Posted on: Friday, August 20th, 2010
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Review
Scott Pilgrim is an amazing film that any self respecting geek, nerd or video game lover should go out and see immediately. It has interesting well developed characters, an amazing visual flair, funny jokes, and 7 of the best action scenes I’ve seen outside of a kung fu flick! With the exception of the first few minutes and some missteps this is a near flawless adaption of an original story.
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What you’ll Like:
• Amazing Visual eye candy combined with a subtle deeper message.
• Nails translating a video game feel to the big screen, more so that actual video game based movies!
• The fight choreography is flawless – THIS is how fight scenes should be filmed.
• Self-aware of its own silliness and runs with it!
• Best Part: Every single fight scene.
What you’ll Hate:
• The first 30 minutes are almost unbearable.
• Dialogue oddly falls flat on occasion with lame jokes and visual gags.
• Scott is a rude inconsiderate jerk and Ramona is undeserving but that’s kinda the point – still a bit unsatisfying.
• Worst Part: All the extremely annoying jump cuts.
Final Verdict:
9/10
Excellent!
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158 thoughts on “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Review”
Joe seems really shallow and stupid here.. I mean seriously, the first 30 minutes were GREAT! And they were IMPORTANT for the rest of it to make sense. He expected him just to fight for a random girl that has NOTHING to do with anything?
“Son, I am disapoint”
One of my favorite Movie with Kickass
great movie.
i just saw this on tv, and i agree wit u joe, especially about Knives. for me she’s cute, sweet and care more about scott than Ramona. except the unsatisfying ending, it’s really good movie.
They did have an ending where he ends up with knives but when they showed it to the test audience they hated it
i didnt like this movie at all.. just didnt. somthing wrong with me? what am i missing ?!?
Angry Joe doesn’t find Mary Elizabeth Winstead attractive? WHAT?
i still haven’t seen this movie yet.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? GO SEE IT RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!!!!!!
SHIT
I agree on everything… the 1st half felt as if it was writen by an extream stoner Scot, who just filmed everything he saw after waking up from his stoner black outs, and not things he wrote down remmebering/dreaming while/after being high of his ass, which seems to be the second half of the movie, that was indeed EPIC
Me watching this film:
wtf
wtf
wtf
Holy Shit this is amazing.
Trying to make my mate watch it but i know he wont unless he makes it to the first fight. WATCH THE DVD I GOT YOU DAVE!!!! DO IT
What were your thoughts on the Scott Pilgrim game?
there are actualy only 6 fight scenes the 5 and 6 ex are twins but the fight was awesome!
I agree that he should have ended up with Knives!!
Personally, I would disagree with you on some points.
Nothing about the first 30 minutes ever bothered me. I was in it for the quirky, madcap humor as opposed to the fight scenes, so it was a real pleasure to watch all of those personalities just bouncing off each other. Of course, it’s possible that my recollection of it is being colored by the comics, where the early interactions are much more pronounced.
Speaking of the comics, having read them I’m inclined to point out that the comics do an infinitely better job of characterizing Ramona and making it seem more like she and Scott would be a good couple. In the movie, of course, they never really do much to make it seem like they have much in common, or really any kind of chemistry. In the comics, we actually get to see their relationship progress over time, and the reasons that they’re together are made much more apparent.
It also stands to mention that the “picking the wrong one” message from the movie never appears in the comic. Partly, this is because the Ramona from the comic wouldn’t have been such an obviously bad choice for Scott, but also it’s because Knives from the comic has grown up and moved on by the end of the story, having gotten over her infatuation with Scott and realized what a shitty boyfriend he was to her.
Sorry to carry on like that, but I felt it was worth nothing.
Fucktastic!
is it just me or does anyone else wish that some of the endings from the game were cannon?
i would also like to say for those of you who will give me crap for this yes i do relize this is the movie and not the game i just haven’t seen a review for the game.
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i loved this movie. the only good videogame based movie i have EVER seen
The game is actually based on a graphic novel you know…
Superfaboulasticepicgasmic! Yeah!
I love both The Expendables and Scott Pilgrim….and I’m a girl. I’m not suprised that 40% were female, a movie filled with muscular macho men; but thats not why I love The Expendables. I love it because:
>:D ….. all at once
1. Explosions
2. Brutal combat
3. Terry Crews + AA-12 = my face going —–> *_*
4. Jason’s knife skills
5. Arnold Cameo
And I can’t list all of the reasons because I’d be sitting here forever.
I also LOVE Scott Pilgrim because:
1. Interesing characters (A part from Ramona)
2. Feast for my eyes.
3. Fight scenes not as brutal as The Expendables but just as good.
And basically every reason Joe listed in the video!
i saw a bed scene so i would say go with romona
i agree. knives was fukin cute. ramona was ehh. but scott’s ex was od sexy
The pacing and definitely the characters are way better in the books, probably the only character that lives up to the books is wallace wells. I also think that this movie really fails because they attempted to condense 6 somewhat large graphic novels into a not so long movie which is why I believe that the beginning lacks so much. Good movie, but I feel it didn’t live up to the graphic novels mainly because the personality of the characters in the movie suck compared to the ones in the graphic novels.
This is a cheesy comment but, You don’t really just look at a girl for how they look but more of their personality and how they treat yu. Yeah looks matter some, but personality is what strikes me the most. thts why i like my girlfriend. Sure not everyone thinks shes super sexy but its who she which is what is happy to me
i thought people who review things are bribed or threatened to give it a good score, but for once, they wernt for this movie, or some one bribed them to give this move a bad rating,
corprate commando: ” THIS IS NOT EXEPTIBLE!!! THIS GAME IS FROM MY COMPETETOIRS!!! GIVE THIS MOVIE A LOW SCORE!!!”
review guy:”But..-”
corprate commando: “I DONT CARE!!!”
(sorry for typeos, this comp board is sensitive…)
i might actually go see the movie now, i dismissed it because i HATE the guy playin the lead role, while i love the guy who plays johnny in fantastic 4 (eventhough it was a shit movie) and the latest superman i just cant stand the guy playing scott.
Who could consider this piece of shit a movie ?!?!?! It`s worst than The Last Airbender, Resident Evil Afterlife or The Other Guys. Nothing Bad Ass about it. Sorry Joe, but it sucked 100% and beyond !!! I actually threw up 4 times during the movie. TERRIBLE, ANNOYING and STUPID !!!!!! I can only recommend this movie to people who want their IQ to start dropping considerably. There is no 180 turn in the quality after the first 30 minutes. There is absolutely nu improvement whatsoever from the first 5 minutes of the movie. In fact it only gets WORST. I like movies and i`ve viewed allot of them at home or in cinemas, but this is not a movie. It`s a BAD JOKE !!!!! The ONLY reason i wanted to see it, was YOUR Bad Ass Award from your review. If it was an EPIC FAILURE, a 1/10, it would still be overrated. Remember this: “It`s BROKEN” ??? Be honest Joe !!! This was the only review you`ve done WRONG.
Umm, I wonder why Joe didn’t like the first 30 minutes. The effects like the pee bar was I think something like a preview of things to come. The jokes are pretty good in the beginning and they kept getting better.
And since Joe likes Aliens so much, there is an Alien arcade when Scott is playing Ninja Ninja Revolution. Wonder if he noticed that. Also, if Joe didn’t like the ending, there is an alternate one on the DVD. Sure he will like that one.
I actually had the pleasure of attending a lecture on my course that was guest lectured by Andy (forgot the second name) who worked on some of the special effects for thsi film!
the movie was terrible!! theres nothong good in this movie at all.. it wasn’t funny, characters were weak as hell (maybe accept the vegan police). cmon how anybody could like this movie, fights arent cool at all and the game references didn’t make them better at all. stupid movie – lost of time. more funny was terrible airbender because it was such a crap!!
I have to agree with the last part you said, the message was really off, but I noticed it.
)
And the ending was exactly what I wanted, idk what kind of people u think would watch this movie
And well every single person I invited to go watch the movie with me (the 5 times I went
Liked the movie,
I am a gamer, and I don’t read comics, and the style of the movie in the begining was pretty badass
Reminded me of a comic (later on i found out this was based off a comic)
I have to disagree with the first 30 minutes.
The first 30 minutes were badass, specially the Sex Bob Ombs.
And it did go from an good movie, to an epic automatic favorite.
I think this movie deserved moar frum u sir!
The jump cuts are there to signify how out of it Scott really is, how much he just lets the world go by him. The “random words” on screen are basically the movie embracing the fact that it’s based on a comic book and decides to just run with a surreal premise.
*Shrugs*
But that’s just me. I loved every minute of this movie. Even the first 30 minutes of it.
I was already a huge fanboy of the graphic novels, and I went and saw Scott Pilgrim in theaters.
4 times.
I never would have thought about watching this until I saw your review. You’ve had some good input on other movies so I think I’ll check this one out.