Wonderful imaginative experience.

Rating: 9/10 (25 August 2010)

To start out, I'd like to say I am 21 years of age, grew up playing video games on the NES, and SNES, and still play games to this day. I gave you that information because this movie is very demographically focused. This is not to say it isn't appealing to all ages, but to get the full experience you need to have played Zelda, Street Fighter, and Mario and been entertained by them. The whole film is a satire of high- school type drama and immaturity. Those who claim they didn't like the movie failed to see the satire and humor in the briefly disappointment and the randomness in the dialog. The acting was way over the top but again, it is a satire meant to be cheesy. If you go into this movie to find some serious drama than you are going to be let down. Since this is not a real downfall I will not mark the movie down like many of the negative reviewers. Michael Cera was obviously type-casted wonderfully as always. The part fits him like a glove and I don't wish for one second they cast someone else. Scott Pilgrim is meant to be an unfit, scrawny, and awkward nerd, which is presented beautifully. Wallace (played by Kieran Culkin) is another notable character being the source of many jokes about Cera's character and light, non-offensive gay jokes. Now on to the love interest. Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is perfect for the role. She is quite cute and of course quite "anime esq." with her colorful dyed hair and dangling split bangs. Carrying a fair amount of emotional baggage from her many break-ups with the "Seven Evil Ex's" is aloof and casual about her cautious love interest. She is loved a great deal by Scott and provides good reason to fight the 7 ex's. The fight scenes are visually stimulating and peppered with references to games like Street Fighter II, Super Mario, and Zelda. Such is prevalent in the enemies of Pilgrim (Michael Cera) spurting coins with every hit and erupting into a fountain of metal when defeated granting Scott points. The first enemy also makes reference to a n annoyance many of us gamers had with Street Fighter. The Man sang about fireballs while levitating in the air and didn't stop until he was silenced by a symbol to the face (what I would like to think is a reference to "spamming the hadoken"). People are saying the fight scenes get repetitive but I see little repetition. My favorite fight is the one with Evil Ex #3, Todd Ingram (played by Brandon Routh), who is a super vegan. This battle is the second Scott participates in and the first he tries to mix up the action with (I'd add more detail, but I might spoil it). Effects are amazing. Both audio and video come together to make you feel like you are in some sort of Arcade/ Comic book hybrid. The experience is exclusively unique to this movie. Basically, there is no doubt people who love over the top action, Comic books, and especially video games should go and see this movie.