Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Wow, what did I just witness? This movie is totally insane, too crazy for words. Here’s the rub: “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” is about a kid in a band in Toronto who falls in love with a girl and must fight all her ex’s in order to be with her. But the movie is totally surreal. Nothing about it is actually grounded in reality, unless you take it as a metaphor for relationships. Like how when you start dating someone you have to undo all the damage done to them by their previous boyfriends or girlfriends. But in this movie is taken at face value, there is literally hand to hand combat; it’s not an internal struggle. It presents itself entirely up front; he actually fights all of her ex’s. And all of the fights are reminiscent of fighting video games from the 90s.

I guess you could call this a romantic comedy, but I would be remiss to use that label because almost every film is given that label and achieves almost no comedy or romance. This film is full of gags and funny lines. But in general it’s just an overwhelming visual experience. It’s full of great pop culture imagery, as well as just great looking effects. This movie is more of an event than “Avatar,” and its cooler to look at and a more interesting story. This movie isn’t perfect however, so what’s wrong with it? For starters the whole movie revolves around Scott Pilgrim falling in love with this girl, Ramona. She is supposedly so cool and beautiful and charming that he just can’t let her get away. I didn’t get that though. There was nothing particularly special about Ramona. She didn’t seem to have any personality what so ever. It was like he fell in love with a blank slate with a lot of baggage. The next thing wrong with the film is that there are seven ex’s… SEVEN! By number four its like, okay I get it, enough already. I understand that this movie was based on a comic book and they wanted to stay truthful to the source material, but come on man cut it down to five. It’s because of this that the movie drags on and gets kind of slow and boring at times, even though they really did a good job of making each fight different.

This is a movie I really can’t wait to see again on TV someday. It’s destined to be a classic. Like the “Back to the Future” for wannabe hipsters. But it has been a couple weeks since this movie came out, and if memory serves me correctly it was never number one. So why didn’t people go see it? It’s easily the most imaginative and original movie to come out in a long, LONG time. Maybe people were to afraid of something new, which is sad because it just proves the studios are right and they will keep making the same five movies over and over and over again. Good job movie goers, you screwed us all. You can redeem yourself by buying a ticket and seeing this movie.