If you understand video games, you'll totally get this movie. That's how simple I'm going to make it for ya.
I just saw this movie and it just rocks! It is a video game movie, but it's not based off of just a single video game. Rather, it takes the real world and makes that into a video game, which seems to work incredibly well, strangely.
Basically, the story of this is that a 22-year old Scott Pilgrim is dating a high school girl. Everything seems okay, until he sees Ramona Flowers. He goes out with the new girl and has the best night of his life. (First base, basically.) However, in order for him to continue dating her, he must defeat, to the death, her 7 evil exes with superpowers. (6 boyfriends and one girlfriend. (Hey, some girls are bi-curious.)) Also, every time he wins, the boss turns into a shower of cash.
Now, the movie also happens to be about Scott redeeming himself for his dating sins. Basically, he broke up with practically every girl he went out with, with the latest one being a cheating deal. The final battle pretty much resolves all that, and that part is really a must see.
The real sad part of this movie isn't actually something that happens in the movie, but rather a simple fact of the movie itself. Basically, after the first week, it's in 5th place. Yikes!
Then again, I kind of understand that. I mean, as big as video games are, they aren't as big as something like a TV or a computer. Basically, there's still a large population that doesn't get video games and will hate the movie because of that. My mom is still trying to get video games herself, and she's 50 years old. She only plays puzzle games, so it might explain why she only found it as being "OKAY and DIFFERENT". I feel that, given a large amount of time, this movie will become more popular. Much like Tron where no one fully understood computers at the time when it came out, but by now has become such a good old classic because people understood computers better, it got due for a sequel.
As for those who love video games, this is THE movie you must see this year. Trust me, you'll thank me later.
See ya later!
