Scott Pilgrim vs. The Awesome Movie Adaptation

The first volume's cover.

   In 2004, a guy called Bryan Lee O'Malley released the first volume of a 6 parts graphic novel centered around a Canadian 23 year old called Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim's precious little life. The graphic novels were all about him meeting the new girl in town called Ramona Flowers and having to battle her 7 evil exes to go out with her. I know, weird. However, throughout the book, O'Malley tells us the story of someone having to recognise his past errors, accepting himself and reaching maturity in doing so.

  It was in 2010 when a movie based on all six volumes and called Scott Pilgrim vs The world was released. Were it not for this movie, I would have never known of the existence of one of my favourite comic books ever. In fact, I first watched the movie two years ago and decided to read the comics, then re-watch the movie, re-read the comics and re-watch the movie a third time. Yes, I am a bit obsessed. But in doing so I discovered that the move is way more awesome than first time I saw it.

Two posters for the movie.

  The thing so great about it is that it feels like actually being a comic and not a movie, even though it is recorded by real actors. Many of the lines are extracted directly from the comics and is able to adapt their drama and humour alike. The characters themselves are greatly portrayed by their respective actors.  Not only that, but the special effects are so amazing and colourful that they seem like they were drawn by O'Malley himself (here's an scene so that you can check it out yourself). Even many transitions are exactly like in the comics. The only things that are different are the pace, due to the movie length, and the ending, as it was filmed before the last volume came out. Despite this, it still keeps a similar tone to the one found in the comics.

   I really recommend that you watch the movie when you have time, because it's very good even as an independent movie despite it passing a little under the radar. And, who knows, you may end up looking up the comics (which you can read here) and enjoying the movie even more and in its full form.