Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

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I saw Scott Pilgrim over the weekend and thought it was one of the strangest movies I have ever seen. Nevertheless, it was an entertaining movie and had a number of highly stylized fight scenes and music gigs which grabbed my attention. Some of the more interesting moments included enemies turning into a pile of coins after they were defeated just like in a video game and one of the seven evil exes having Vegan powers, which were taken away in a cameo by Thomas Jane, after he was tricked by Scott Pilgrim into drinking half & half.

Never having read the graphic novels it was based on, I had no idea what to expect, other than Michael Cera playing the awkward dude who somehow always wins the girl. He has definitely been typecast and I have a feeling that is exactly how he is in real life. The movie was filled with an assortment of interesting characters, including Pilgrim's gay roommate Wallace, who had the uncanny ability to send text messages to Scott's sister without him noticing, Knives Chau, Scott's 17 year old Asian Catholic school girlfriend who he broke up with to be with to be with Ramona Flowers, and of course Ramona Flowers.

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