Vs The World

There is something oddly Shakespearian about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
Seven exes.
One 22 year old.
A Chinese schoolgirl.
An indie band.
A girl with five colours in her hair – interchangeable over nominally regular periods of time.
Everyone is in love with everyone.
It’s quite often snowing.

There’s no iambic pentameter so the comparisons may feel far-flung but if Will was writing now you know the advent of video game would mean he would’ve headed down the Scott Pilgrim/World avenue at some juncture.

Relationships in movies are pretty much the point of movies. Even putting that down on paper is consummately stupid because films without some kind of person on person interaction... March of the Penguins... are not real films. Avatar, the greatest grossing 3D pants party ever was effectively just a series of madly complicated, tech heavy booty calls.

Michael Cera redresses his geek in love role for Scott Pilgrim. Edgar Wright (The Nick and Simon Party General) directs, writes and moves away from the flipper pad style of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz scene development and instead indulges his inner geek with a movie long super Mario style challenge for bass playing Pilgrim. As he dreams about then meets the lady of his (Suz from As If) dreams Pilgrim discovers – whilst performing at Battle Of The Bands – that he will encounter each of the magical Romana Flowers’ (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) seven exes. Each ‘x’ presents another challenge – Wright and Bacall pondering the way in which our moves inform how we build relationships.

The advent of super cool big screen geek youngsters, most of whom made their big screen debut in a Judd Apatow movie – you know which one – is no accident. We all like to pretend we’re a little bit geek. How many people do you know that showed off how they (actually) saw Shaun of the Dead (yeah) in the cinema and drove home like Nick Frost on acid? There’s that consummate aspect of our super busy over exhausting moan-o-meters that mean living in a playstation seems cool. Meeting a girl with coloured hair does give reason to fighting seven strangers to the death, does it not? Being a big fan of hair was not the only reason for enjoying Scott Pilgrim vs but the constant references to it were super. Go see. Ponder living in a video game, and being in love.