Quirky comic comedy

Rating: 7/10 (8 March 2014)

Rating-7/10
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is a fun comic book action film with bags of great fights, weapons and quirky costumes meaning it is truly like reading a comic. The comedy is fast and so are the sequences as well making my opinion on this film, a just about good one, it is not all plain sailing though and here is what I thought about Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
The story is very fast and all together the fighting is solidly fun but also has a more serious side as Michael Cera in the lead role has to deal with Romance on one side, and all her ex's on the other making for a rollicking action film. The story moves a long nicely and by the end you do feel a certain amount for the characters within who constantly support Cera and make you feel like he has his own groupie's, well in a way anyway.
Cera act's it well but I found his portrayal maybe slightly bland and as if he was trying to hard to be much more comical than action like. The cast around him like I say do support him and do a good job in doing so with the character of Knives(played by Ellen Wong) giving off an insanely obsessive performance which made the film even more quirky than it already is. Finally of you enjoy comedy with a dabble of violence similar to say Kick-Ass, then this film is for you for sure.
The fight sequences are great and make the film really awesome with it's comic book style sets and the brilliant effects used, it makes for an interesting but slightly strange battle film. I think the set's as I say are great and serve the film well to make it appeal to it's obvious audience(teenagers) and makes it bright and colourful even amongst all the darker violence in the film, but nothing in this is too dark. Overall the film looks great and for what kind of film this is then it is top grade, budget used was well worth.
I felt the film although good, had some slightly pointless fight scenes and the way some of them(not all of them) were done was cheesy and some were over in a flash. I said about Cera being kind of flat but some of the other cast members such as his love interest Mary Elizabeth Winstead were underused and made to look like they just didn't care about performing in this movie.
I think many film watchers will enjoy this and I can't really see why it wouldn't excite anyone, definitely a must see for comic book fans who also like comic book adapted movies. If you don't enjoy violence then maybe don't watch but there isn't too much blood really, also if you hate teenager centric films then also stay away as this film(even though using actors in there 20's) is completely just made up of this. Overall would recommend to anyone really though and go see for yourself, it will divide opinion I think.
I give it a 7/10 overall meaning a just about good movie and maybe in hindsight could have been given more but also less, I did feel it lacked the comedy genre that it claimed to represent. This is the sort of film where you can sit back with some popcorn, or an air guitar and just enjoy it, I know for a fact someone will love this movies quirkiness and awesome visuals +the little action we get dabbled in too.