The Boston Globe calls it a "Lousy disaster knockoff," and "Pure and utter bosh."

The Dallas Morning News calls its "As gripping as an episode of 'Love Boat'."

And Energy Northwest says 'Y2K: The Movie' is simply "A means to profit from others' fears."

Move over, Mr. Movie.

Pardon operators of Plant No. 2 at Hanford for judging a movie by its advertising. It's just that they'd rather squirm through a 'Cabin Boy/Ishtar' double feature than watch NBC's made-for-TV disaster flick, which airs Sunday nightat 9.

"Must-see TV," it ain't, they say.

In 'Y2K: The Movie,' airing just in time for sweeps, airplanes fall out of the sky, blackouts spread across the Eastern Seaboard and a meltdown is threatened at a nuclear power plant - in Washington state.

Plant No. 2, just 10 miles north of Richland, is the state's only operating nuclear plant. Sensitive to what they believe is a misguided and overly fearful public perception of the nuclear industry, officials at Energy Northwest just want to know what gives.

First Homer Simpson, now this.

"We're disappointed that Hollywood would use this event as a means to profit from others' fears," Rod Webring, vice president of operations for Energy Northwest, said in a written statement.

For the record, Energy Northwest has spent $6.5 million todeal with the Y2K issue andall of its equipment is testedand ready to go, officials said.

They aren't alone. The Edison Electric Institute, which represents electric utilities, also has chimed in on the issue, fearing viewers will get the wrong idea about the industry's state of readiness.

But David Israel, themovie's executive producer, saidpeople are overreacting.

"The people who are going to panic, who think the apocalypse is going to occur, are well into this already," he told The Associated Press. "They've been stocking goods, getting wood-burning furnaces, building domestic caves in Montana for an awful long time."

To be fair, reviews of the movie aren't all bad. Newsday says the movie is "Not a bad gimmick in the almighty chase for ratings."

And while acknowledging the timing is poor, the Albany Times Union says, "By television standards, this is a surprisingly good movie."

KNDU, the Tri-City NBC affiliate, says it plans to air the same disclaimer the network is preparing to warn viewers the movie is based purely on fiction.

That may not be enough to fend off Energy Northwest and other critics, many of whom undoubtedly will opt for something more sophisticated, a 'Rocky V' video, perhaps.