I am a huge fan of Edgar Wright, but was a little worried to not have Simon Pegg or Nick Frost in it, and honestly I have gotten sick of Michael Cera, but I have to say my worries were unfounded because this is a great film. Fun witty, enjoyable and just plain bad ass all the way around. This film gets the look and feel of video games and really comes down to a sweet little love story. This is a must see film, and it is too bad it isn’t doing too well in the theaters because this is destined to be a cult classic.

Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is a down on his luck bass player in the band Sex Bob-Omb who seems to be irresistible to women, but his heart was badly broken a year ago, so now he is dating a a high schooler named Knives Chau (Ellen Wong) who he has barely held hands with. Scott lives in a one room apartment with his gay best friend Wallace Wells (Kieran Culkin) right across the street from where he grew up. Scott sees and falls for a mysterious girl named Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), who he wants to be with At the bands show in a concert to win a record label, Scott is attacked by Matthew Patel (Satya Bhabha) who turns out to be the first of Ramona’s 7 evil exes who he must defeat to be able to date her!

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Scott goes into street fighter mode and starts flying through the air and defeats and destroys Patel, getting his coins and points, and he starts seeing Ramona, though it takes Wallace to convince him he must break up with and break the heart of knives.

Next Scott and Romona go on a walk and end up at a movie set where they run into the actor and skateboarder Lucas Lee (Chris Evans) who turns out to be Ex number 2. Scott manages to defeat him by tricking him into doing too hard of a skateboarding trick.

The next Ex is Todd Ingram (Brandon Routh) who has superhuman powers from being a vegan. He is also the bass player for Envy Adams (Brie Larson) who was Scott’s big breakup when she left.

Scott is being destroyed, until he tricks him into drinking milk, and the Began Police show up to take his powers (love the cameo by Thomas Jane. And Scott is able to win.

The next day Scott is all depressed and is attacked by a girl Roxy Richter (Mae Whitman) though he does not know why, and he gets her to stop, but she vows to destroy him.

At a club Roxy comes in to attack and Romona helps him defeat her.

At the battle of the bands Sex Bob-Omb battles the next 2 exes, the DJ’s Kyle (Shota Saito) and Ken (Keita Saito), and manage to defeat them and Scott gets a one up. Romana was there in the crowd with the 7th ex Gideon Graves (Jason Schwartzman) who is the sponsor of the record contest.

It turns out Romona can’t leave Gideon because he has a chip in her head that lets him control her and she leaves with him, but not until Gideon signs the band sans Scott.

Scott goes to battle Gideon gaining the Power of Love sword. Knives arrives to battle Romona over scott, and Scott is killed by Gideon.

Scott is lost in the desert of his mind, but he uses his one up and comes back.

This time Scott fights for himself and gets the more powerful sword, the Power of Self Respect, and manages to destroy Gideon. He stops Knives and Romona from fighting, but then must fight the dark version of himself, who he makes friends with.

Romana walks off leaving Scott with Knives who obviously loves him, but Knives lets him go, as he obviously loves her, and Scott asks Romona if she can leave with him, and she agrees, and they leave together.

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SO MUCH FUN! What a great movie. Edgar Wright is a genius, he really is.