Jobless bass guitarist Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) has just met the girl of his dreams (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but he must battle her seven evil exes to win her heart â inevitably dragging his promiscuous gay roommate (Kieran Culkin), indie-rock bandmates, and a “bi-furious” ex-lover (Mae Whitman) into the mix. Director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) creates a movie unlike anything you’ve ever seen: a fast-paced, fight-filled romcom with an eye-popping video game aesthetic that combines knowingly funny hipster humor about how much the movie sucks compared to the comic book, genuinely good indie rock sequences (courtesy of Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich), and intelligent, emotionally-rounded characters wrestling with their romantic pasts.
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2 Sentence Movie Reviews: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
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Mike L.
I don’t care what critics may think, the whole idea of the movie action looking like a vs video game peaked my attention đ
kevwyn
saw it loved it -gay wallace steals the scenes
DaveNy
WOW another piece of crap from Micheal Cera!
Baxter
“Funny hipster humor”? Is that supposed to be ironic?
GaryG
How many movies can be made with Michael Cera playing the same basic character, with only minor variations? Just asking…
Yuki
It was a fantastic movie, in my opinion. Well worth seeing, and Michael Cera is less Michael Cera-y than his other movies.
Syl
Ugh, Michael Cera. This movie was so hipster I could smell the clove cigarettes and lack of showering. And seriously, picking the damaged goods flaky punk chick-whose seven exes try to kill you if you want to date her-over a hot genki girl Asian jailbait?
@kevwyn: Agreed. Hell, he and Knives were the only enjoyable parts of the movie.
Sceth
The males-fight-over-females trope kinda irks me.
Ken S
All my friends are going on about how “cool” it looks but I find the whole video-game-as-a-movie aesthetic looks *really* stupid đ Plus didn’t we learn our lesson from the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat movies? And “k-pow” on the screen when someone gets punched– isn’t that the campy silliness that we make fun of now when Batman re-runs are on?
The last commercial for this that I saw called it “a stunning visual” something-r-other. So’s a flash-bang grenade. To me, promoting a film as “a stunning visual” something-r-other is basically a concession that it doesn’t have much else going for it story-wise or acting-wise. It’s like “pay $10 to come be mindlessly hypnotized by bright, flashing colours… no refunds in the event of seizure.” đ
Jacob l
I loved the books since i read the first 10 pages of the book. i waited in anticipation for the movie to come out. i was so excited. about 5 minutes into the movie i wanted to scream. they had messed up the begining. i knw they couldn’t fit the whole thing in there, but they changed the intro quite a bit. including the order of how stuff happened. the band “clash at the demonhead” wasn’t supposed to appear until scott broke up with knives. but envy was mentioned quite early on. they skipped the whole dispute between knives’ father and scott. the trip to the beach. the first kiss between knives and scott. EVEN THOUGH knives claimed to envy that she kissed the lips that kissed hers. they skipped the breakup between young neil and knives. and they totally messed up how often the ex boyfriends showed up. the battle between the twins didn’t occur the way it was supposed too. and this isn’t all the errors. i’m just listing the bigger ones.
David Ehrenstein
Utterly adored it. Especially Kirian Culkin’s Wallace.
REBELComx
@GaryG: Hasn’t Will Smith’s entire career been just that? It’s not acting if you’re playing yourself.
GaryG
@REBELComx: Excellent point, but to be completely honest, I’ve never watched an entire Will Smith movie, the Fresh Prince of Bel Air sorta annoyed me enough
L.
@Baxter: Or an oxymoron.
samthor
i think its kinda cool that one of the evil ex’s is Anne from Arrested Development…. but that’s just me