Alright, so this isn't quite the review I was first looking to do on this Blog, for the longest time I was going to post my thoughts on the movie The Expendables but I just finished seeing Scott Pilgrim Vs the World along with the wife and I thought lets put down my thoughts of the movie while its still fresh in my mind.
Let me just start buy saying that I had zero interest in seeing this movie, none whatsoever, based on what I saw of the movie in the trailers I was expecting the movie to be a steroid jacked version of the original HULK movie which I disliked due to the comic paneling and the need to make it feel more like a comicbook and less like a live action movie. Having said that I went to the movies solely due to my wife working on it, for those that have seen the movie she built the black and white squared flooring in the school and was responsible for alot of the work that was done on the pyramid chair that the final boyfriend is sitting in at the end.
To say that my wife was wanting to see this movie was an understatement and I tried my hardest to get her to go see the movie with someone else, I tried to convince her to see it with one of my friend's wive's but even she didn't want to see it. So after all attempts to get out of it I did the next best thing and be the good husband that goes and supports the wife's work, it also helped that every Saturday, Sunday and Holiday the theatre shows 6 buck movies before noon so to see something that I might not end up liking for 12 bucks was a fair trade off.
I went in really expecting to hate the movie and I found myself honestly liking it the more I saw of it, it was fun, yeah it didn't take itself seriously but with the HULK I was mad because all they needed to make was a live action flick about the HULK and they had to ruin it with having to be too artsy, this movie on the other hand was 10 times more extreme but I accepted all the word balloons and the word RIIIING going across the screen every time the phone rang.
At the end of it I found that I had fun, I didn't need to analize the movie, I didn't need to figure out what the motive of the main character was and whether it followed the proper movie formula because it was just fun. For anyone not quite familiar with the story to sum it up its about an average guy named Scott Pilgrim who learns that he has to battle the 7 deadly ex's of a girl he's just fallen in love with, sound boring? not in the slightest and not once did I look at my watch wondering when this movie was going to end.
The movie seemed to be cast perfectly from top to bottom, granted had I known the source material I might have thought otherwise..who knows, have to say it was nice to see Brandon Routh in the movie as the Vegan powered ex, for how relaxed and confident he was in the movie I thought it was a shame that he couldn't have carried that delivery over to Superman when he was in that trainwreck Superman Returns, I said to my wife a couple of times, gee if Brandon had just done Superman like this with the blown back hair and the confident demeanor maybe Returns might not have sucked as much as it did........yeah I don't think it would have helped either.
I've been getting a real kick out of the Scott Pilgrim vs the World downloadable game on the Playstation and I can now say that I got as much of a kick out of seeing the movie now as playing the game, if you've been on the fence seeing this movie because it looked alittle cheesy in the trailer or simply because you didn't read the source material, all I can to you is this, go into the movie with an open mind and get ready to have a great time, Scott Pilgrim is fun, witty and throws in enough nods to classic video games that you'll find yourself enjoying every minute of it, ohh and did I mention that the main character in the movie isn't necessarily Scott Pilgrim but a little Canadian city called Toronto? that might have helped this Ontario Canada native to love this movie too.
If I can give the movie a rating out of 10, I would probably give Scott Pilgrim vs the World a solid 8, its fun and worth checking it out guys even if you haven't read the graphic novel its based on.
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