Pleasing the crowds.

Rating: 3/10 (4 November 2010)

'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' is at first joyous, sweet-spirited, funny and speedy, and looks to be one of 2010's most enjoyable films, but sadly I quickly found all the sounds, music, snappy editing and dialog tiresome and wearying. Michael Cera plays his ordinary self well, and some of the early scenes with him are very good, but his comic timing and charm gets bony as the packed story starts going. In a fantasy world like Scott Pilgrim (Cera) lives he fights for love, a love that seems like a teenage daydream-crush, and it becomes a problem when I as a viewer really can't root for the girl he falls in love with, and so forth their relationship. The story becomes quite confusing throughout, mostly because the characters are one-minded drawn out in single scenes, before quickly adapting and moving along in the adventure. When Scott faces all the evil ex-boyfriends of his love to fight, he challenges them all in battle-scenes which are too long, noisy and alike, and although I know it's just a childlike film full of wonders and crowd-pleasers, I have to question the twisted plot which involves a supposedly right-minded main character who dumps a genuinely sweet girl and treats her harshly, or the mysterious rock girl who entangles Scott into a web of 'my dad is bigger than yours' games, or that messed up ending? This film feels like it was written by some pop-cultural geek who's been sitting too long in his room fantasizing flashy about fighting big battles for this dreamy love that he hasn't totally figured out who actually is.