Y2K
Summary
WhileA24 ’s new horror movieY2Klooks fun , the funniness is already a major risk for its indie distributor . A24 ’s revulsion moviesare often brilliant , but they can be something of a mixed dish . Although the allocator became pop thanks to the winner of title likeThe Witch , Hereditary , andMidsommar , A24 also released divisive exertion like 2022’sMenand 2014’sTusk . Much likethe rest of A24 ’s movies , the studio apartment ’s repugnance output is mixed in terms of its decisive receipt and its box business office impact .
However , 2024 still promises to be a crowing class for the electrical distributor . After the dashing hopes ofMen , A24 gain ground big by wager on director Alex Garland again whenCivil Warproved a huge boxful business office success . Meanwhile , A24 ’s forthcoming revulsion movieHereticboasts the talents ofA Quiet Place ’s screenwriters as well as the ingeniously unexpected stunt casting of Hugh Grant as its terrific villain . Neither of these picture show is quite as exciting as director Kyle Mooney’sY2 K , though . An alternate realism repulsion - comedy , Y2Kenvisions a world where the Millennium Bug was a real terror after all .
The wildly consistent and popular production / distribution ship’s company A24 has several very exciting projection set for wide passing in 2024 .
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With a batting order including Rachel Zegler , Alicia Silverstone , Julian Dennison , and Jaeden Martell , Y2 K ’s hurl of characterscouldn’t be more impressive . What makes the movie even more sympathetic is its dewy-eyed assumption . At first , Y2 K ’s trailer promises a come - of - geezerhood comedy where a pair of in high spirits schoolers pay heed a wild party that change their biography . After install this well - fall apart hope borrowed fromSuperbadandBooksmart , Y2 K ’s trailer then swap gears as the house party descend into gory chaos . The cosmos ’s electronics respond violently to the Millennium Bug , killing off countless reference asY2 K ’s submarine are forced to hide or campaign .
Y2 K contribution Beau Is Afraid ’s historically risky submarine - music genre .
It move around out thatY2Kis a gory horror - comedy rather than a aboveboard comedy , but this could be a speculative investment for A24.A24 ’s last horror - drollery , Beau Is Afraid , was a box office disaster one year beforeY2 K ’s release , andY2KsharesBeau Is Afraid ’s historically speculative hero sandwich - musical genre . To be fair to Mooney ’s motion picture , Y2Klooks much more approachable than the infamously weird , offbeatBeau Is Afraid . However , Y2 K ’s more commercial assumption and tonal advantage are undone by its roll , which does n’t sport an A - listing star of Joaquin Phoenix ’s order of magnitude . Phoenix ’s cardinal role was n’t enough to saveBeau Is Afraidfrom loser .
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WhileA24 ’s other 2024 repugnance movieseems like a surefire box bureau success , Y2Khas a more complicated route forrader of it . Almost all of A24 ’s repulsion - drollery movies are among the allocator ’s least popular passing among critic . 2021’sFalse Positive , 2018’sSlice , and 2014’sLife After Bethall struggled to gain over critics beforeBeau Is Afraidbombed at the box office and dual-lane reviewers . With the lone elision of 2022’sBodies Bodies Bodies , A24 ’s repulsion - clowning have all under - performed critically , commercially , or both upon release .
Y2 K ’s chronicle of a Millennium Bug that cause bloody havoc may still be able to avoid A24 ’s revulsion - comedy curse .
fortuitously , Bodies Bodies Bodiesdoes provide a picayune hope for Y2K. UnlikeY2K , Bodies Bodies Bodieswas a satirical slasher rather than a sci - fi horror mashed up with a coming - of - age funniness . However , bothBodies Bodies BodiesandY2Kare marketed more as comedies than revulsion and both boast buzzy casts occupy with young go forth stars . As such , Y2 K ’s story of a Millennium Bugthat do bally havoc may still be capable to debar A24 ’s horror - comedy curse . Sadly , other response toY2 K ’s lagger raise this wo n’t be easy .
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A24’s Y2K Reception Is Already Divided
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The comer ofY2 K ’s trailer prompted mixed reaction , with some TV audience wondering whether the repulsion movie was intended to be comic and others debating whether the horror elements were intended to be played flat . This does n’t bode too well for the movie , althoughY2 chiliad ’s later trailers might be able to clear up tonal confusion . The primal issue seems to arise from the fact thatY2 K ’s trailer shroud its horror elements for as long as possiblebefore finally unwrap them with a cheeky “ From the studio that lend you Hereditary . ”
Y2Kwill almost certainly not be as dark as that Ari Aster movie . However , this did go some commenters to derisively observe thatY2 K ’s trailer mentionedHereditarydespite seeming closer in tone toSmall Soldiers . Although Joe Dante ’s underrated 1998 adventure flick does seem like an influence , this impression could lead viewers to marvel whoY2 K ’s prey audience is considering the movie ’s graphic violence . Hopefully , A24 ’s selling forY2Kwill be able-bodied to clear up the intend timbre of the horror - comedy before the sub - genre ends up bring forth another undeserved corner office under - performer .
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