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Fri 08 Aug 2010Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
Michael Cera is an unfeasibly glamorous geek in this thin tale, writes Donald Clarke
THE LATEST film from Edgar Wright, director of Shaun of the Deadand Hot Fuzz, has just one notion in its busy little head. What if a pop-culture addict’s mundane life was rendered in the style of his favourite video games and comics? What if buying a pint of milk caused – in the style of the old BatmanTV series – onomatopoeic exclamations to be spelled out across the screen? ( Wham! Zap! Blam!) What if each everyday antagonist came across like the final boss in a platform video game? That would be fun. Wouldn’t it?
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