Thursday, 17 October 2013

Scott Pilgram vs The World Film Review

Scott Pilgrim vs The World
“Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” the only movie that truly portrays the difficulties of having a girlfriend.
By: Sofia Salad Farah

     There are those movies that make you feel old, awkward, and makes you ask the question why I don’t have this moment in my life. But this movie has the opposite effect. The movie is funny happy/sad, and we can relate so much with the feelings between Ramona Flowers and Scott Pilgrim. It makes you feel at home, and in its world even though the landscape is at first glance, and unfamiliar
     
      It is 2010 in Toronto, Canada during a very cold winter Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is an unemployed 23-year-old bass guitarist in an up-and-coming garage rock band called “Sex Bob-omb” he is dating a cute perky 17-year-old high school girl, Knives Chau (Ellen Wong). He is having fun in life just rolling around until one day Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) roller-blades into his life. Ramona moved to Toronto from New York City to find peace and quiet and leave her past behind. No one knows what her past is, but Scott will find out very soon as he tries to make Ramona his new girlfriend. Before Scott can begin dating Ramona, he must prove himself by defeating the league of her seven exes who controls her love life. They will do anything to get rid of and destroy any new boyfriend Ramona may consider. If Scott wants to find true love with Ramona, he must defeat all seven, before the game is over. 
      
    Michael Cera the guy who Scott Pilgrims character did a decent job in the very emotional scenes but it was like he was a bit too sarcastic. I know he did that on purpose to show the movie in a comedic but still he needed to portray his feeling a bit more. Mary Elizabeth Winstead she played Ramona Flowers I think she portrayed her character extremely well because she showed she was a mysterious, and somewhat depressed person through her voice, facial expressions, and body movement. So the question you might be asking yourselves is “So who acted the worst?” Okay so the worst actor was Ellen Wong who played Knives Chau her acting was so bad a high monkey could’ve done better. She was too perky. She didn’t was TOO clingy. She made teenage girls look like they were obsessed with tall sticks which we call boys
    
       The scenes that  were  funny was when Scott’s gay friends Wallace whenever they were together it made everyone laugh. He was so unsupportive that he made Scott laugh at himself. The scenes that were cool were when Scott would have to fight the exes it used a perfect blend of comedy, and special effects. The special effects were amazing. Snow was in every scene which would be considered cool because they movie was filmed during the spring. Comedy was used well because Scott would use his sarcasm to throw off the exes so he can defeat them. I didn’t like how they were too much special effects and not enough chemistry going with Scott, and Ramona.
   
     The moral of this movie would be if you love someone do whatever you can to keep her. Also don’t doubt yourself if your different you can do it. To be honest this movie has no morals, it goes against all my morals and value. The only thing I learned was that Pac Man was originally from Tokyo, Japan and it is a horrible conversation starter especially with a girl your in love with.

    The group of people who should watch this are young adults because the movie has a lot of rascist jokes and sterotypes. Also the movie portrays different sexual orientations that children aren’t familiar with it. Also a lot of inappropriate words being used that people underage shouldn’t be hearing. This movie would be recommended to older teens. The MPAA rating I would give this movie is PG 14. I think this movie was funny but should had given a little more emotion. It was an intriguing picture for being so exotic and eccentric, and for making itself with the style and structure of a videogame rather than a film.  The movie scenes had series of game-levels and flavouring this sequence, not with the usual dramatic reversals and character-development.

 Scale 1-5
3.5


Sofia Salad Farah is a grad11 student currently attending the school Kipling Collegiate Institute. She enjoys sculpting, and painting during her free time. She studying to become a lawyer. 

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