Kyle Mooney Takes You Back to 1999 in “Y2K” Featurette

Kyle Mooney was one of my favorite performers on Saturday Night Live in the last few years, and not just because we share a last name. His very weird, very Millennial humor hit my funny bone directly. He continued his brand of offbeat comedy with Netflix's animated Saturday Morning All Star Hits. Now that his time on SNL has ended, he's returned with his second feature film Y2K.

It's hard to believe that 1999 - the best movie year ever and the height of the Y2K panic - was 25 years ago. Mooney was just 15 then (I was a bit younger) and in the video below he pretends to relive his misspent youth in the modern day. That involves playing hackysack, quoting South Park, and riding a skateboard - all of them poorly. But the comedy gold comes from his interactions with real, annoyed people. Take a look.

Y2K opens in theaters on Friday, December 6.

About Kip Mooney

Like many film critics born during and after the 1980s, my hero is Roger Ebert. The man was already the best critic in the nation when he won the Pulitzer in 1975, but his indomitable spirit during and after his recent battle with cancer keeps me coming back to read not only his reviews but his insightful commentary on the everyday. But enough about a guy you know a lot about. I knew I was going to be a film critic—some would say a snob—in middle school, when I had to voraciously defend my position that The Royal Tenenbaums was only a million times better than Adam Sandler’s remake of Mr. Deeds. From then on, I would seek out Wes Anderson’s films and avoid Sandler’s like the plague. Still, I like to think of myself as a populist, and I’ll be just as likely to see the next superhero movie as the next Sundance sensation. The thing I most deplore in a movie is laziness. I’d much rather see movies with big ambitions try and fail than movies with no ambitions succeed at simply existing. I’m also a big advocate of fun-bad movies like The Room and most of Nicolas Cage’s work. In the past, I’ve written for The Dallas Morning News and the North Texas Daily, which I edited for a semester. I also contributed to Dallas-based Pegasus News, which in the circle of life, is now part of The Dallas Morning News, where I got my big break in 2007. Eventually, I’d love to write and talk about film full-time, but until that’s a viable career option, I work as an auditor for Wells Fargo. I hope to one day meet my hero, go to the Toronto International Film Festival, and compete on Jeopardy. Until then, I’m excited to share my love of film with you.