In 2017, actor and writer Kyle Mooney unleashed the delightful film “Brigsby Bear” into the world. While not a perfect work, his screenplay cowritten with Kevin Costello and directed by Dave McCary found plenty of humor and heart in its strange story of a man taken from a bunker he has been unknowingly trapped in all his life only to discover the show he’d been watching while down there never existed. It was the type of film that marked Mooney as a unique voice, more so than his often refreshingly weird nine-season run at “Saturday Night Live.”
His second feature, “Y2K,” struggles to capture that same magic.
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