Bonkers

Rating: 7/10 (18 March 2019)

It's crazy to think about how many Hollywood stars were in Scott Pilgrim just before they really stepped into their primes as actors. This was a year before Chris Evans played Captain America for the first time, Aubrey Plaza had just begun Parks and Rec, Anna Kendrick was just nominated for an Academy Award that year, Brie Larson hadn't done Room or Short Term 12 yet, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead was finally getting cast in bigger budgeted films. Knowing all of that now, makes going back and watching the film a little bit more fun than it probably should, though it is certainly an entertaining film on its own. That's putting it mildly. For all intents and purposes, Scott Pilgrim is a balls to the wall bonkers comic book adaptation, the kind of film that almost certainly inspired Tim Miller when he adapted Deadpool years later, just purely for its irreverent humor mixed with a heartfelt romance. And much like Deadpool, you either buy into the stylistic choices early on, or you don't. Admittedly, the style does tend to wear off towards the end of it's nearly 2 hour runtime, but I nonetheless had a great time.
7.8/10