Scott Pilgrim vs the World is a rather unique movie based on a comic book series. The film is a wonderful flick filled with candy violence, music, and campiness to an infinite degree which in the end turns out to be a wonderful collage of enjoyment.
It is a train ride through the love life on one canadian by the name of Scott Pilgrim who meets the girl of his dreams. He is not informed though that she has an entire league of ex's that wish to control her love life. Fortunately for Scott Pilgrim though he seems to have the ability to do kung fu and battle in a world of video games.
Yes, I said video games.
As he goes through winning the heart of this young lady he duels the seven evil ex's to the death which turns into video game style fights. The fights contain anime style running at the speed of mach 3, leaping through the air like humming birds, and when the evil ex is defeated they actually give him points and turn into a shower of coins. Despite how totally ridiculous it may sound the movie was only truly enjoyable because of the over the big top silliness.
It is never explained why everything is treated as if though it is a video game and I truthfully don’t care. It requires no explanation. When you have a veagan with mind control powers, ear blowing bass rock offs, and giant gorillas fighting kung fu dragons you don’t want realism to get in the way of it.
This is truly a rare movie that cannot be properly explained and if you’re not a huge video game geek you may not enjoy it. I for one though quite enjoyed it once the movie got going. It may have started a bit slow but with the first girlfriend by the name of Knives and the gay roomie who manages to turn a good portion of the males in the movie into raging homosexuals the movie gets into a rip roaring mood that only continues to speed up until the crescendo that is the fight between Scott Pilgrim and the last evil ex.
Thus far this is the best film I’ve seen this year and I highly recommend it for any true geek. Until next time, whateve’s.
What's tragic is that it is BOMBING in the box office :-( It's such a great movie, it's a shame the numbers on it are so bad, since I know no one who didn't like it.
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