Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

2010 • 112 minutes

About this movie

Genre-smashing filmmaker Edgar Wright tells the amazing story of one romantic slacker's quest to power up with love. Scott Pilgrim's (Michael Cera) new crush has the most unusual baggage of all: a nefarious league of exes who control her love life and will do whatever it takes to eliminate him as a suitor.

Ratings and reviews

I really enjoyed the concept of the movie: making the intangible part of a relationship we all must deal with (the emotional baggage of exes we carry into new relationships) tangible by allowing the character to physically defeat the exes in duels to ultimately overcome and triumph in the new relationship. Perhaps it has been done before, but I have not witnessed it. However, while watching, I found that I enjoyed the concept and the quirky characters and their short bursts of comedic dialogue astoundingly more than the cheesy, over-the-top fight sequences. I realize the fights were done in this way purposely, and that it is supposed to be comedic and a symbol of Michael Cera's character overcoming his interest's baggage, but I couldn't help but feel they took away from a really fantastic and super quirky film in its own right. Perhaps I am in search for a different type of movie not found here, though, which is why I still rated it 4/5 stars. I did enjoy it, and it's the type of movie which gets better as it continues, so don't give up on it before the half-way mark. TL;DR: Skip through fights which do pretty much nothing and search for more beautiful character development.

If you didn't read any of the books, you thought is was pretty good. If you DID read the books, you thought that it was probably the best it realistically could've been. The downs did have its ups. For example, making it live actions was a pretty weird choice, but most of the special effects were very good. I think they casted Scott horrendously, (he's supposed to be a half-mature, confident, and unapologetic person, but he became a quiet... loser? Felt off) but Wallace, Roxie, Julie, and Ramona were pretty good. They changed a lot of things that sometimes felt waaay too important to change, but I'm also glad it didn't just do a copy/paste of the book series. (I was kinda ticked that they forgot the whole Nega Scott thing, but managed to make it a decent joke at the end) My main problem is that it forgot way too much of the books. No bionic arm girl from TCAD, Scott moving to Ramonas after getting a job, Lisa was only mentioned in name (total shame, she's a great character) and no Roxie sleeping with Ramona for a bit, no Kim being kidnapped by the twins (also mostly forgotten), no wilderness sabattical, and ESPECIALLY very little use of Subspace, one of the most interesting parts of the whole series. It was just... lost. TL:DR: Decent, but disappointing if you knew enough about the series. (But I was LMAO when Scott jumped out the window)

Rather than attack the films' concept, plot flow, and dialogue, I am instead going to state how it made me feel. After having watched this film, I feel like someone collected at least half of all dreams I had during High School, both waking and sleeping, added a dash of Napoleon Dynamite, half a stick of grunge, and baked it on *HIGH* for 20 minutes. It was a great movie to test on an Android Tablet, everything I was hoping it would be and then some. I almost feel as though I missed something for having not seen it in a movie theater. For 112 minutes I was dreaming a movie.