"You just headbutted my boyfriend so hard he burst."
I like Michael Cera movies just as much as the next. I rally like the dry humor of the kind of awkward, quick witted, quiet after thought comments. I did not know what to expect from this movie with the exception that it was a movie made to be like a video game. I really love he fact that the names would fit perfectly into any video game: Wallace Wells, Knives Chau, Gideon Graves, and Scott Pilgrim.
Scott Pilgrim, played by Michael Cera, is in a band and has just got a new girlfriend, Knives Chau. He Soon there after meets his dream girl Ramona. He quickly falls in love and dreads telling Knives that they need to break up. She continues to stalk him throughout the movie. Soon after meeting Ramona Scott find they if he want to be with her that he was going to have to take care her dirty past. Ramona has baggage in the for of 7 Evil Exes. It is up to Scott to defeat them.
What follow there after are a series of battles that will peak the interest of anyone who is a fan of 1990 video games of the Street Fighter sort. The movie actually is a cross between a video game and a comic book. There are fast shots that are boxed like a comic, including the written out sound effects. As he fights the bad guys there are points that pop up. I thought that it would get annoying, but I actually liked it. The written words did get a bit annoying, but they were never totally in your face, like an old Batman episode.
I was very happy to see some good actors in this film. Chris Evans plays one of the Exes Lucas Lee. Ramona is played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead who was Royal Pain of Sky High. My favorite was Jason Scharztman playing Gideon Graves, the head of the Evil Exes.
I was not to happy with some of the sexual themes in this movie. I found myself torn between liking it and wondering if I should be liking it. I don't think I would let my kids watch it until they were older. It was rated PG-13 for a reason. I do like the whole idea that they brought out. It made me laugh when they would nail the video game ideas, like the coins for defeating the bad guys, and the 1 ups.
6 out of 10
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