Scott Pilgrim vs the World

Unleashed imagination is something that wasn’t really seen a lot in movies during 2010’s play-it-safe summer. I know we saw that in “Inception,” but then what? Looking at “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” an amazing refining of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s six-volume graphic novel. Peter Travers said in his review, “Many graybeard critics don’t understand what any sentient being past the age of reason could find of interest in Scott’s plight to win the love of dream girl Ramona Flowers by defeating her seven evil exes in mortal combat.” Even with the amazing Michael Cera bringing Scott to bright human life, the fact is that comic-book movies are Elementary. The haters laugh at the posing of calling a comic book a graphic novel, same thing as saying porn is adult entertainment.

Travers said, “Why should Scott Pilgrim vs. the World break the jinx? Start with director Edgar Wright, who co-wrote the bracing script with Michael Bacall.” The mastery of Edgar Wright is clear to anyone who’s watch the British filmmaker spook the zombie movie in “Shaun of the Dead” and bring every cop cliché in the book in “Hot Fuzz” What true movie lover hasn’t added those films to their DVD collection?

Making Wright in charge on “Scott Pilgrim” is perfect casting. The job needs Scott’s position as in charge of his own life, and his career as a bass guitarist for the garage band Sex Bob-Omb (Beck gave his fabulous songs for the group, which includes Alison Pill, Mark Webber and Johnny Simmons), combine music, comics, manga, anime and video games into a flawless method for storytelling. Travers said, “Wright also intuitively understands that age sets no limits on living inside your head. Look at Don Quixote. We’ve all been there. Plus, fantasy is liberating.” Once Scott wins a fight, his enemy disintegrates into coins. With the help of the talented cinematographer Bill Pope (The Matrix, Spider-Man 2), Wright creates a great realms that is literally a win.

Travers said, “Still, the pyrotechnics would be nothing but shameless showing off if Wright wasn’t equally adept at building characters.” When we first meet Scott, he is a Toronto resident in his twenties with one bad relationship with him – Envy Adams, played by Brie Larson, did something worse than break up with Scott, she became a rock star and really took his life to a toll. Scott has a new crush with the jealous Knives Chau, played by Ellen Wong. Problem is Knives is only 17 means Scott is in deep with his sister, Stacey (Anna Kendrick), and his gay roommate, Wallace Wells (Macaulay Culkin’s younger brother, Kieran Culkin). However, it’s only when Ramona Flowers, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, comes in that Scott knows true passion. Ramona changes boyfriends more often than hair colors, but Scott will win her over, even if it means he’ll die.

The seven exes go from her junior-high crush (Satya Bhabha) to the leader of a gang (Jason Schwartzman, who is downright hilarious) with time for a movie action actor (Chris Evans), a strong vegan (Brandon Routh), twins (Keita and Shota Saito) and even a girl (Mae Whitman). Travers said, “It’s a character pileup, but Wright wrangles the killer cast with the skill of a world-class ringmaster. Scott Pilgrim is a breathless rush of a movie that jumps off the screen, spins your head around and then stealthily works its way into your heart.” No need to think a lot about hugging and learning and everything. Just enjoy these non-messy last moments when two people finally get everything together on who they are to make a genuine, love connection. This is really a change.

You should definitely see this movie because it’s like watching a fighting video game happen on the movie screen. Completely different from watching someone play the fighting video game online or streaming them. This is another great comedy and you should not miss the chance to see this because you will have a great time watching this. I would probably say this is another one my favorite comedies, but I have to think about that.

Alright everyone, next week we’ll be ending off the Cornetto Trilogy. I promise everyone, that trilogy ended off with a bang. You’ll have to know what I mean next week when I finish off “Edgar Wright Month.”