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A Epic You Wouldn't Mind Seeing Over and Over
PostedAugust 13, 2010
DStone39
from San Diego, CA
I was one of the lucky few that managed to get into the Comic Con premiere showings of Scott Pilgrim, but you better believe it when I was first to order tickets for the midnight showing.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is probably one of the most different movies you will ever see. With all of it's videogame references and special effects, your head is liking to be spinning by the end of the movie with all the flashing lights.
That being said, Scott Pilgrim is based on a Graphic Novel series by Byran Lee O'Malley, which in turn does stay very faithful for in the span of about a 2 hour feature film. However, with this limitation, you don't quite see the true personalities of secondary characters like Kim Pine, the drummer in Scott's band, or characters that have been completely removed due to time limitation.
Another comparison is a year-long epic in the books has been condense to maybe a month tops. (with Ramona changing her hair every week and a half...) The true relationship and deep feelings between Ramona and Scott from the series seem more shallow and obsessive in the movie, with Ramona only being with Scott because he's nice and Scott getting obsessed due to a freak-American ninja-like delivery highway (dubbed Subspace) going right through Scott's dreams.
However, despite the limitations, Scott Pilgrim delivers as an epic movie that does stay true to the original content with adding well needed changes for a theatrical release. The music will have you hooked and wanting to buy the soundtrack, because of the featured bands that take their name from videogames like Sex Bob-omb and The Clash at Demonhead, which are really songs written by actual bands Beck and Metric respectively. The fighting scenes, that almost seem like musical with the way fights spontaneously break out, are extremely well done and you cannot help to smile when a girl like Ramona is wielding a sledgehammer (that does +2 damage to girls </videogame>) that probably weighs more than Scott to fight one of her own ex's.
The jokes are somewhat hit and miss with most being cheesy one-liners, but what else can you expecting from a movie based on a comic book series. It's meant to be cheesy. It's meant to attract the sort of crowd that would rather play The Legend of Zelda than leave the house on a Friday night. It's meant to be a fun movie that through the power-up bonuses and interspersed drawn-out interludes at places, an interactive comic-book come to life.
As it says on the Scott Pilgrim poster, this is an 'epic of epic epicness,' and I believe that this epic movie will have you seeing it more than once, if only to try to catch some new pop-up that you might have missed or a quote that got easily missed.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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