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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Action  |  Adventure  |  Comedy  |  Fantasy  |  Romance

Written by: Michael Bacall
Edgar Wright

Directed by: Edgar Wright

Release Date:
Theatrical: August 13, 2010

Running Time: 112 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for stylized violence, sexual content, language and drug references

Starring Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Jason Schwartzman, Brandon Routh, Mae Whitman, and Chris Evans

Scott Pilgrim has never had a problem getting a girlfriend. It's getting rid of them that proves difficult. From the girl who kicked his heart's ass--and now is back in town--to the teenage distraction he's trying to shake when Ramona rollerblades into his world, love hasn't been easy. He soon discovers, however, his new crush has the most unusual baggage of all: a nefarious league of exes controls her love life and will do whatever it takes to eliminate him as a suitor. As Scott gets closer to Ramona, he must face an increasingly vicious rogues' gallery from her past--from infamous skateboarders to vegan rock stars and fearsomely identical twins. And if he hopes to win his true love, he must vanquish them all before it really is game over. (Universal Pictures)

What The Critics Said

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100

Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall

Michael Cera elevates deadpan to an art, starring as a slacker turned action hero in this wildly inventive comedy that's one of the most vivid and spirited adaptations of a comic book since Spider-Man--and one of the hippest since Ghost World.

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100

The New York Times A.O. Scott

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.

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100

San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli

Handily beats back the evils of boredom.

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90

Village Voice Robert Wilonsky

As he did in "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz", Wright immerses his heroes in pop culture's detritus and diversions, but doesn't drown them in it. You don't have to be dazzled or tickled by the movie, or get every joke, to be touched by it, too.

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89

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

Wright takes the tools of a bloodless medium, the video game, and crafts an action-comedy with a true-blue beating heart.

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88

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams

There's a running joke that this epic of also-ran heroism is set in eternally modest Toronto; but its real locale is an alternate universe without parents or the unhip.

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88

Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore

Of all the gonzo-goofy comic book adaptations that embrace video gaming sensibilities, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is the gonzo-goofiest.

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88

ReelViews James Berardinelli

This is not the first time Wright has shown his understanding for such things, nor is this the first occasion in which he has displayed a strong sense of comedic timing, but Scott Pilgrim vs. the World feels fresher and more inspired than his previous outings, and that makes it an excellent source of late-summer entertainment.

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88

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Scott Pilgrim is a breathless rush of a movie that jumps off the screen, spins your head around and then stealthily works its way into your heart.

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83

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

The first rock & roll kung fu videogame youth love story.

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83

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

Wright and company do a splendid job of distilling it down to a fresh and entertaining joyride of a film.

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80

Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

Though the fun is not so much in who wins or loses the girl — it's the playing that matters, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World definitely has game.

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80

Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz

A fanboy's dream come true, a smart take on a smart comic that actually looks the part, with performances that make it worth watching for the rest of us, too.

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80

Boxoffice Magazine Pete Hammond

Put simply: Scott Pilgrim is a blast! The total package is a wildly comic journey into the head of a true original. If you are under 25 you will find all of it really, really funny.

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75

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

At its best, Wright's film is raucous, impudent entertainment.

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75

USA Today Claudia Puig

Scott Pilgrim, a lovelorn musician, is an appealing fusion of nerdy, cheeky and vulnerable. So, who better to play him than Michael Cera?

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75

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

English director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), takes the approach that movies have been far too reticent. His new film, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, is as vibrant as a cluttered wall of graffiti, jumpy enough to risk retina damage.

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75

Boston Globe Ty Burr

The movie is of this precise moment and you should probably see it now, since it will be dated by next Tuesday.

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

A ridiculously entertaining romp based on the graphic novels of Bryan Lee O'Malley and directed, with mash-up mastery, by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead).

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75

New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott

Aa refreshingly original take on the comic book adaptation.

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70

Variety Peter Debruge

With Michael Cera in the title role, twentysomethings and under will swiftly embrace this original romancer.

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70

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

Highly entertaining, from minute to minute, and its semi-mythical portrayal of Torontonian life is entirely charming. If you can stand massive doses of cute and clever, it's a fine use for your summer-movie dollar (whether or not that dollar has a funny old lady on it).

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63

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

The result is initially exhilarating, ultimately exhausting.

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60

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

Talk about style over substance: The sheer volume of musical, comic-strip and video-game influences, riffs and licks in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" can get exhausting, but they also are what lift this romantic coming-of-age tale from this world to someplace totally ... else.

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58

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

So why, given its moment-to-moment surplus of visual imagination, does the film feel so hollow and unsatisfying?

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50

New York Post Kyle Smith

A big warm cinematic jelly doughnut stuffed with youth, vitality, style, whimsy and other equally alarming properties. I tried to love it. But after 20 minutes, I sensed I was intruding on the movie's love affair with itself.

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50

New York Magazine David Edelstein

The film is repetitive, top-heavy: Wright blows his wad too early. But a different lead might have kept you laughing and engaged.

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50

New York Observer Sara Vilkomerson

What will happen to the man-boy when he's all man and can no longer slouch about in baggy pants and hoodie sweatshirts with perpetually flushed cheeks?

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50

St. Petersburg Times Steve Persall

Wright is an insanely funny filmmaker (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) yet only the front half of that description carries over to Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

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40

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

This is a discouragingly limp movie in which nothing is at stake.

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40

Time Out New York Keith Uhlich

It’s supremely annoying to see the ups and downs of romance reduced to archer-than-arch line readings and bloodless mortal kombat. What’s more frustrating is that the film, adapted from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s popular comic, is an endless visual delight.

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38

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

A dog-frequency movie: enjoyable only to those tuned in to its particular register.

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30

Movieline Stephanie Zacharek

With Scott Pilgrim, Wright leaps over the line from chattery cleverness to all-out self-consciousness.

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30

The New Yorker Anthony Lane

The film is alive with bad rock bands and dizzying bit parts, the standout being Kieran Culkin, in the role of Scott’s gay roommate, but we feel them gyrating around a hollow core

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.6 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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