Unique

Rating: 9/10 (25 August 2010)

Scott Pilgrim is a 22-year old bass player in a band which has some mild potential. Currently going out with oriental schoolgirl Knives Chau, he encounters the mysterious Ramona Flowers and she agrees to go out with him, only for him to discover that this means he must fight and defeat her seven evil exes.
I loved this weird and wonderful movie, directed by Shaun Of The Dead's Edgar Wright, and starring Michael Cera (playing Scott as his stock character, albeit less of a loser than usual) and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona (and a couple of honorary mentions for Ellen Wong as Knives and Kieran Culkin as flatmate Wallace - both very funny). It doesn't conveniently fit any category. It's not a comedy, although it's very funny. It's not a teen romance, although there's a strong element of that. It's not a superhero movie or a computer game movie, although both of those aspects are well represented (without any explanation, which was another thing I loved about it). And it's not a comics movie, although it is sourced from a comic (sorry, graphic novel) and, again this is clearly a major influence on how it is delivered.
In short, it is that rarity - entirely its own thing, and an absolute delight.
PS I'm 58, so you don't have to be that young to appreciate it, thank you very much all you young ageist whippersnappers!