I wrote the review of the eagerly-anticipated, much-ballyhooed Scott Pilgrim vs. the World for Moving Pictures.
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| Michael Cera, the over-used, angst-ridden star of “Youth of Revolt” and several other twentysomething romantic comedies, shines as the titular character. For the first 15 minutes, Cera brilliantly mumbles his lines, only beginning to fully enunciate and project as Scott’s confidence increases. Surprisingly, he adroitly handles the numerous actions scenes. The lovely Mary Elizabeth Winstead (“Make It Happen”) expertly portrays the conflicted and powerful Ramona. Newcomer Ellen Wong offers a glimpse of a promising future as Knives Chau, Scott’s Canadian-Chinese high school sorta girlfriend. Much as in the original comic, women drive the story, giving this tale a surprising feminist bent. |
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| Seen in a different setting, many of the film’s events and concepts would appear ludicrous and out of place, but within the universe of Scott Pilgrim they achieve a Zen-like existence — they just are. On a date, Ramona and Scott traverse the city using inter-dimensional doorways. The skinny, inept Scott uses martial arts and flight to combat the exes. Then there is the concept of the exes themselves. All of them wield extraordinary powers as members of The League of Evil Exes. Perhaps the first filmmaker to successfully incorporate video game logic within a movie, Wright manages to make the nonsensical commonplace and acceptable. |
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| Not only the best geek romantic comedy ever produced, Wright’s vision of the O’Malley epic features perhaps the finest film adaptation of a graphic novel, matched only by the amazing “Ghost World.” |