In this action comedy, director Edgar Wright brings to the big screen Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novels to life with funny and visually interesting action sequences.
The feature makes use of a strong cast as well as manga and video-game iconography to depict the characters' emotions, romance and fantasy, while fusing Japanese comic indie rock, classic rock and video games.
Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera), is a 22 year-old bass guitarist for garage band Sex Bob-Omb. His band circle consists of the disaffected drummer Kim Pine (Alison Pill), lead singer and songwriter Stephen Stills (Mark Weber), super fan Young Neil (Johnny Simmons), and Stephen Stills' obnoxious sometime-girlfriend Julie Powers (Aubrey Plaza).
After being dumped by rocker, Envy Adams (Brie Larson), Scott started dating the lively 17-year old Knives Chau (Ellen Wong) who thinks the world of him. Many comic scenes involve his gay roommate, Wallace Wells (Kieran Culkin) and younger sister Stacey Pilgrim (Anna Kendrick) who are constantly in contact with each other and urge Scott to do the right thing.
When Scott encounters the girl of his dreams, the mysterious Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), he must defeat her seven exes to win her. They are: Ramona's junior high-school sweetheart Matthew Patel (Satya Bhabha), the pro-skateboarder and action star Lucas Lee (Chris Evans), the Clash at Demonhead power vegan bassist Todd Ingram (Brandon Routh), Ramona's scorned ex-girlfriend, Roxy Richter (Mae Whitman), the identical twins, Kyle and Ken Katayanagi (Keita and Shota Saito), and the leader of the Evil Exes who yields the most power over Ramona, Gideon Graves (Jason Schwartzman).
Original songs for the Sex Bob-Omb band were created by the four time platinum rock musician Beck Hansen.
Bill Pope's (Spider-Man 2; The Matrix series) cinematography hugely amplifies the fights by moving the camera in a fast-pace video game fashion, capturing the martial arts moves, that keep the viewers tuned in.
The inventive and imaginative filmmaking style maintains the feature crisp with an energetic feel.
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