On Tuesday the 10th, I went with my buddies after school to watch the 6:30 showing of Y2K, and oh boy did it destroy me.

Directed by Kyle Mooney, Y2K centers around the myth about computers going into a full meltdown in 1999, which actually happens through a robot invasion. I went in with zero expectations. Zero spoilers from commercials whatsoever. The only thing I knew was that it was produced by A24, who made some banger movies such as Hereditary and X. With a large cherry slurpee and a whole thing of subpar nachos, my friends and I sat to witness – what I hoped to see, peak.

The movie began off pretty solid with its late 90’s nostalgia, sets and clothing. There was a great character dynamic between the two main characters played by Jaeden Martel (It 2017) and Julian Dennison (Deadpool 2 and Hunt for the Wilder People) that felt a lot like Michael Cera and Jonah Hill’s characters in Superbad, which interested me because I really like Superbad as much as the next guy.

There were a lot of character set ups, such as a group of delinquent skater kids constantly doing tricks and filming it with their camera – especially Eduardo Franco’s character who had amazing quotable lines. There was that typical love interest subplot and other teen party movie raunchiness that we’ve all seen before. We were introduced to a frat boy who played as a small antagonist to Jaden Martel’s character who was in love with his ex-girlfriend. It was all very promising before it went down into the dumps in the case of extremely bad writing.

There was absolutely no build up to the horror aspects of the movie because I’m pretty sure the directors forgot that it was a horror movie, which was already great as is. A lot of the characters got killed off in such a small period of time once you realize that there was, indeed, a kill count, and it was devastating to see two certain characters being denied importance to the movie’s core die two minutes from one another.

The second and third act made absolutely no sense. There was no explanation to why this was all happening, and there was absolutely no indication that the writers knew how to write cohesively. There was a surprise cameo that they threw in to distract people from how flawed the writing of the movie was.

A lot of characters leave and return to the movie as if they had relevance before and the movie tries to make us feel emotional to them even though they had about two minutes of screentime as a side character than anything. I was honestly expecting a really cheesy horror movie, but man it was not good.

There were plenty of “its so dumb it’s funny” scenes but this movie was trying to take itself seriously at a few points that it became confusing. Is this a satirical parody movie or a movie that tries to take its plot somewhat seriously? This was also produced by A24, to remind you.

So if you want to watch a movie so dumb that you want to point and laugh at the writers, then this is the movie for you.