Review of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) by Armando P — 26 Mar 2017

Scott Pilgrim is without a doubt one of the funniest, most spot on comicbook adaptations. Almost everything mirrors it's graphic novel series counterparts perfectly, aside from a few major differences in order to keep the flow of the story going.

It's funny, charming, inventive, and by viewing cliches from other angles, it is drastically different from everything else by being fairly similar. Michael Cera plays a charismatic lead as Scott Pilgrim, the loveable loser (who has been made to seem a lot more of a bad person than he was in the comics) who does onscreen wonders alongside Mary Elizabeth-Winstead's Ramona Flowers.

Both breathe fanatical life into the characters, looking just like Brian Lee O'Malley's drawings, and with Edgar Wright in the director's chair, style is put before substance, and wow, does the style carry the film where it's lacking plot can't.

It's got heart, humor, stellar performances from young actors and a razor sharp wit. Coming from a comicbook nerd and cinema nerd, this makes my see it before you die list.