Good Scott Pilgrim vs. the World reviews give film the power-up

”Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” reviews seem to agree: the hyper-stylized comic book and video game world is a hoot. It’s a world with which veteran video game players – particularly fans of fighters like “Street Fighter” – are well familiar. Scott Pilgrim’s world, in all its hyper-reality, is very comparable to the world of the comic book film “Kick Ass,” which so happened to be a favorite of numerous critics who enjoy “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”. Critics who support both films tend to favor Scott Pilgrim’s world as a whole, though. Resource for this article – Good Scott Pilgrim vs. the World reviews give film the power-up by Personal Money Store.

’Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ reviews trumpet the wild mix

New artistic forms are born from the fusion of a dizzying array of popular influences in “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”. Young musician and professional slacker Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is looking for true love. He finds it in delivery girl Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but there’s a problem – seven problems, to be specific. Scott must defeat Ramona’s “seven evil exes” “Street Fighter”-style before he can have the love of the Technicolor-haired young maiden. It’s a simplistic plot ripped straight from a video game, and “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” pays constant tribute to such games, comics, television shows and other pop-culture artifice in a dizzying fusion. It’s not meant to break new ground in terms of plot. It is a pop culture ride, and we are to ride along.

Review fusion – A nerd feast

Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News sees “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” as a blur of style over substance, nevertheless a romantic coming-of-age story that burns with a satisfying light in bright neon. Eric D. Snider of Film.com hails the film’s exuberance and surreal visual style and says the surrealism doesn’t shake the film’s target audience – 20-somethings – from their reality, but salutes it. The nerdiness of Scott Pilgrim himself is also quite appropriate to the video game loving nerdfest mix, says the L.A. Times.

What matters is getting there, not where ‘there’ is

”Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” rocks through the changes in an eye-and ear-pleasing blowout. ”It’s the playing that matters,” not who wins the skirmish of exes, says the Los Angeles Times reviewer. But on the other side of the fence are reviewers like Kyle Smith of the New York Post. Scott Pilgrim’s journey lacks direction and loves itself too much, writes the Post’s reviewer. That ride may not be for every person, but it captures its target audience with panache. ”All games, no joystick” is the Post’s verdict, yet judging by box office receipts, individuals are lining up to play.

Additional reading

Films.com

film.com/features/story/review-scott-pilgrim-takes-us/39953185

Los Angeles Times

latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-scott-pilgrim-20100813,0,4279497.story

New York Daily News

nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2010/08/13/2010-08-13_scott_pilgrim_vs_the_world_review_music_and_videogame_visuals_take_this_tale_for.html

New York Post

nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/all_games_no_joystick_LiPc4JHjB5HPqyv4vSD4AN