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Well, at first before I saw it, I wasn't entirely sure of what to expect going into this but Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World shocked me as it shocked critics and the public all around because it is indeed a film of absolute genius! It is a film adaptation of the comic book series Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley. To be honest, I could see it going two ways: either going to be an epic disaster or an epic surprise and it obviously turned out the latter. It has its original side like the humour between boys and girls and teenage hormones and feelings but now there is something new that Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World has come out with. Everyone who was in the cinema with me laughed their heads off at this so that seems pretty convincing that its a funny film as well as a film of top-notch entertainment.
Scott Pilgrim plays in a band which aspires to success. He dates Knives Chau, a high-school girl five years his junior, and he hasn't recovered from being dumped by his former girlfriend, now a success with her own band. When Scott falls for Ramona Flowers, he has trouble breaking up with Knives and tries to romance Ramona. As if juggling two women wasn't enough, Ramona comes with baggage: seven ex-lovers, with each of whom Scott must do battle to the death in order to win Ramona.
The plot is very simple at first but when you read about it on the internet or in a magazine but as you watch it, it gets deeper and deeper and really surprises you! So the basic way of describing the plot is ''Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's ''seven exes'' to win her heart.'' I mean, Michael Cera in another teen comedy was another reason why I wasn't sure of what to expect but even though this is no ordinary teen-comedy, Cera has FINALLY shown that he is no ordinary actor in just teen comedies. I mean, yeah he plays that kind of character but Scott Pilgrim is a guy with a big heart and is very brave so that is what we see out of Michael Cera that we've not seen before. His best performance so far, I think. Mary Elizabeth Winstead was pretty damn hot in this film but she was pretty damn awesome too! Ramona was (perhaps to most of those around her) a pretty dodgy and odd girl to be friends with at first but when she meets Scott, we see a side to her that changes. We also see a big change in Scott as well when he almost instantly falls in love with her. Good performances from Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Ellen Wong and the rest of the cast.
Edgar Wright goes somewhere a tad bit different from his previous and notable works Hot Fuzz and Shaun Of The Dead and makes something that is perfect towards its target audience and was just absolute genius all around! In some scenes, Edgar still filmed scenes which'd be like his traditional style such as very fast shots and sharp music. He has always been a director of entertainment obviously but he has always tried to takes things a little step further to make his films blow away the audiences and creates something new every time. I loved it with the original video game key sequences such as the coins/credit when you defeat an opponent, earning an extra life and earning weapons. The script was, admittedly, at times pretty silly but I mean, in a film like this it was bound to be a little. That didn't jeopardise my liking for the film.
Overall, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is a film that I absolutely adored and has deserved its rightful place as one of the best films of 2010. It is like a video game merged with a film and it is a teen comedy that doesn't just overload us with sex innuendos and kinky soppy stuff but we actually have emotion and a soul in this film which makes it a fantastic success to me and probably to most critics out there. It also goes to a whole new level that none of us had seen before. Edgar Wright is a genius!
9/10
