Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
Directed By: Edgar Wright (Shaun OF The Dead, Hot Fuzz)
Written By: Edgar Wright, Michael Bacall
Produced By: Edgar Wright, Marc Platt, Eric Glitter, Nira Park
Cast: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jason Schwartzman, Kieran Culkin, Ellen Wong, Alison Pill, Mark Webber, Johnny Simmons, Anna Kendrick
Plot: When 23 year old Scott Pilgrim meets delivery girl Ramona Flowers, he falls head over heels for her. Unfortunately, he has a 17 year old chinese girlfriend, Knives Chau. And Ramona has seven evil exes that want to kill Scott.
Scott Pilgrim's script, isn't amazingly engrossing. But it's visual effects are dazzling enough for any Ibiza Rave. However, It is fairly funny, inventive and will capture the younger audience's minds. The film is quite juvenile, and won't really attract an older audience, but for the younger audience it is funny and offbeat. Edgar Wright (Director) has made a fine mash up of a great cast, an average script and brilliant visual effects. The film is quite sweet in places (Scott is willing to fight 7 people to be with Ramona, aww.)and fairly genuine in the fact that Michael Cera is once again in the geeky, individual role he plays so well. However, all the other actors, seemed a little awkward for their roles, they just didn't fit.
It is a new style of film in all fairness, combining video games with cinema, providing geeks with the ultimate geek-a-thon. I was surprised with the amount of in jokes, hipster and pop culture references. The film lacked alot of its humour due to these references, as the majority of audiences didn't seem understand them.
The heights of Wright's previous films, for example Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, are definately not reached here, and the magic of the film was almost lost by the conclusion to the movie. But it kept me entertained, and i did want to know what happened, and I admit, I wanted Scott to get the girl.
Its not a bad film, it's good if there is nothing else to watch, but it isn't an instant classic, maybe it will have a cult following in a few years.
Written By Eammon Jacobs
It is a new style of film in all fairness, combining video games with cinema, providing geeks with the ultimate geek-a-thon. I was surprised with the amount of in jokes, hipster and pop culture references. The film lacked alot of its humour due to these references, as the majority of audiences didn't seem understand them.
The heights of Wright's previous films, for example Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, are definately not reached here, and the magic of the film was almost lost by the conclusion to the movie. But it kept me entertained, and i did want to know what happened, and I admit, I wanted Scott to get the girl.
Its not a bad film, it's good if there is nothing else to watch, but it isn't an instant classic, maybe it will have a cult following in a few years.
Written By Eammon Jacobs
Awesome man, I love that film haha!
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