Visually great and innovative but boring as overall entertainment...

Rating: 6/10 (30 October 2010)

Is this movie overrated? Hell Yeah (Kbowww). Scott Pilgrim vs. The World follows the story of ... Scott (Michael Cera), a typical nerd that lacks presence in society and doesn't know how to really connect with people. After a break-up (here's the cliché) he falls under a rock and has a hard time finding himself. Being part of a band he tries to gain success and with that probably the notoriety and his personal revenge on his own frustrations. Things get complicated when he meets this girl, Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) which is a hippie copy-cat of Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, at least that's who she reminded me of. "Of course" in order for Scott to get more dates from her he needs to defeat the League of Ex-es which contains all her 7 (seven) ex-es. The story is pretty much you know, the typical clicheic, nerdy type of storytelling, which really gets me bored at times. Some scenes succeed to be funny but many of them just fail. The dialogue is pretty good but I just felt it dragged on nothing at times. Some lines were there just to add a couple of useless minutes. What I found attractive in this movie was the editing and the visual effects which were amazing done. Obviously a lot of passion had been put in the visual aspect of this movie and all this gaming influences really did work on me and for that I will not bash this movie as being a failure but there's nothing there, not even the visuals, that could handle the important gasps in the script.
Besides the dully and cheesy narrative aspect of the movie, the casting of Michael Cera was kind of obvious since he's the guy that always gets chosen to play the nerd/virgin guy and I did not got thrilled about it. You know why? Because I'm tired of Cera being the same guy in every movie. It's just boring to me and I don't get all the hype behind this Cera guy. He only portrays the same character over and over again. Few movies that I have watched had a slight different Cera but in 90% of them he's just the same and that to me is boring and old. Nothing new or fresh to keep me interested in him as an actor. If this would have been one of Cera's first movies then I would have probably liked his impersonation but since it's not... I just felt I was being cheated. Everything else was on point but just above average...
The technical aspect was I think the best part of this movie. Cinematography, editing and visual effects, all, were handled well and delivered a bad story in a great way and for that you must give credit for the passion they've put in the visual style of the movie. With all that though I don't recommend Scott Pilgrim vs. The World as a good movie because to me it isn't... It's just a movie you could see if you're a Cera fan or you didn't saw too many Cera movies... It's not that much fun neither interesting enough... People who compare this to Kick-Ass make me laugh but then again... it's just my personal opinion... This is just a visually great and innovative but boring as overall entertainment...