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There is a fresh longing for raves of yore — there’s a reason Charli XCX is singing about wanting to hear the club classics.

The desert setting and chomping alien monsters give “The Last Dance” a whiff of “Starship Troopers,” a soupçon of “Tremors,” nodding to those self-consciously campy B-movie creature features of yore.

The over-the-top events artfully channel the killer bee hysteria of the 1990s as well as the campy made-for-TV sci-fi disaster movies of yore, making “Bee-nado” both a bit bonkers and strangely comforting.

Five of the six main Japanese characters are Asian, and an essay in the program booklet calls for removing the “white gaze,” making this a fanciful Hollywood of yore.

The Mouse House is still attempting to recreate its lucrative tween strategy of yore.