Stuck In The 00s

Stuck In The 00s (pronounced as Stuck In The Double-O’s; released in the United Kingdom and Kuboia as Stuck In The Noughties) is a 2004 American time travel comedy film written and directed by Jeffrey Saxx. Starring Malachi Tyrus, Christian Daumoinx, Ms. Lee, and George Makoni, it follows a funk musician from 1974 who is accidentally accused for escaping an experiment by a scientist where he is cryogenically frozen for 3 years, only for his cryogenic chamber to have accidentally been released into a garbage chute, and wakes up in 30 years by a street kid, and needs help to go back to his own time, along with trying to blend in to his new and unfamiliar peers.

Plot
In 1974 at a theater in the fictional town of Makeshift, Illinois, a band called Soulful Pleasure, which is led by Samuel "Sammy" Weston (DJ Mala), wins a talent show with a prize of $1,000 and a 4-year record deal with A&M Records. When Samuel goes to the back of the club for a smoking break, he is captured by two CIA agents, Randy (Chad Allen; Christopher Walken) and Marshall (Ted Jones: Michael Clayton) who mistake him for a runaway fugitive who coincidentally looks like him, take him to a secret laboratory where a scientist, Dr. Malmus (Donny Crusoe) knocks him out with sleeping gas and places him in cryogenic chamber and is scheduled to wake him up by three years time. Back at the club, the agents from earlier realize that they captured the wrong person and rush back to the lab to obtain Sammy, only to be revealed that the scientist had clumsily pushed a garbage chute button that vacuumed a lot of things in the room, including the chamber. Disappointed, they both quit their jobs as CIA agents and leave for a new life in Shlaukon, revealing them to both be in a homosexual relationship.

30 years later in the present, a homeless boy, Andy Watsons (Christian Daumoinx), who spends his life on the streets of Chicago freestyling for money, discovers the cryogenic tube in the back of a dark alley and manages to wake Samuel up by pouring a can of Mountain Dew Amp into his mouth, which gives him a brief moment of shock, as energy drinks weren't invented back then. Samuel is at first excited that he's in the future, only for his excitement to instantly turn into frustration as the future wasn't what he expected after being run over by a Mama Mark III. Andy offers to help him get accustomed to the 21st century, only for him having to be overwhelmed by certain modern technologies like cellphones, computers, DVDs, VHS tapes, energy drinks, and even a Svensson Dynamikk, which he fearfully kicks into the road, causing it to be run over. Andy’s 20-year old friend, Kayla (Ms. Lee), who works as a janitor at a Domino’s Pizza, gives him a room to stay in at her apartment until he returns to his own time.

Meanwhile, in Shlaukia Valley, Shlaukon, Randy and Marshall have since been engaged and are seen laying down with each other, only for CIA agents to burst in and capture them, taking them back to the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. There, the two agents meet the CIA's deputy director, Julius Richards (George Makoni), who informs the two that Samuel Weston was released from his chamber, "30 years, too late", and since the two failed to save him in the past, he orders the two to kill him, offering them a $25 million dollar check in return, should they fail, they will be thrown to the bottom of Bermuda Triangle, which only the CIA knows, actually is a gateway to Hell. Back in Chicago, Samuel has already become slightly accustomed to the present day, even taking a liking to present-day music genres like house and hip hop music, even learning to rap in beat. During one of Andy's street performances, this time featuring Samuel, the duo's rap becomes a success that they manage to land a deal with American DJ, Armand van Helden's record label, Armed Records, even being featured on one of his non-album tracks. Samuel begins to think about staying in the present, but is convinced by Andy that he still has to return to his own time nonetheless, which Samuel agrees to.

During one of Armand's performances with the duo, the agents manage to catch up with Samuel and kidnap him and Andy, which leaves van Helden shocked. At the Bermuda Triangle, Randy and Marshall are seen ready to drop the two in the Bermuda Triangle, with Julius watching the event inside. Just when it looks like the two will be dropped, it turns out that Randy and Marshall had no intent of killing him and kills the abusive deputy director instead as punishment for ruining their new lives in Shlaukon. The two agents apologize to Samuel and Andy for everything and give them time travel belts so that Samuel can go home and so Andy can visit him anytime. Samuel successfully returns to 1974 shortly after his old self was captured, while in the present, Andy is fired from Armed Records for Samuel having left, although he uses the money from the royalty checks to open up his own label, Andson, which manages to become a success and lead to Andy getting his own loft apartment. Meanwhile, Andy is seen walking downtown, until he discovers that Samuel and Soulful Pleasure performed and released “Smooth Criminal” by Michael Jackson in 1976 as a single. Furious that Samuel broke his promise not to change the past, Andy travels back in time and threatens to kill Samuel with a chainsaw in revenge, which leads to a chase afterwards.

Cast

 * Malachi Tyrus as Samuel "Sammy" Weston
 * Christian Daumoinx as Andy Watsons
 * Christopher Walken as Randy
 * Chad Allen as 1974 Randy
 * Michael Clayton as Marshall
 * Ted Jones as 1974 Marshall
 * Ms. Lee as Kayla
 * George Makoni as Julius Richards
 * Donny Crusoe as Dr. Malmus
 * Armand van Helden as himself
 * Tyler Perry as Alann
 * Idris Elba as Edmond
 * Karey Collins as Joanna
 * Derek Snider as James
 * Tony Saxxon as CIA Agent #1
 * Bruno E. Coulais as CIA Agent #2