The film runs close to 2 hours but the novelty wears off within the first 20 minutes. By evil-ex 3 I felt like I had checked out and all I wanted to do was go home and watch something more entertaining like C-PAC or just count the bumps on my ceiling... there has to be tens of thousands up there. But no, I stayed... until the end... still trying to figure out the pointlessness of the final 20 minutes. While director Edgar Wright has had some major hits in his past (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) I would daresay that Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is being catered to a certain niche and people are either going to love it or hate it.
Now to contradict what I just said I can't say that I hated it... there were moments that I smiled... the first twenty minutes were kind of cool... unfortunately like I already said the novelty wore off and jokes about peeing on people and Scott Pilgrim having to share a mattress on a floor with his gay roommate and his boyfriends got old very quickly. It was also nice to see a movie filmed AND set in Canada, because while everyone comes here to shoot their films no one really sets anything here. So it was nice to see a movie set in Toronto... however now that I say that I didn't hate it... I far from loved it. Like on a scale between love and hate I am closer to the hate level of the scale. What didn't I like besides what I've already talked about?
The performances were sub par. Anna Kendrick went from almost being a gorgeous Oscar-winner to being 3-hairs away from a uni-brow and a whiny bitchy sister character that is almost completely unnecessary. Don't even get me started on the performances by the ex's. And of course Michael Cera plays, once again, a boy who tries so hard to get with a girl that is so far out of his league... and managing to do so. The movie in itself was also way too long for a movie of this genre. Don't get me wrong I don't dislike this film for the absurdity of it, because sometimes the absurdity makes things generally enjoyable... this time it just got boring and fast. Maybe it was the acting, maybe it was the rehashed fight scenes every few minutes, maybe it was the overuse of video game animation... whatever it was - I got bored, quickly... and once I'm bored I stop enjoying the film.
Is this movie worth paying to see? No. Is it worth seeing? Maybe only if you have absolutely nothing better to do with your time. And yet, despite the fact that I disliked the film I believe that a lot of people will like it... a lot of people who don't go to movies so often will find it different and those that do go to a lot of movies will find it refreshing because of the absurdity. I however also believe that a lot of people will get bored, really easily with this film and that it really won't be as big of a hit as everyones guessing it will be. Everyone who has really had a desire to see this film has already seen it in pre-release with Universal Studios doing premieres throughout the country over the past month and a half, giving die-hards many chances to get into see it.
1.5 out of 5 Stars
Oh... Sorry... Those are the bumps on my ceiling... time to get counting...
I rather enjoyed it! I overheard other people filing out of the movie that seemed to have really enjoyed it. Didn't hear anyone muttering, "That was a waste of my time."
ReplyDeleteIt's not a 5-star movie. But it's a solid 3.5 in my world.
Dude - how you are trying to become a voice for Ottawa movie viewers is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteYou're opinions are pretentious - and scream of a pseudo-intellectual wannabe film critic.
See a few more movies dude - and perhaps, "Toy Story 3" won't top the best movies you've seen this year...