Y2K is a 2024 horror comedy film that is bafflingly foolish and absurd in its plot and narrative and really made me wonder how Rachel Zegler found herself here after starring in Spielberg’s West Side Story. Entirely centered around late ‘90s nostalgia and the real Y2K scare at the turn of the century, the film follows the tribulations of a teenager, Eli, as humanity faces the scare of becoming slaves to technology and robots, quite literally. Overall, Y2K might be a good watch if you are interested in weird and off-kilter presentations but can be easily avoided by regular audiences because of its paper-thin plot.

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What is the film about?

Y2K begins with a close-up of a computer screen, with the programs being run making it very clear that it is the late 1990s. The user connects his computer to the internet using a dial-up network, watches...