If Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is the last movie Cera portrays the sensitive emo kid, he says goodbye with a bang and not a mumble. To fans of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel series on which the movie is based, this might not come as a surprise. The material wasn’t written for Cera, but it suits him perfectly. Or rather, Cera suits Scott Pilgrim. Even better, director Edgar Wright ( Sean of the Dead , Hot Fuzz ) blazes a stylistic new direction with his hyperkinetic, time-traveling, rule-trashing, video-game-referencing, tongue-firmly-in-cheek approach. While O’Malley’s storyline and dialogue are nearly intact for the film adaptation, Wright’s vision turns it into a riotous spoof of the films that made Cera a star.
It might be this movie that finally makes everyone realize Cera is the Molly Ringwald of his generation. Scott Pilgrim is the 23-year-old bassist for Toronto farm league indie band We Are Sex Bob-Omb, which includes his dour ex-girlfriend Kim (Alison Pill) on drums, lead singer Stephen Stills (Mark Webber) and hanger-on Young Neil (Johnny Simmons). Scott, still haunted by his breakup with Envy Adams (Brie Larson), has just started dating starry-eyed, 17-year-old Chinese-American Catholic school girl Knives Chau (Ellen Wong), which amuses Wallace Wells (Kieran Culkin), the super-smooth gay roommate with whom he shares a bed, and alarms his sister Stacey (Anna Kendrick). Scott is so hip he wears a different T-shirt with some kind of obscure pop-culture reference or collectible consumer product trademark in practically every scene.
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