Rachel Zegler has not left the headlines in recent weeks, being caught up in a storm as some executives tried to blame her forSnow White’sbox office shortcomings. Just as many in the industry have defended Zegler though, whilealmost all reviews point to her as one of the film’s few high points.
Now, fans will have the chance to watch another of Rachel Zegler’s movies, with Y2K arriving on HBO Max on April 4. Zegler stars alongside It’s Jaeden Martell in this horror comedy as one of the teenagers trying to surivive a computerised apocalypse kicked off by the Y2K bug on the last night of 1999. If you don’t know what the Y2K bug was, ask your parents and also I hate you.
“Agonisingly Unfunny”
Despite being liked by very smart people (me), Y2K has just a 42 percent critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes, while the audience score of 52 percent isn’t much better.Kevin Maher, writing for The Times, claimed that “it is, at best, ironically stupid, in the Ed Wood Jr vein”, adding that it was “agonisingly unfunny”. Much of the critique revolves around the fact the movie can’t sustain its thin premise for the length of its runtime, which is particularly scathing when you consider the film is only 93 minutes long.
The film was directed by former SNL cast member Kyle Mooney in his directorial debut, while he also appears as a minor character in the film. Though Zegler is again praised for her performance, she really needs to start getting better roles. Since her debut in West Side Story, the only movie rated Fresh she’s appeared in isThe Hunger Games: A Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes, where she stars as Lucy Gray Baird. Shazam: Fury of the Gods, Spellbound, and now Y2K and Snow White all posted Rotten scores.
She only has to look to another Hunger Games star to see light at the end of the tunnel, though. Two of Jennifer Lawrence’s lowest rated movies where also added to streaming recently having flopped in the cinema, and Lawrence’s career is still going strong a decade later.
Also arriving on Max this month isThe Last of Us season two, though that will be hoping for slightly better review scores before it premieres on April 13.
