A good film wasted on a weak lead actor.

Rating: 3/10 (7 May 2011)

This film has a really spectacular supporting cast and what would have been a great premise IF it had been built around a better actor. I doubt even readers of the comic imagined the weedy, sunken-chested, round-shouldered, soprano-voiced Michael Cera as Scott (except possibly in their nightmares).
Honestly, what was Edgar Wright thinking? Cera is the vacuous center around which this film careens and I don't think that was the intention. He's eclipsed by Kieran Culkin (who obviously intends to be Robert Downey Jr.'s successor in acerbically droll performances), Anna Kendrick and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (who looks as if she could crush Cera). A shame, because with a strong lead this could have been a great film, one which actually made money.