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| Poster by Martin Ansin. |
If you can imagine Mario bouncing on your head thinking he'd get a coin out of the deal, then getting rushed by the cast of Final Fantasies I-VI nipping off for some Potions at the local apothecary and running away with the Triforce from a very pissed off Link, all while downing an entire Costa's worth of caffeine and charging through the set of the 1960's Batman television series, you'd get an experience that roughly equates to seeing Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Chances are you've never seen anything else quite like this before in a film; it's a hyper-kinetic rollercoaster through the other side of the arcade screen that proudly wears its geek colours on its sleeve.
Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera), who despite what his name might suggest is not a religious traveler from Glasgow, but rather a 22-year old slacker-cum-hipster, and bassist in the garage band Sex Bob-Omb (as in Super Mario Bros. 2), is something of a heartbreaker, getting into relationships quickly which typically end not long after. He ends up meeting his match in the form of the beautiful and mysterious Amazon delivery girl Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), who operates on the Spice Girls Wannabe Principle: if you want to be her lover, you've got to get past her seven Evil Exes.
OK, it's not like that song at all, but shut up, I'm making a joke here.
