Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

There are films that mature over time and there are those that never change. When this movie was being made, I couldn't wait for a film based on comic book themes complete with punk, rock, a bunch of appealing actors, and settling scores with your lover's exes in a video game style. I persuaded my friends to go to the cinema and it turned into a nightmare for every viewer from my country. While my friends who had been somewhat put off by the trailers were entertained, and even thanked me for the tip, I could only scratch my head, and I barely managed to justify an average rating based on the irresistible Kieran Culkin and the huge number of visual ideas. I couldn't understand what such a collection of beautiful girls led by Envy and Ramona could or can see in the wimp devoid of charisma as portrayed by Michael Cera. I was also disappointed by how repetitive the fights were and the ethically problematic ending; I just couldn't stop grumbling. Every time someone mentioned Scott Pilgrim in the years that followed, often in enthusiastic recollection of an unbridled spectacle full of fun, I wondered why I wasn't meant to join the fray. That's why I gave it another try thirteen years later – and it turned out exactly the same. I can't stand the main character, I don't understand the role of Knives in the plot, and those stars just getting their start, who would go on to become much more famous in the future, I understand maybe even less. I'll take the rewatching as an unexpectedly necessary preparation for the animated series, which tells the same story but fortunately in a completely different way, but fortunately I won't be coming back to this live-action version anytime in the future. (2023-12-06)

Unfortunately, it just made me more and more bored... I once tried to read “Scott Pilgrim," but the book seemed pretty useless to me and intended for people about a hundred years younger than me, and I must say that the adaptation is very much faithful in this regard. There are plenty of ideas here, though, because Edgar Wright is a toyer, but the plot didn't interest me at all from about halfway and I felt like the avalanches of all sorts of cool things primarily numbed and suffocated me. (2019-01-20)

If someone has watched, read, listened, and recorded plenty of things, and they can also film in such a way that it is perfectly entertaining, then we’ve got nothing to worry about. During the screening, I wanted to chant and cheer loudly, and after it was over, I wanted to go back to the box office and do it all over again. This sort of "style geyser" cannot be absorbed the first time around. This is the second film this year where inventive British filmmaking has made an incredible splash for Hollywood money. (2010-10-12)

A film that I didn't expect anything from and watched almost by chance. I had an incredible time with it and was surprised by everything that unfolded. And then I also got to the comic, which surprised me even more. The film isn't a faithful adaptation, but it adequately incorporates the essential elements that make the comic so unique. A film that I truly enjoyed from start to finish, and I look forward to watching it again sometime. (2014-02-27)

So many corpses and not a drop of blood... I hate Michael Cera, his dumb mug and moronic one-liners bother me, so I had a major problem with Scott Pilgrim. On the other hand, there's Edgar Wright, a playful visual magician who turned this unbelievable nonsense into a special effects orgy full of memories of youthful gaming days. And the action scenes are top notch. (2011-06-30)