Just saw Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Anybody wanna geek out with me?
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Fucking awesome. The “young Neil” joke didn’t hit me til later.
AWESOME movie. OK ignore that, pretend it’s a HORRIBLE movie, so that your expectations will be lowered and you’ll end up enjoying it.
Seriously though. I hadn’t read the graphic novels, but I knew the basic premise, so I was looking forward to it. My brother hadn’t heard anything about it so he was of lukewarm anticipation. But he greatly enjoyed the film. Spoilers ahead…
The very beginning is a little wobbly. I wasn’t sure yet whether this movie was going to rock or be mega lame.
I’m thinking, well, these characters are kind of lame.
Then, I’m thinking, well, they cast Cera, maybe they are supposed to be lame.
Eventually I realize, this is a romantic comedy about lame ass losers who still manage to KICK ASS in a “video game” slash “indy comic book” style.
Once I really “got” what it was about (or in what ways it was going to succeed), I was able to fully immerse and enjoy myself.
It definitely works on both the ‘slacker comedy’ and ‘video game kick ass’ levels.
I hear it’s not kicking ass in the box office yet, but hey it’s only FRIGGIN FRIDAY still, and it’s up against the UBERMALE Expendables and UBERFEMALE Eat Pray Love. It probably hasn’t had a chance yet to spread word of mouth, or overcome genre confusion.
“You think you have a future with her?” “You mean, like, with jetpacks”?
I did not read jackdavinci’s post because I haven’t seen the movie yet (nor read the graphic novel; hell, I didn’t even know it was a graphic novel!)
The hubby and I saw previews for this movie when we went to see The A-Team. I thought it looked hilarious, hubby thought it looked completely lame. But then, it’s not his kind of humor.
I am going Tuesday or Wednesday, all by myself, to see it. Looking forward to it, too. I loved Cera in Juno, and he looks awesomely well-suited to the roll of Scott Pilgrim!
I missed the last five minutes…had to hit the bathroom. I held out as long as I could. First time that’s ever happened.
Boy, and this is from someone who withstood The Return of the King. I guess I’m not as young as I used to be. 
Anyway, my only complaint? That you can’t actually pull of a drama with the same kind of over-the-top epicness that this movie had.
An utter delight. I give it Four Skulls—Joe Bob Ranchoth says “check it out.” 
My husband and I are so not the demographic for this, but we enjoyed the hell out of the movie! It’s fun, funny, charming, clever, and, like the even more wonderful Kick-Ass, and the two will make a GREAT double-feature, it’s just very simply a good time. I think maybe curmudgeons won’t like it, but who care what curmudgeons think anyway*?
We have to see it again just because we missed so many spoken lines and text because we were laughing.
As Ranchoth says, an utter delight.
I was giggling like a fool from the opening credits with how they treated the studio logo.
I have to see it a second time. Wright has put so many things in there that I’m sure it will reward repeated viewings.
Is it a movie where the main character is put in many embarrassing situations? I hate feeling embarrassed for a character.
I want a, not necessarily a feel good movie, but something that’s not going to depress me. Is this it?
I know the type of thing you’re talking about, and I dislike it myself.
He may be a twenty-something slacker with a mediocre band, but in the end Scott Pilgrim acquits himself quite admirably.
This movie definitely spoke to those of us who grew up in the 80s and 90s. Nice touch on the remix of The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past track and the fight scenes that were pretty much every fighting game published by Capcom.
I don’t play games and I’m going to be 50 this month, but it was still a very enjoyable movie. I get the distinct impression that the whole thing was filled with game references that flew past me, much like the opera references in the film Prizzi’s Honor.
I sure hope this finds its audience. I saw it and The Expendables, and despite an over-abundance of testosterone in the latter, Scott Pilgrim was a much better action movie.
I really, really want to go play VirtuaFighter for hours now! (It was the only combat game I was any good at… >.<)
I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Edit to add: I predict many Halloween costumes coming out of this, but most predictably the Demon Hipster Chicks. 
Ramona Flowers cosplay is already pretty damn rampant at any comic-con.
I despise those kinds of movies, and I didn’t have that feeling during Scott Pilgrim. He gets beat up a lot, not humiliated.
I liked it well enough, but thought Scott was a self-involved jackass through too much of the film – I especially didn’t like how he treated Knives – so the ending was a little hollow to me. Other than that, though, I liked it.
I wasn’t a big fan of the ending, either. The book had a much more satisfying ending, with Scott realizing he’s not much different from Gideon. “Scott has earned the Power of Understanding!”
Plus, Ramona is the one who ultimately kicks Gideon’s ass.
That said, though, the movie was still awesome. I loved how Ramona was so obviously too cool for Scott. The mix of music and fighting was really well done. Overall, the movie pretty much lived up to my expectations as a great highlight reel of the books.
He gets in a few awkward/embarrassing situations, but mostly due to his own stupid (typical guy) actions.
Mainly, not having the testicular fortitude to actually break off his relationship with Knives before pursuing a relationship with Ramona, and on top of that, managing to double-book a date.
As others said, he does consistently get enough kick-ass moments of his own in throughout the movie to keep it from getting too much.
…well… you know that’s the story. It isn’t about “can Scott beat these evil exes and keep the girl.”… it’s “can Scott grow the eff up and realize that he’s been a dick and have a mature relationship.”
Yeah, don’t go see Dinner For Schmucks.
That was PAINful, seriously.
That doesn’t mean I have to like the character. He realized he was being an ass, but he still improbably got the girl. Both I and the friend I saw it with liked the movie, but not the protagonist. When Knives told him that she was too cool for him, I smiled in agreement.