Just one word for you... Epic.

Rating: 9/10 (30 August 2010)

Having never been aware of the Scott Pilgrim comic, I went into this film with no particular expectations. I was aware, from the trailers, that this was to be no ordinary teen rom-com.
And boy, was I swept away by what I discovered. For anybody who ever fantasised a life in a video game, or imagined their own mundane life retold in a comic book, then this is pure fantasy. Scott Pilgrim, the man, is a 22 year old slacker and bass player in "Sex Bob-Omb". He fall for Ramona Flowers, new girl in town and Amazon delivery girl, who appears in dreams as a result of using subspace highways through his brain... sorry, what? Yeah, you heard me. And if that's not weird enough for you - and certainly something you wouldn't see in Dawson's Creek - then how about Ramona's League of Evil Exes, whom our hero has to defeat before he can win her affections?
This film is a mix of genres, so really only Edgar Wright was the man to direct, and he does it brilliantly, injecting all the visual flair he demonstrated in Spaced over a decade ago, to bring Scott and his world to life, in a dazzling array of breathtaking fights, special effects and razor sharp wit.
As I mentioned before, it's pure fantasy, so any notion you may have of keeping it real, you may want to leave outside the theatre, because you won't need it here. The fights - and there are plenty - are the stuff of pure fanboy dreams. Girls fighting with ENORMOUS hammers, 64 hit combos in mid-air, or flaming swords coming from nowhere, all brought to the screen with frenetic editing and the best soundtrack heard all year; all the while punctuated with visual and audio references to video games, which ties a bow on this marvel of a film.
The characters are superbly horrible to each other, the story is insane but always strangely familiar, and the action is incredible.
And there are so many "WTF" moments in this film.
In a word - Epic.