Scott Pilgrim vs. The Wold

Scott Pilgrim is originally a serie of comics created by Brian Lee O'Malley. But I won't talk about the serie but the film because I have only seen it -not reading the comics- and I was delighted with it.



The film was planned after the first volume of the comic was released. Bryan Lee O'Malley after completed it, his publisher contacted producer Marc Platt in order to propose a film version. So, Universal Studios contracted Edgar Wright (the director of the film) to adapt the Scott Pilgrim comics. But, in O'Malley's view, the story of Scott Pilgrim hadn't been as eploited as he would like.
The filming started in March 2009 in Toronto and the entire film was released in North-America on August 2010. Acording to wikipedia, the premiere of the film wasn't recoup its $60 million production budget. It finished fifth on its first weekend of release in USA. But, when the productors decided to do the film on home video, it became top-selling Blu-ray on Amazon.com during the first day it was available (Amazon is a US multinational electronic commerce company which in the film appears -Ramona Flowers works for it).
The main characters are Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) and Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). There are also other characters which are and act in a very particular way.
The plot is quite simple. Scott falls in love with Ramona and he have to defeat seven evil exes of Ramona to be with her. So, the film is about how Scott wins Ramona's love.
The dialogs are very simples too and the story is reported very fast. So, until the end - well, or until the middle of the film - you can't understand it totally. I have to say that it's a film with a lot of "graphical humor" or, as I prefer to say, "stupid humor". That's why I love it. (I love laughing at everything, whatever it is)
The film includes a lot of scenes which reminds video-games and it has a lot of special effects which, in my view, are combined with real images in such a way that, even being unreal scenes, the whole scene looks nice.
The film also have a very good sound track. Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich (who has said in several times that it's the sixth member of Radiohead) and Beck, among other, has contribuited to the film's sountrack. Beck composed the music played by "Sex-Bob-Omb" in the film. The members of "Sex-Bob-omb" had to learn their respective instruments and spend time rehearsing as a band with Michel Cera (Scott in the film, who already played the bass) and Beck before the filming began. The actors also perform on the movie sundtrack.
The other band which appears in the film is "Crash and the Boys" and their songs were wroten by Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene.
"Crash at Demonhead" is the Scott ex-girlfriend's band and it has the influence of Metric which includes their song "Black Sheep" on the film.

I think the film had to be seen in order to appreciate their work. It's not a wonder but I think that it is very good for people who like the funny films.