Scott Pilgrim vs The World
(M), 112 minutes
3.5/5
Was it a video game, was it a comic or was it a movie?
Scott Pilgrim vs The World seems to be a rather bizarre collection of all three but somehow they work together to make a most entertaining movie.
The key to enjoying it
is to not expect the normal to happen, it won't.
But do expect the odd to happen because it will.
It's a simple boy-meets-girl story but the twists come thick and fast.
Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is a Canadian lad looking for a job and playing in a band. With a schoolgirl girlfriend adoring him, he thinks life is pretty sweet. That is until Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) enters his dreams and his life.
She's beautiful, wild and mysterious.
Ramona simply must be his.
But Ramona comes with some rather deadly baggage.
If Scott is going to keep Ramona he must defeat her seven evil ex-partners .
And the ex-partners are evil.
Blessed with various degrees of superpowers, Scott must use all his video game combat skills to survive some spectacular fights.
As his battles continue, he also has to think about his band, his girlfriend and his friends and it all starts to get a bit much. Ramona is special but is she worth all of this?
Just when Scott thinks he is getting somewhere, he faces his greatest opponent - Gideon.
Director and co-writer Edgar Wright has combined humour, action, drama, fung fu fighting and more into one cohesive product.
Scott Pilgrim vs The World is a touch long at just under two hours but I guess it does take a while to see off seven evil ex-es.
Don't go in expecting anything in particular, expect it all. This is fun.
