Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim Vs The World is a great many things. It is a love story for the comic book age. It is the story of a slacker forced to grow up. It is a kick ass fight spectacle. It is a nostalgic glance back on the golden age of eight bit video games. It is a blazing soundtrack brought to vivid life on screen. It is a coming out party for a cadre of young stars. It is arguably the most unusual and unlikely big studio film since The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension. It is director Wright's chance to prove himself as a formidable talent all on his own, removed from the comfortable environs of the UK, his own original source material and his cozy working partnership with Shaun of the Dead and The Hot Fuzz collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. But, most of all, it is one of the greatest graphic novel adaptations ever to hit the screen, an absolute blast from start to finish, a film that sets the bar for itself almost impossibly high and then hits every single mark along the way.
For those unfamiliar with the source material, here's the core of the story. Scott Pilgrim is a young man in his early twenties. He lives in Toronto. He is perpetually unemployed, scraping by largely thanks to the goodwill of his gay roommate Wallace with whom he shares a bed in a platonic manner. He is unmotivated and self absorbed, though in a mostly charming rather than obnoxious way. He plays bass in a middling band called Sex Bob-omb and is still getting over the break up of the only serious relationship he has had in his life a year before, the girl he thought was the one ditching him when her own band became a success. To help get over this relationship he has started dating a seventeen year old, Chinese high school girl named Knives Chau. This relationship works because it is non-threatening. But then Scott meets the beautiful and aloof Ramona Flowers, a girl from New York moved to Toronto to get away from a bad relationship of her own and Scott is immediately smitten. Never mind Knives - but don't tell her about it either, because that would be too hard - Scott must have Ramona. Too bad she has a League of Seven Evil Exes who any prospective new boyfriend must fight and defeat to have a chance with her.
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