Unfunny and annoying! Truly a film for the now generation!

Rating: 1/10 (1 November 2010)

Being quite the fan of director Edgar Wright's previous efforts and being a self confessed gaming nut since 1981 and seeing the rise of the Nintendo generation from the beginning who supposedly this film is directed at. I was really excited and looking forward to spotting all the gaming references that Wright likes to sneak into his films and shows.
It turns out this film is the most shocking example of what passes for entertainment these days. It was terrible, unfunny and extremely annoying.
The film is absolutely tailor made for a generation that has an attention span of about 0.2 seconds. The characters all talk in a similar quickfire style with a camera cut happening almost every half second and the screen is littered with bright coloured, animated fx obviously there to stimulate whatever moronic mind would find this fun.
The characters are horribly accurate examples of today culture with protagonist Scott Pilgrim himself being the archetypal anti hero. Weedy, weak, unsure of himself and sensitive along with the token gay friend and 'rocker' girlfriend.
This is a nerds wet dream. It places a weakling in a world where game rules apply and said weakling proceeds to annihilate 7 rather more burly boyfriends of the pretty girl he is trying to woo. It's what every nerd, outcast and skinny emo boy in the world wishes would happen to them.
I'm insulted that this film wants to the the hero for gamers of the world. I am a massive gamer and absolutely nothing about this film appealed to me at all.
Now to be fair I must give kudos to the visual effects in the film. They are both stylish and impressive and the actual fight choreography itself is excellent. To those that think that this is enough to make a film good, even a comic book action film, must have something seriously wrong with them.
Do yourself a favour, walk out after the 8-bit Universal logo. It's by far the best part of the film!