Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (2010)

  Being a fan of the graphic novel, I was incredibly anxious to see this film. I was in no way dissapointed with the adaptation. Every second was bright with colour and cheezy as hell graphics and special effects, from the re-vamped, pixel graphic and MIDI orchestrated "Universal Studios" logo and theme, to the mind blowing final fight sequence. It is also riddled with video game and pop culture references.

  Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is a lazy 22 year old, who lives with his gay roomate Wallace Wells (Keiran Culkin). He's trying to make it big with his band, Sex Bob-omb and is currently dating a 17 year old high school girl. That is until he meets Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and his life is turned upside down, because, to be with Ramona, he need to defeat her seven evil exes.

  No-one really thinks "action star" when they think of Michael Cera, star of "Juno" and "Superbad", but he proves to be an incredibly competent hero and leading man. Not to mention he beats the crap out of former Superman, Brandon Routh, and former Human Torch and future Captain America, Chris Evans. The rest of the cast do a really great  job of eminating the quirkiness of the characters of the Scott Pilgrim universe.

  The first half of the film is incredibly true to its graphic novel counterpart, and the second half takes a new twist on the story, due to the fact that writer/director Edgar Wright began working on the screenplay well before the final three installments of the graphic novel went to print.

  I really enjoyed this film and my only criticism is that, although incredibly true to the graphic novels, the first half an hour of the film seems to drag along quite slowly and takes a while to get to the point. Other than that, the tagline doesnt lie. It's an epic of epic epicness.

 Rating: 4/5

Max