Y2K | 2024 | R | – 6.8.10

Why is “Y2K” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “bloody violence, strong sexual content/nudity, pervasive language, and teen drug and alcohol use.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a few pornographic video scenes including nudity, a few kissing scenes, many scenes of people being murdered by household appliances and robots built from electronic devices that have a mission to destroy humans while showing a lot of blood and dismemberment, many arguments and bullying, and over 100 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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New Year’s Eve celebrations turn bloody when the predicted horrors of technology running rampant as the year 2000 arrives come true and a group of teens try to save the world before humankind is destroyed. With Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, Daniel Zolghadri, Lachlan Watson, Fred Durst, Kyle Mooney, Eduardo Franco, Mason Gooding, Lauren Balone, Alicia Silverstone, Tim Heidecker and Maureen Sebastian. Directed by Kyle Mooney. [Running Time: 1:33]

Y2K SEX/NUDITY 6

 – A computer screen shows a pornographic video where a fully nude woman straddles a man and thrusts (we see her bare breasts, abdomen and legs and his bare chest and abdomen) and we see this a couple of times. A picture of a topless woman slowly paints on a computer screen and we see a woman’s bare breasts; a teen boy watches and remarks about her areolas.
► A teen girl straddles a teen boy in a bed at a party; we see the girl’s partially bare back. A teen boy and a teen girl kiss and embrace. Teens are seen kissing at a party.
► A teen boy makes suggestive hip thrusting gestures in several scenes; one time in what resembles a music video with suggestive lyrics. Two teen boys hand each other a wrapped condom several times throughout an evening. A teen boy puts a condom on a teen girl’s hand.
► A teen boy tells his friend to stop flirting with his mother. A woman asks her teenage son if he will be getting a kiss from a special girl at a party. A teen girl says, “I don’t really know if I’m into guys.” A young man and a teen girl seem to be breaking up. A teen boy talks about a teen girl being the girl of his dreams.
► A teen boy’s pants bulge at the crotch from an erection. Teen girls wear tops that reveal cleavage and bare abdomens in several scenes.

Y2K VIOLENCE/GORE 8

 – A teen boy tries to block a door closed, a blade is thrust through the door and his back and out his chest (we see blood on the blade and the teen’s chest and a smear on the wall behind him) and the teen falls to the floor and dies. Lights in a house flash, strange noises are heard, appliances make grinding sounds, a microwave shorts out and we hear a teen girl screaming from a room upstairs; we see a teen boy lying dead on the floor with a blade from a ceiling fan stuck in his head and blood all around and the teen girl is crouched against a wall and spattered with blood. A motorized car with a computer screen attached to it rolls into a room where teens try to figure out what’s happening; mechanical arms hold a can of hairspray and a lighter and spray flames onto a teen boy’s face (he collapses to the floor). A hand drill on wheels drills through a teen girl’s temple and blood pours from the wound as she screams. A blender is seen grinding a teen boy’s crotch (blood fills the blender). An electric shaver cuts a teen boy’s neck and face (blood sprays). A teen boy’s hand is stuck in a garbage disposal and we see his hand is missing and blood sprays when he pulls it out. A teen boy trips on a dishwasher door and lands with his head in a microwave and it smokes and sizzles. A teen boy is struck in the face and head by a CD player that shoots CDs; we see one stuck in his skull and the other in his cheek with blood at the wounds as he dies.
► A giant robot tries to cut teens using a saw; a man arms himself with two sticks and charges the robot and it cuts his arm off and then his head (we see them fall to the ground and blood sprays). A teen boy tries to skate on the pole of a fallen basketball hoop and falls hitting his head on a curb and dies (blood pools on the ground under him). We hear a teen boy pounding on a closed door and yelling before hearing a whirring sound and the yelling stops. Two passenger planes crash together mid-air and burst into flames. Four teens stand on a cliff overlooking their town and we see everything in flames. A teen girl is grabbed around the throat by a robot arm and choked; a teen boy tries to attack the robot and it head-butts the teen knocking him out, and another teen boy pours water on the robot, shorting it out.
► A chip is implanted in a man’s temple and we see a screen depicting a serene setting that he is apparently seeing. Giant robots made of cobbled-together electronic devices walk through streets and buildings. A large structure built of electronic equipment collapses on the floor in a pile of rubble. Several scenes show people being rounded up by robots and held in a school’s gymnasium awaiting assimilation; we see other people seeming to be in a trance with a glowing implant in their temples. A teen boy slams a portable CD player against a tree and yells in frustration. People throw things at a man and a teen girl on a stage. A teen boy calls another teen boy a name and punches him in the crotch. A video player shoots a tape out and hits a teen girl in the head (we see a bruise). A teen girl punches a teen boy in the chest when he tries to take her camera.
► A man talks about many people dying at a concert. We hear a voice announcing that people will be going through an assimilation process and that “any attempt to escape will be met with violent death.” Several teens make fun of two other teens in several scenes calling them names and mocking them. Teens argue about types of music in several scenes. Several people yell, “Let’s break stuff,” and begin destroying electronic equipment in a store. A video game on a computer screen shows a character punching another character and the head of the second character pops off. A young girl makes the shape of an “L” (for loser) with her fingers against her forehead as a teen boy passes by.
► Several teens steal beer and liquor from a store and run away as the shop owner chases them. A teen boy breaks a lock on a liquor cabinet and drinks from a bottle of liquor. Many teens in a house are seen drinking and smoking cigarettes and marijuana at a party. A man takes two teens into a separate room in a video store (adult movies are on display there) and smokes a drug from a small pipe before sharing with one of the teens that quickly seems to be feeling the effects of the drug.
► Four people hide in a portable toilet from a robot threatening them and the toilet slides down a hill splashing them all with urine and waste (we see the waste); they cough and gag when they climb out. A teen tells a story about urinating in another teen’s soda can and the second teen drank some of it not knowing.

Y2K LANGUAGE 10

 – About 106 F-words and its derivatives, 1 obscene hand gesture, 6 sexual references, 43 scatological terms, 29 anatomical terms, 38 mild obscenities, name-calling (sticky, boring, weirdos, nerd, insane, loser, Kiwi, crazy, perv, Slim Shady, hippy losers, scaggy, stupid, corny, freaks, rejects, anarchy squad, big nut, binary code Barbie, little nut, whack, vodka man, idiots, naughty, pathetic, dud, drone), exclamations (what gives, oh snap, get over yourself, what’s your deal), 2 religious profanities (GD), 11 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus, Jesus Christ, God, my God, oh my God). | profanity glossary |

Y2K SUBSTANCE USE

 – A man takes two teens into a separate room (he calls it the champagne room) in a video store (adult movies are on display) and smokes a drug from a small pipe before sharing with one of the teens that quickly seems to be feeling the effects of the drug, a man makes reference to “tripping” a few times, teens ask about whether the drug ecstasy can cause holes in your brain, teens smoke marijuana cigarettes in a few scenes, a man says that he has “herb,” “shrooms” and acid, a teen says that she “rolled a fatty,” a man swallows several unidentified pills from a plastic bag, and a teen boy asks if anyone has any “herb.” Several teens steal beer and liquor from a store and run away as the shop owner chases them, many teens drink beer and alcohol at a party, and two teens drink from bottles of liquor and pour some in a water bottle that they take with them. Teens smoke cigarettes in a few scenes.

Y2K DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – 2000, technology, computers, the Internet, Bill Clinton, friendship, “The Giver,” “Junior,” popularity, Trojan Horse, apocalypse, algorithms, Tipper Gore, computer hacking, computer viruses, saving the world.

Y2K MESSAGE

 – We can save the world if we work together.