The cast clearly had a lot of fun making this and I too had a lot of fun watching it

Rating: 7/10 (5 September 2014)

Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is a fairly regular guy who lives with his gay friend Wallace (Kieran Culkin). Scott has dreams of hitting the big time with his band. He's a 22 year old man who's in a relationship with a 17 year old Chinese catholic girl (much to the dismay of his friends). Scott's world turns on its head when he meets the girl of his dreams (literally) when he meets Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) who has moved from New York to Toronto and works as a delivery girl for Amazon. Scott becomes obsessed with Ramona and a relationship begins to blossom between Scott and Ramona. However, Scott quickly learns that Ramona's love comes at a high price and finds that he must defeat her seven deadly exes in order to have the privilege of 'dating' her. Will he be successful?
The thing I really liked about this film is that it's a lot of fun, but it's also really clever as well. A lot of humour comes from parody, but the way that this film creates the parody is wonderfully inventive. The writers could have been lazy and spoofed a lot of films which if done right could have been funny, but not terribly original. With Scott Pilgrim vs the world it combines two great things - originality and humour. The laughter track between Scott and Wallace was clearly a parody of sitcoms (it is used in British sitcoms, but I believe that it's far more common in the US). The battle sequence where Scott is battling the evil ex that is a Hollywood actor and then ends up battling a load of stunt doubles which was very clever and very funny. The genre of Computer Games are the biggest focus for parody and that is where the most fun can be found in this film. I'm sure that there were countless others, but these are just a few that have come off the top of my head.
The film is also very stylish and the visuals are great; the battle sequences are also very impressive and again a few surprises are thrown in to hold the audiences attention - these surprises are funny and they also help to keep things fresh and unpredictable.
Acting wise we'll start with Michael Cera; I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a big fan of him and haven't always found him that appealing in other films that I've seen him in, but I actually thought he was good in this film and wasn't annoying for once. I wish the same could be said of Ellen Wong, but for the most part she really got on my nerves. I think Alison Pill gave one of the best performances as Scott's ex Kim. Her moody teenage character was probably the most believable and she gave a nice understated performance.
The films throws in some moralising towards the end, but Wright and co even manage to make the moralising aspects of the film to be funny and clever - such as Scott's 'self respect' moment at the end. Whilst I don't believe that this is the 'masterpiece' that many claim it to be it is a film that made me laugh several times and it was a film that I found to be wickedly clever on many occasions. Great fun!