Annoying, loud and overblown. It's great

Rating: Null/10 (15 August 2011)

There is a lot of noise in this one and it works great. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is one of these teen fantasy movies that the director, Edgar Wright specialises in at the moment.
In 2007, the delightful Hot Fuzz was released, a movie that I enjoyed enormously, but this is the net, so let me totally nerd out and find all the faults with both films. These are fantasies, folks. Nothing more, and Wright makes wet dreams put on film and not those insightful character studies, like one of last years greatest, The Social Network. Stay connected for that commentary.
The characters in here are purely one-dimensional. You don't feel like they evolved at all and yet, I enjoyed them. Ramona Flowers is the key character and she is not that much different than Robot from Lost in Space. She is almost completely devoid of any kind of personality and because of that, the ending puzzles me immensely. Still, she looks nice.
The character of Knives is brilliantly played by Ellen Wong. I like the fact that her race is not an issue as in many, many, many Hollywood films. It seems that that's the only race that it's okay to make fun of somehow. She is a weirdo, though, but not because of her race.
The plot about the evil exes is of course ridiculous like most comic book to movie adaptations, and the fight sequences does drag on a little bit, but overall, this is entertainment at high value and not much more.