Scott Pilgrim vs The World (Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin) : Movie Trailer
August 12, 2010 by Sean Lynch
Filed under Featured, Movie Trailers, Movies, Trailers
Let’s get this out of the way nice and early – Scott Pilgrim vs The World [Read our Full Review Here] is one of the coolest and most original movies to hit cinema screens in 2010, joining only Kick-Ass and Inception in that league of “mind blowing originality”.
Based on the cult comic book series written by Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs The World – the movie – faithfully follows Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera), an indie geek who has never had a problem getting a girlfriend. It’s getting rid of them that proves difficult for him.
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 (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) 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 control her love life and will do whatever it takes to eliminate him as a suitor.
It’s Edgar Wright’s finest moment (yep, even cooler than Shaun Of The Dead) as he mixes 1980s and 1990s video game nostalgia with a modern day mid-twenties slacker social sensibility. It’s manic and weird and nonsensical in the best way possible.
Better yet – the action scenes are genuinely amazing. Not just in a “movie geeks will love it”, I’m talking “Anyone who has seen an action movie ever” kind of way. They are inventive, new and fresh… TAKE THAT LAW ABIDING CITIZEN!
Check out the sickballs trailer below…
The best part of it all is that it’s as accurate to the original source text as possible, with the tone and style matching perfectly. Don’t believe me? Then check out this very clever trailer mash-up in which some clever sod has re-made the official trailer with cells from the actual comic book.
Yep, Scott Pilgrim vs The World is a fanboys dream!
That shouldn’t be a put off for non-geeks, it’s just that… well, it helps. At the very least let’s just hope it does better business than the equally awesome Kick-Ass.
