I love the Scott Pilgrim books by Bryan Lee O'Malley. I would even say the combined six volumes go ahead of Watchmen as my favorite comic book ever. I love Spaced, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz all directed by Edgar Wright, so Naturally I was rather excited when it was announced that Edgar Wright would be directing the Scott Pilgrim movie. My excitement was tempered for a long time because I didn't know what the movie would look like. When the first trailer came out in March I was thrilled, and August felt like it was years away.
When I finally got to see the movie I was a little nervous. About two minutes in I knew they had nailed it. The music was very well chosen, specifically Beck's songs for Sex Bob-omb and a Metric song for The Clash at Demonhead. Nigel Godrich's score was excellent. The stunt team deserves a ton of credit as the fight scenes were such an important part of the movie. Edgar Wright's direction, Bill Pope's cinematography and the editing and the Art Direction and the visual effects and... you get the point. I guess what I'm saying is, for me Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is almost a perfect movie.
A lot of people don't like Michael Cera. I'm not one of them. The common criticism is that he always plays the same character. I think that's bullshit. He always plays some form of young socially awkward person, but they are all different characters(except for Year One). Michael Cera is awesome as Scott Pilgrim. Admittedly, he isn't exactly the Scott I saw in my head reading the books, but I thought he was a great Scott nonetheless. Alison Pill, Mark Webber and Johnny Simmons were all fantastic as the rest of Sex Bob-omb, although I wish they could have included more of Kim's back story. Ellen Wong has an amazing debut movie performance, and I liked Mary Elizabeth Winstead a lot too, bringing the Ramona I saw in the books to life. Kieran Culkin as Wallace pretty much steals the movie, and Brandon Routh as Todd Ingram and Mae Whitman as Roxie Richter should also be praised as my favorite evil exes.
All things considered I couldn't be happier with Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and will be counting the days until I can own the Blu-Ray.
**** out of ****
Bucket List Item #29
1. While driving, put on Alan Silvestri's Back to the Future theme.
2. Accelerate to 88mph.
3. Make time travel noises. Also a flashing light would be a plus.
4. Pretend it's the future(or the past)
5. Repeat steps 1-3 to get back to the present.
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