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You need to take a step back to see the emotional heart of the story, an allegory of a generation struggling to exchange the solipsistic Xbox triumphs for awkward real-world love and empathy.
Knowing self-mockery is the name of the game.
It's a razzle-dazzle compendium of quick-draw humor, superhero stunts and gamer references wrapped around a teen dream love story, starring -- who else? -- Michael Cera, the first genuine nerd superstar.
A package of cinematic Pop Rocks, a neon-hued, defiantly non-nutritive confection that nonetheless makes you laugh at its sheer bold novelty.
Its speedy, funny, happy-sad spirit is so infectious that the movie makes you feel at home in its world even if the landscape is, at first glance, unfamiliar.
[Its] self-awareness is the saving grace. As long as nothing is taken seriously, everything is permitted, from leaps in logic to caddish heroes.
The entire film works on just how much you are willing to accept its premise: if you're fine with people developing amazing powers, characters talking directly to the camera and almost every other trick in the cinematic book, then you'll do fine
A film that defines the video game generation and redefines the romantic comedy.
Scott Pilgrim will make your head explode. But in a good way, not with brains and stuff.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World becomes a fatal case of flash over substance. Pretty great flash, though.
While O'Malley's storyline and dialogue are nearly intact for the film adaptation, Wright's vision turns it into a riotous spoof of the films that made Cera a star.
Scott Pilgrim is a film where youth is power and power is music, video games, and confronting your exes with how great your current hook up is, but like most hipsters you meet, it is more impressed with itself than anything else
Arguably the best-judged comic book adaptation to date
Proving that the geek shall inherit the earth ... cinema's über-nerd Michael Cera [takes] on all comers in the quest for the girl of his dreams.
An almost overwhelming barrage of quirks, the adventures of Scott Pilgrim come at you at a million miles a minute but you won't mind because it's so damn entertaining.
Essentially amounts to a case of what could have been.
... imagines the trials of one young, confused man's love life (and arrested life in general) as a series of videogame challenges by way of a comic book fantasy.
Scott Pilgrim is refreshing in its lack of pretension and lack of smirking hipster irony. Instead we get something sweet, genuine, and dazzlingly well made.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was the summer's main event and while it quietly slipped in and out of theaters, its new DVD release will hopefully prove how long its legs are.
Visually daring, ingenuous and extremely entertaining, Scott Pilgrim is virtually flawless.
An interesting statement on modern youths detachment from actual human emotions through the advent of technology...
Not only one of the funniest movies of the summer; its utilization of over-the-top special effects unintentionally puts it up there in the action-blockbuster category it so archly parodies.
[It's] the funniest, most furiously action packed film of the year; one certain to be beloved by all the boys and girls who share the same passions and foibles as its foolish hero (myself included).
Video games taught a generation to fight for what you want
Some might see it as a great hipster parable, a postmodern epic for the Nintendo generation; I think it's simply a triumph of dizzying cinematic style, and it never misses a beat.
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