What if life were a video game?

Rating: 8/10 (22 October 2013)

One of my favorite movies, and one of the better adaptations of a graphic novel I've seen. Although of course they had to condense a lot of stuff, which lead to necessary changes, it felt like the same story. I was worried it would feel limited, because there are things you can do on paper that you can't do in a movie, but they utilized sound and action well, while keeping that comic book feel.
It lost a couple points only because I felt like the ending suffered a bit...I know the comics were still coming out when the movie was being produced, so even the author didn't have the ending perfectly figured out, but I thought Ramona didn't get to be as awesome in this version as she was in the comic. Also, much as I love him, Michael Cera's Scott wasn't the same Scott that was in the book; it worked, and I still liked his interpretation, but it was an odd casting decision.