I'll start by saying Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is alright. This film tends to get over-hyped by those who watched it, possibly as a reaction to all those who didn't and damned this movie to box office failure. This film is not awesome or ground breaking. It is just okay.
It took a while for me to get into the movie. The film's use of comic book imagery (accompanying sound effects with actual words like "knock knock" etc.) is often kind of annoying and doesn't save the more feeble jokes. An example of this would be some recurring gag in which the drummer keeps shooting herself with her finger. The word "bang" illustrates this action everytime. Despite the bad start, the momentum picks up after the first act and the jokes get better. The fights are energetic, diverse and colourful. The movie does a good job of taking people who clearly look as though they have no martial arts expertise and makes them into plausible on-screen warriors. Their odd personalities and ridiculous, videogame-esque dialogue makes them the scene stealers of the show. I particularly liked the defeat of boyfriend #3 (a psychic vegan), though they missed a perfect opportunity to reference The Princess Bride.
Because the story focuses around a band, we inevitably get two things: plenty of on-screen performance and the story of the band's struggle for success. I didn't care for either (I have no taste for modern Indy music) and found both to be a fairly annoying distraction from the far more interesting story of romance and video-game bosses. Speaking of the romance, I wasn't entirely convinced by the romance between Ramona and Scott. It was shallow, we never really get to grips with Ramona, and the idea that Scott is a "lady Killer" is hard to buy when he is so awkward around women.
Scott Pilgrim is fine rental, but it is not some kind of masterpiece of cinema. To those reluctant to see it (like I was), I recommend seeing it as you might be missing out. Just don't have your expectations set too high.
Takes some getting used to
I'll start by saying Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is alright. This film tends to get over-hyped by those who watched it, possibly as a reaction to all those who didn't and damned this movie to box office failure. This film is not awesome or ground breaking. It is just okay.
It took a while for me to get into the movie. The film's use of comic book imagery (accompanying sound effects with actual words like "knock knock" etc.) is often kind of annoying and doesn't save the more feeble jokes. An example of this would be some recurring gag in which the drummer keeps shooting herself with her finger. The word "bang" illustrates this action everytime. Despite the bad start, the momentum picks up after the first act and the jokes get better. The fights are energetic, diverse and colourful. The movie does a good job of taking people who clearly look as though they have no martial arts expertise and makes them into plausible on-screen warriors. Their odd personalities and ridiculous, videogame-esque dialogue makes them the scene stealers of the show. I particularly liked the defeat of boyfriend #3 (a psychic vegan), though they missed a perfect opportunity to reference The Princess Bride.
Because the story focuses around a band, we inevitably get two things: plenty of on-screen performance and the story of the band's struggle for success. I didn't care for either (I have no taste for modern Indy music) and found both to be a fairly annoying distraction from the far more interesting story of romance and video-game bosses. Speaking of the romance, I wasn't entirely convinced by the romance between Ramona and Scott. It was shallow, we never really get to grips with Ramona, and the idea that Scott is a "lady Killer" is hard to buy when he is so awkward around women.
Scott Pilgrim is fine rental, but it is not some kind of masterpiece of cinema. To those reluctant to see it (like I was), I recommend seeing it as you might be missing out. Just don't have your expectations set too high.