Directed by:
Edgar WrightCinematography:
Bill PopeComposer:
Nigel GodrichCast:
Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Ellen Wong, Anna Kendrick, Brandon Routh, Alison Pill, Jason Schwartzman, Johnny Simmons (more)VOD (5)
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Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) has never had a problem getting a girlfriend. It's getting rid of them that proves difficult. From the girl who kicked his heart's ass - and now is back in town - to the teenage distraction he's trying to shake when Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) rollerblades into his world, love hasn't been easy. He soon discovers, however, his new crush has the most unusual baggage of all: a nefarious league of exes controls her love life and will do whatever it takes to eliminate him as a suitor. As Scott gets closer to Ramona, he must face an increasingly vicious rogues' gallery from her past - from infamous skateboarders to vegan rock stars and fearsome identical twins. And if he hopes to win his true love, he must vanquish them all before it really is game over. (Universal Pictures US)
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Unfortunately, it just made me more and more bored... I once tried to read “Scott Pilgrim," but the book seemed pretty useless to me and intended for people about a hundred years younger than me, and I must say that the adaptation is very much faithful in this regard. There are plenty of ideas here, though, because Edgar Wright is a toyer, but the plot didn't interest me at all from about halfway and I felt like the avalanches of all sorts of cool things primarily numbed and suffocated me.
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A story built completely on its head, cool fight scenes, even better editing and Edgar Wright, aka "the guy who made Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz"? Why the hell not? I had a lot of fun and I guess the fact that I've never read the comics and don’t get very excited for computer games, which are paid homage to in a big way, had a lot to do with my experience. Scott Pilgrim is truly a visual treat with an extremely original story coupled with some excellent ideas (the deveganization) that managed to get me properly excited as a viewer, but at the same time with a lot of places and twists that somehow I just couldn't adjust to and their wackiness and pointlessness bothered me. Yet the film does not contradict itself at all, on the contrary, it is clear from the first scenes what direction it will take, but you know, I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere along the way and didn’t find Wright again until the end. I was expecting a lot more, with Pegg and Frost things work clearly better for Wright. 60%
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Scott Pilgrim offers up a deluge of ideas, likable eccentricity and “fight” scenes that are easier to follow than those in most typical action movies. If today’s teenagers loved this more than superficial flicks in the vein of Twilight, the world would be a better place.
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So many corpses and not a drop of blood... I hate Michael Cera, his dumb mug and moronic one-liners bother me, so I had a major problem with Scott Pilgrim. On the other hand, there's Edgar Wright, a playful visual magician who turned this unbelievable nonsense into a special effects orgy full of memories of youthful gaming days. And the action scenes are top notch.
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With this film, it really depends on whether you are willing to accept the rules that apply in Scott Pilgrim's world, where funny words fly through the air or spectacular battles between rivals in love take place. Personally, I failed to submit to these wacky rules, which is why this film felt a little too over-the-top and absurd at times. That it is a very original mix of ideas and sequence of images, there is no doubt. But it just didn't entertain me as much as it should or could have. In short, a wild shower of colour, nice scenes and effects, but all wrapped up in a rather strange story that unfortunately didn't engage me.
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