The movie never bothers to explain why suddenly Scott can do impossible things like fly or be basically invulnerable, but nevertheless Cera balances the humor and the action quite well. Michael Cera does a great job with his customary likability used wisely but he also shows off a new side of him with his action scenes. This is a fun movie that showcases many good performances especially from the main cast. ![]() Fans of video-games will hear plenty of music cues they might recall such as the Legend of Zelda theme and many references to Super Mario Brothers as well. Even the start of the movie harkens back to the glory days of Nintendo with the Universal logo and music being represented by some 8-bit graphics and cheesy midi music that sets the tone from the beginning. It’s almost a perfect blend of comic book and video-game sensibilities where each sound effect is telegraphed by a onscreen text and comic panel transitions and with a kinetic combat style straight from video-games. Think of it as a musical but instead of characters breaking out into song, they fight instead. I suspect this is where the movie loses a lot of the older audience members. At this point, the movie veers from a slacker romantic comedy into a live action video-game extravaganza. To win Ramona over though, Scott must deal with a lot of issues first including breaking up with Knives, and even more worrying dealing with Ramona’s seven exes that have formed an evil alliance determined to destroy Scott. Being around Romona brings Scott back to life which vastly energizes his music which starts a domino effect on the band who start rocking with new-found passion (with songs written by Beck). The band knows they need work but that changes once Scott means the woman of his dreams Romona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). Scott is biding his time dating a seventeen year old girl named Knives Chou, but he isn’t very serious about her but enjoys her constant fawning over himself and his band Sex Bob-omb. In both the books and the movie, Scott Pilgrim is a young man who drifts through life unfocused mainly because he has never recovered from being dumped when his former girlfriend Envy Adams (Brie Larson) hit the big time with her band Clash at Demonhead. Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s series of graphic novels but doesn’t follow the books exactly as the final volume hadn’t even been written while the movie was filming. As Wright said,”“At one of the focus groups somebody said, ‘It’s like a cross between Superbad, and Kill Bill, and Tron,” he recalls, “and I thought, ‘There’s nothing wrong with that!” Also like those previous films, Scott Pilgrim is a hybrid of multiple genres as it blends a mix of comedy, action, music, and a whole lot of video-game conventions and graphics together to create something original and fun. ![]() Songs from the Apple Music catalog cannot be burned to a CD.The comic-con sensation is now on Blu-ray and although it may not have done great business at the box office, I predict that over time more audiences will discover this movie much like they did director Edgar Wright’s earlier movies Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
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