Awesome! The one word that comes close to describing how I felt about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World when I came out of the advanced screening a couple weeks ago. I’m not going to spoil anything but I’ll merely say that the film works on so many levels. It works as a comic book film. It works as a romcom. It works as a martial arts action film. It works as a video game film that’s not actually based on a video game. The music was pitch perfect. Even with a fairly large ensemble cast, the acting was top notch with several outstanding performances coming from the supporting cast. Edgar Wright’s directing was stellar with many inventive sequences and transitions that surprised and delighted. Compared to the books, many scenes were trimmed but it made for a more streamlined story. It’s definitely a generational film with many pop culture references and the sad thing is that it didn’t do as well as expected at the box office on opening weekend but will hopefully develop a following as time goes on.
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August 18, 2010 at 7:32 am
browsermetrics
I had to overcome the urge to hate it because it didn’t follow the book, but I thought it was great, too. You could actually see where it had to make up the rest of the story because the comic book hadn’t come to that point yet in its story when the film was in production. I wonder which influenced which? Did O’Malley tell Wright or vice versa? I would’ve liked to have seen the Ramona-centric aspects of the story fleshed out like O’Malley did later in the books.
I thought it had the best action/fight sequences this summer.