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A Near Crisis Remixed in New Year 2000 Trailer
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A Near Crisis Remixed in New Year 2000 Trailer

Our relationship with technology is really bad these days, but the last Year 2000 the trailer reminds everyone that computers were scary long before they became terrifying humanoid robots or algorithms to transform the planet’s precious resources into politically influential slop. The new trailer for Kyle Mooney’s alternate history comedy begins with another president (Bill Clinton) talking about another technological threat (the mythological Y2K bug). “We won’t have a major national collapse,” Clinton says, which, at least in the movie’s universe, turns out to be completely false.

Luckily, the threat doesn’t begin in earnest until the film’s stars get a few juicy 1999 quips like “someone’s on the net” and “he’s a pimp as hell.” That was before a jacked-up Barbie car rolled through the middle of their new one. Let’s wake up and start lighting fires using an aerosol can, a Bic lighter and a few cleverly arranged Lego pieces. “No major national rupture”, indeed.

And It is all this before the nostalgia fest unleashes its deadliest weapon yet: a DJ Earworm-style “breakdown” of its own trailer. Clips of various dial-up disasters were cut and screwed, including a garage robot, Kyle Mooney using devil sticks as a weapon to fend off said garage robot, an intimidating car full of wires, and a port-a-potty shelter . “They combine or something,” a frightened teenager says as he watches the hardware-made creatures emerge from a knockoff of Circuit City. When the robot overlords finally take control of our universe, perhaps it will be their Frankenstein.

Directed by Mooney Year 2000 based on a screenplay he wrote with Evan Winter. The film stars Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, The Kid Laroi, Lachlan Watson, Mason Gooding, Daniel Zolghadri, Eduardo Franco and Fred Durst. Send a message to your entire AIM friends list (but make sure no one is trying to use the phone at the same time) because Year 2000 premieres December 6 in theaters.