Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

[Kevin]

I've watched it and enjoyed it. I'd never even heard of the graphic novel and honestly had no idea what it was going in. I enjoyed the style of the movie. The story was so-so. The fights were fun. The music was fun. The atmosphere that was created by it all was cool. The way, what I call comic book elements, were brought into the medium of the movie was done very well and worth the watch on their own. The acting was solid, I actually had the most issue with Ramona. I think she was supposed to feel flat and withdrawn a lot, but she came off wooden in several scenes and I had no sense that she was supposed to be. But overall she was still good, I'm being a little nit picky with the criticism.

My critique of the story being so-so, is that while it was a coming of age story, I can't really claim that I felt they really finished that journey. I understand that it was just the first step, and some of it might have been because the end was a bit rushed, but I don't believe Scott fully got it, and Ramona was still running and I saw nothing that showed she was going to change. Too me the story was about both of them coming of age, not just Scott. I saw Scott learning some, but it still felt like he missed the big picture and only learned a bit about self respect and love.

All that being said, I've seen it more than once, and I do enjoy watching it, but I'm not watching it for the story and not every movie has to be about the story. This story was strong enough, and the rest of the film was done in such an enjoyable way that overall it's a good movie.

So yeah I can agree with the Star Wars comparison, though this movie is not Star Wars. While the core story of Stars Wars (and when I say I'm mostly referring to "A New Hope") is only so-so, the framework it's put in, and the execution of that framework is excellent. That's part of my problem with the newer Star Wars films (and that includes Jedi). Some of that framework was not done as well (Ewoks, Jar-Jar, Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen being replaceable by blocks of wood and not losing anything, R2-D2 flying, etc) so the fact that the core story was weak in points and had holes in others could be a bit more of a bother. The framework of Pilgrim wasn't quite as good as what Star Wars was and the story was even weaker. But again I still liked it.