The Minority Report - "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" (2010)

“That's it! You cocky cock! You'll pay for your crimes against humanity!”
Fantastic, highly-anticipated, breathtaking visuals—need I say more? I actually saw the trailer to this movie about 6 months before the movie came out (as I usually do…it kind of sucks) and I had been awaiting it ever since. What caught my attention was the actual filming. The movie looked like it was going to be a cross between a comic book and a video game. I had no idea how correct I was. I watched this movie with V-Dawg and we both fought over who would write this review because we enjoyed it so much. After that, I watched it 2 more times for good measure, something I rarely do with movies. Usually they aren’t worth revisiting until a while later, but this one was too much of a good time to pass up.

The basic premise of the story is that there is a guy by the name of Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera), who is pretty much your average guy who’s in a band, has a high school girlfriend (even though he’s already into his 20’s), and lives in a pseudo comic book/video game-like world. All is going well in his life until he sees Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). She is perhaps the quirkiest girl anyone will ever see, and he falls in love with her instantly. The cost of his attraction to her? He must defeat her seven evil exes to stake a claim on her heart. In what proceeds like a live-action comic strip, he faces each of them as the movie gets closer and closer to comic book fiction, quickly learning who he is, who she is, and how to break up with a high schooler.

The movie really impressed me because it managed to be a really honest comedy. Some of the dialogue was purposefully dumb and coated in bad puns because of the movie’s attempt at imitating a comic strip. Also, many songs and sequences in the movie are references to different videogames from different times, so a certain geek knowledge base is a must for one to fully enjoy the movie. Apart from that, nothing brings more joy to my heart than seeing intensely colored lightning bolts come out of a punch to the face, the words “riiiiiiiing” appear on screen and vanish as they trail to the phone, or the letters K.O. appear when Scott beats one of his opponents. Overall, the movie is a sight to behold simply because of its great laughs, amazing sequences, and stunning visual cinematography and special effects. It is definitely not like watching paint dry on a comic book rendition of a classic, 8-bit video game.

By Kulguy