

Director Kyle Mooney, who cameos in the film as my FAVORITE character and executive producer Jonah Hill do an amazing job with this movie.

The pacing is great. The humor is spot on, and the film is full of amazing supporting characters that you’ll be rooting to live throughout the film.

Match that with a 90’s era soundtrack and you’re in heaven.

I will also say, this movie has one of the best 90’s era cameos of all time!

My wife and I both enjoyed it!

*Siri play Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit*