Comic:
One of the best series I've read. The first volume is filled with heart, decent art and lots of laugh. By the time you reach the sixth you love all the characters, happy with the ending but still left wanting more. And that's where my addiction began, so you can bet I was scared by the idea of a game and movie.
Video Game:
Old school beat 'em up like Streets of rage, Battle Toads or Turtle's in Time with classic chiptunes music and a great leveling system. How could it go wrong? Well guess what, IT DIDN'T! It felt like playing my Sega or Super Nintendo without feeling dated. It was fun enough that I beat it with all four characters just to unlock the secret character and am going to beat it with him! I know what you're thinking, a comic book/movie video game that's good, I had my doubts too, but consider my fears shattered! Oh and did I mention Zombies?
Movie:
How? How can you make a movie out of something so random, filled with video game/rock/pop culture references? How could you ever believe you can capture the same emotion and energy? You're a brave man Edger Wright, and I'm sorry when you announced this movie that I doubted you. I'm sorry I thought even your Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz skills wouldn't be enough. You proved me wrong. Although you had to change a lot of information and re-arrange the events a bit, you created a movie that captured the feel and had me enjoying myself the entire time.
Michael Cera, you may still not be 100% Scott Pilgrim in my head, but you did damn good job and I loved your dopiness. Ellen Wong, way to be a awesome high school ninja, I shall attempt to keep track of your future career! Kieran Culkin, you almost stole the show with your banter and energy. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, you did amazing, and I blame the director for your lack of emotion (sorry Edger) cause I could feel your real energy trying to poke through(also Edger admited in an interview that you were too funny and he toned you down). Last but not least, Jason Schwartzman, wow...just wow. Funny but evil, and you know you got something special when I keep having the line "the acoustics in here are AMAAAZZING!!!!" loop in my head just because you have awesome ways of saying everything!
(side note Anna Kendrick, you were a awesome Stacey Pilgrim and you are very very very pretty!)
And about those references, Beck and Metric supplied the perfect bands for Sex Bob-omb and Clash and Demonhead. In the first 2 seconds of the movie you hear sounds from Legend of Zelda. Seriously, this movie made me geek out so much I missed some of the lines and now have to see it again.
So what does this mean? It means I have found the trifecta of nerdum!, a trio of geekyness, A TRI-FORCE OF ENTERTAINMENT POWER! Never have a I known a series of Comics that gets adapted into a movie that really captures everything that's needed. And you top that off with a video game that got me back on the gamespot forums to geek out with fellow gamers? It's never happened! Now all I wish is they had an amazing set of toys! (I'm talking to you Hasbro!...and don't you dare give me that 3 inch B.S.)
So as much as I never want the series to end and would love to know what happens in the lives of all the side characters, I think it should be stopped here and I can forever know it ended in perfection.
