The director Edgar Wright has brought to life with all the energy possible to the comic book based his film is getting one of the most fresh, witty and original adaptations to date. References saturated sleeves, video games and pop culture, this youthful film repeats its final stretch slightly but is a continuous and impressive style explosion of Michael Cera in the title role.

Scott Pilgrim is a twenty-two years playing bass in a band and is starting to come out with a girl who still goes to school. One day a girl named Ramona skates on your life and he is immediately fascinated by it and pursues it until he finally gets that she agrees to go on a date with him. But Scott is not thought to have a relationship with Ramona has to defeat in battle the seven evil ex-partner of her.

One of the largest and verifiable skills director Edgar Wright is to give a twist and add a clever comic gender component to approaching. His TV series "Spaced" is a remarkable parody of the sit-com "Shaun of the Dead" of the horror genre and the fun " Hot Fuzz "of the police action films. Following his line and his first project without the actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Edgar Wright expands its style and imagination. This adaptation of the comic book "Scott Pilgrim" is, along with " Watchmen "and" Sin City ", one of the most reliable made to date, both in appearance and resources used.

The center of the story is one of the classic arguments and seen in movies. Boy meets girl, falls in love and must overcome a number of difficulties to conquer. Such topical serves as its director and guiding base to build a visually imaginative films seen, where manga, video games and movies come together on screen. Edgar Wright uses all sources and references to it, especially those relating to popular youth culture today, and with them and a good full comedic film extremely funny and original.

What is clear is that this is not a film for all audiences or, at least, it can be enjoyed by all people in the same way. If you have not grown up or lived surrounded by Supermario Bros, Street Fighter, Tekken, Sims, Zelda and Wayne's World and many others is quite possible to lose much of the humor and the achievement of this film. You could say that "Scott Pilgrim against the world" is a film made by a fan / geek / nerd / geek for a public fan / geek / nerd / geek. Is not accessible to everyone, but for audiences who can relate some of their references, this is a magnificent film. Its only flaw is that in its final section is slightly repetitive but its staging and waterfall humorous outweigh the excess of fifteen minutes you have the movie.

Michael Cera (" Juno "," Youth in Revolt ") is the protagonist of the film in a role reminiscent of all that has gone before and here takes advantage of his own typecasting. The film features a number of secondary, particularly noteworthy Kieran Culkin, Ellen Wong and Jason Schwartzman. Part of the many references in "Scott Pilgrim" also comes with the choice of actors such as Brandon Routh and his role in "Superman" and Chris Evans and his role as the Human Torch. Missing only a cameo by Nick Frost and Simon Pegg , which probably would be difficult to fit but for fans of the films of this director would be more than welcome.

"Scott Pilgrim against the world" is a film with good players but where the protagonists are the wit, imagination and visual resources present in each plane of the film and along with its multitude of cultural references make this film a cult film for a generation.