Trolling #8: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World SUCKS!

Are you ready to be made angry? Welcome back to CraveOnline‘s Trolling, my dear contrarians, the series devoted to standing up and proudly thumbing our noses in the big, fat, stupid face of popular opinion. If it’s hated, we will rush to its defense. If it’s loved, we will do our all to tear it to shreds.

Edgar Wright’s 2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (based on the somewhat obscure manga-inspired Canadian comic books by Bryan Lee O’Malley) was not much of a financial success when it was released in theaters, but has since gone on to attain a kind of cult status in the geek community, filling midnight screenings, and selling incredibly well on home video. It has been praised endlessly by certain critics, and some of its fans have declared it an important motion picture that speaks the new language of a new generation. It’s a beloved and stylish movie that speaks to the way video games have influenced the lives of people currently in their late teens and early twenties.

Well, anything that is beloved is just askin‘ for it ’round these parts. Indeed, it won’t take too much intellectual delving to reveal that Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is actually a weak film that, in true Trolling parlance, sucks. Let us sit down, look at the movie, and disabuse the heck out of some notions.  

Yes, it does possess a new aesthetic, and incorporates the true milieu of a new generation. The cast are all energetic and funny, and they sure do look cute. Indeed, it’s one of the funnier films about young people that has been made in the last few years. But is the film an important voice of a new generation, that displays just what the aesthetic and social state is like to Millennials? Or is it a vapid and action-packed style exercise that the makers hope would look like something more important?  

Until next week, let the hate mail flow. 


Witney Seibold is a featured contributor on the CraveOnline Film Channel, co-host of The B-Movies Podcast. You can read his weekly articles Trolling, Free Film School and The Series Project, and follow him on “Twitter” at @WitneySeibold, where he is slowly losing his mind. 

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