SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (2010) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Edgar Wright
Michael Cera, Ellen Wong, Mary Elizabeth Winstead,
Mark Webber, Allison Pill, Johnny Simmons,
Anna Kendrick, Jason Schwartzman, Kieran Culkin
Here's a movie that was made a few thousand miles from Hollywood, and that's a good thing. Michael Cera plays the title character, the bass player in a low-end rock-&-roll band, scuffling around Toronto and trying to juggle the affection of a would-be groupie named Knives Chau (Ellen Wong) and his own attraction to a girl named Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). To win over Ramona, our hero has to fight each of her seven ex-lovers, and even then there's no guarantee Ramona will care. No wonder he's hooked on Ramona. It's another movie based on a comic book, and it zips along on its own tossed-off, video-game, comic-book vibe. It's smart and funny and it totally gets what the world looks like when you're young and in love and out of control and and too wired to care. Music fans of a certain age should get a kick out of a garage band with a guitarist named Stephen Stills and a backup bass player called Young Neil.
