Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World stars Canada’s Michael Cera who does a subtle stretch in acting style to inch past the terminally virginal alter ego he’s constantly cast to play. Scott Pilgrim is a 23 year old slacker who at least appears to have had some success with women even if the relationships all ended badly. Cera must have been thrilled to be set in his actual home town of Toronto where he’s crashing at the apartment of his gay friend Wallace Wells (Kieran Culkin) and dating Knives Chau (fellow Ontarian Ellen Wong) a seventeen year old high schooler. This is much to the consternation of his sister Stacey (Anna Kendrick) and fellow band mates of the group Sex Bob-omb - a garage band that features drummer Kim Pine (Alison Pill), a resentful ex girlfriend of Scott’s. Scott’s ardour for Knives cools when he meets his actual dream girl Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), an Amazon.ca courier. In order to date Ramona however Scott must defeat her League of Evil Exes that includes Todd Ingram (Brandon Routh) with his almost unbeatable psychic vegan abilities as well as Matthew Patel (Satya Bhabha), Lucas Lee (Chris Evans), Kyle and Ken Katayanagi (Keita & Shota Saito) and Roxy Ritcher (Mae Whitman). Once defeated league members dissolve into a heap of coins (loonies and toonies of course), however the league was assembled by a more challenging foe, Gideon Gordon Graves (Jason Schwartzman) the New York record producer who holds Sex Bob-omb’s future in his hands. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World appears to answer the question “what if video game rules applied to real life”? and with lightning editing and hilarious dialogue may end up indeed capturing the world. This highly anticipated and brilliantly executed film is based on a series of six graphic novels, not all of which are fully explore in the film. That’s a good thing as it could mean we’ll get more.