I haven’t yet seen Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, so I don’t have any thoughts of my own to share about the movie yet. I’ve noticed, however, that many of my friends have published their thoughts on the movie, so I thought I’d do a little metareview of the movie.
Amy Nicholson for IE Weekly says:
Edgar Wright has made a 112-minute entertainment contraption, celluloid that shapeshifts its frames into video games, comic books and sitcoms…. It could give a seizure to anyone in the Twitterverse unused to dividing their brain among twelve browser windows. But for the already addled—myself, millions more and metastasizing—it’s a blast: fun, fresh and unbounded with an ensemble that delivers every joke and elbow jab. Read the rest here.
Inkoo Kang at Thinkovision offers:
Scott Pilgrim is an adorable indie action-romance told in video game language that is far better than the sum of its genre parts…. if the plot isn’t super-original, the winsomely nerdy way it’s told more than makes up for the narrative’s by-the-bookiness. Read the rest here.
Benji Briggs for Screenjunkies writes:
Wright, like a painter with vintage nintendo system, builds the 8-bit video game action of Scott Pilgrim to come at us with such freshness and detail that you’ll keep asking for more, more, more. Read the rest here.
Tasha Carter gushes:
Dude-man-girlfriend you will NOT be disappointed! It’s tons of fun! The only thing that bummed me out was the thought of eventually not being able to see it on the big screen anymore with a kickass sound system. It just won’t be the same on dvd.
(Yes I realize that I am thinking very far ahead) Via Facebook.
Brian Huntington for Not Zombies dissents:
Scott Pilgrim- really disappointing. Great visuals. Even better sound. Couldn’t care less about the characters. Via Twitter
That’s once around the horn with people I know and trust, and the bulk of the sentiment seems to land solidly in the movie’s camp. I look forward to the movie, and maybe I’ll relate my own thoughts after watching Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Just after I finish my rebuttal to Roger Ebert’s review of Kick-Ass… so sometime in 2012, just before the world ends. Allegedly.