Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

If someone has watched, read, listened, and recorded plenty of things, and they can also film in such a way that it is perfectly entertaining, then we’ve got nothing to worry about. During the screening, I wanted to chant and cheer loudly, and after it was over, I wanted to go back to the box office and do it all over again. This sort of "style geyser" cannot be absorbed the first time around. This is the second film this year where inventive British filmmaking has made an incredible splash for Hollywood money. (12/10/2010)

A story built completely on its head, cool fight scenes, even better editing and Edgar Wright, aka "the guy who made Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz"? Why the hell not? I had a lot of fun and I guess the fact that I've never read the comics and don’t get very excited for computer games, which are paid homage to in a big way, had a lot to do with my experience. Scott Pilgrim is truly a visual treat with an extremely original story coupled with some excellent ideas (the deveganization) that managed to get me properly excited as a viewer, but at the same time with a lot of places and twists that somehow I just couldn't adjust to and their wackiness and pointlessness bothered me. Yet the film does not contradict itself at all, on the contrary, it is clear from the first scenes what direction it will take, but you know, I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere along the way and didn’t find Wright again until the end. I was expecting a lot more, with Pegg and Frost things work clearly better for Wright. 60% (10/02/2013)

So many corpses and not a drop of blood... I hate Michael Cera, his dumb mug and moronic one-liners bother me, so I had a major problem with Scott Pilgrim. On the other hand, there's Edgar Wright, a playful visual magician who turned this unbelievable nonsense into a special effects orgy full of memories of youthful gaming days. And the action scenes are top notch. (30/06/2011)

There are images that mature over time and there are those that never change. At the time of its creation, I couldn't wait for a movie with punk, rock, a bunch of nice guys playing, and settling scores with ex-partners in a video game style based on comic book themes. I persuaded my friends to go to the cinema and it turned into a nightmare for every local viewer. While the trailers were almost untouched, my friends had a good time and thanked me for the suggestion, I could only scratch my head, and I barely managed to reach an average rating with the irresistible Culkin and a huge amount of visual ideas in mind. I couldn't understand what such a collection of beautiful girls led by Envy and Ramona could or can see in a charisma-less wimp played by Michael Cera. Furthermore, I was disappointed by the repetitive fights, the ethically problematic ending; I just couldn't stop grumbling. Every time someone mentioned Scott in the following years, often in enthusiastic recollection of the unrestrained spectacle full of fun, I wondered why I wasn't meant to fight with Mr. Pilgrim. That's why I met him again after thirteen years - and it turned out exactly the same. I can't stand the main character, I don't understand the role of Knives in the plot, maybe only those beginning stars, who will be much more famous in the future, I perceive even more. I take the rerun as an unexpectedly necessary preparation for an animated series that tells the same story, but fortunately in a completely different way, but with this name, I won't be friends in the live-action format. (06/12/2023)

An incredibly original visual action ride, packed from beginning to end with directorial tweaks, graphics, and situational and verbal humour; every sentence is a joke. Scott Pilgrim is thoroughbred fun that demands a lot of attention from the viewer if they want to get all the jokes. If you ignore the superficial shiny tinsel, what’s left is a straight line that recycles old clichés with unprecedented vigour, relies on the repetition of one motive and takes place in an internally inconsistent and utterly insane world, but nobody cares. That would be very bad, but the protagonist is an ordinary geek who’s probably never come up with anything original (pick-up line), he only cares about one thing (video games) and his world and life cannot be considered deep or complex. The only question left is whether this film can be considered as a portrayal of the world through the eyes of Scott Pilgrim, or whether I’m just looking for things that aren’t there. Either way, it was a lot of fun. 9/10 (22/10/2010)