Scott Pilgrim vs The World (2010)

I really enjoyed this movie. It's been a while since I have enjoyed a movie in theaters this much.

Scott Pilgrim is your average 20-something lay about. He lives with his roommate Wallace in Toronto and is dating a chinese high school girl named Knives Chow (whom he is dating because a painful breakup he had a year ago). So all is normal in Scott's life until he starts having these weird dreams about a girl with short hair, which isn't so distressing as we're all prone to dreams. But when he sees this girl in the library and discovers that she's real, he begins obsessing over her and can't stop thinking about her. He sees her again at a party and discovers that she works as a delivery girl for amazon, so goes home to order a package. When she delivers it he asks her if she would consider going out on a date with him, and she concedes. When he gets home he receives a mysterious letter that he disregards. Scott is in a band and they are entered in a battle of the bands. When they go up to play their set, the band is interrupted by an attack from a guy who wants to fight Scott. He informs Scott that if he wants to date Ramona Flowers, the mysterious girl, he will first have to defeat her 7 evil exes, of which he is the first.

The movie was presented like it was a video game. There were video game sound effects, special effects that mimicked video game special effects, after he would defeat the exes they would explode into money (when you play a video game you can sometimes loot a boss for money) and at the end of the movie they copied an arcade game they played earlier in the film. Making this movie hugely relatable and enjoyable to anyone who plays video/ computer/ electronic games.

I initially thought Michael Cera was too wimpy to play Scott, as he was way more hyper-active and hilariously spastic in the comic, but he did a pretty good job. There were a lot of small details that you'd have to re-watch the movie to catch (I've only seen it once so I'm sure there are lots that I've missed) but for example when he walks into the club for the final battle there are two people talking about the comic book and the movie. I sense a cult classic.