CW: embarrassing cringe teen misogynistic language and messy deaths by power tools.
A movie so cringe it makes a point of having Fred Durst (as himself) in it.
It initially lays the 90s high school cheese on so thick it can't get out of its own way but then at the stroke of midnight the Y2K bug happens and the machines come to life.
The ensuing chaos has chimera piles of tech, tools and toys chasing the cast around a small town occasionally picking one or more off in various comedic ways. We get death by ejected high speed spinning CDs and knockout by VHS tapes.
It's purposely awful and knows it, riffing so hard on a back catalogue of trashy movies, 90s internet imagery and needle drops that it comes out the other side to being actually quite fun.
The killer robots are amusing and range from "guy with an iMac on his head" and hedge trimmers for hands, through RC cars with drills attached to dishwashers and various white goods munching on people. It looks like a mix of costume, puppetry, stop motion and computer graphics depending on what suits the moment. The 'virtual reality' animation stuff and when Laura does 'hacking' really captures the shiny feel of the era.
Durst can't act but has to take credit for letting the movie basically call him a sellout loser every moment he's on screen. Yes he does do a song.
You've got to be in the mood for it but if you let the whole retro vibe wash over you it sort of works 6/10.
