Remembering Edgar Wright’s geek-rock classic, ten years later.
Entertainment Weekly’s Darren Franich can also do things, so he rewatched the movie and wrote this piece.
(A shorter version appears in EW’s July issue.)
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“WE ARE SEX BOB-OMB!
FOUR!!!!”
Thats Kim Pine (Alison Pill) roaring intoScott Pilgrim vs.
The Worlds opening number, and Im not using nearly enough exclamation points.
Words blast across the screen when the ginger-mopped drummer slams her sticks together.
Every instrument blares a mosh pit of lightning bolts.
As the titular bassist lothario,Michael Cerahippity-hops through the song like somebodys tapping his jump button.
Call it Nintendo Punk.
The nostalgia has a purpose.
He dates a high schooler (louse!)
and hecheatson a high schooler (double louse!).
Call him morally ambiguous, butScott Pilgrimhas a sweetly skewed perspective on twentysomething angst.
We all have baggage, Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) tells Scott.
Their past haunts their future, every ex another bad decision coming back to jumpkick them in the face.
Is it painfully hipster to admit that the films box office failure feltright?
Anyone who saw it in theaters recognized an instant classic, and success spoils every band eventually.
screams Jason Schwartzmans villainous Gideon Graves.
Im blowing up right now!
The movie rejects his soul-selling corporate godhood and the markets rejection produced a cult sensation.
Revisiting it in 2020 is a quarantine-breaking social event.
So you dont just rewatchScott Pilgrim.
You return to the party its always throwing.
