Critics reviews

Wright knows how to use pop culture to better understand life. scott pilgrim is as full of pop references as kill bill but rendered by a wit, not a smart-ass sadist.

It understands perfectly the lunacy of being of love — how, at the same time, it clarifies and deludes, ennobles and fells us.

The fact that the film partakes in and pays homage to video game culture, and lets that culture be a predominate influence on its storytelling and visuals is enough to inspire eschatological musings, particularly as there's been an uptick in "whatever happened to the good old-fashioned romantic comedies" musings going around the media. Because this is, as it happens, a romantic comedy, and I think a pretty good one.

A package of cinematic Pop Rocks, a neon-hued, defiantly non-nutritive confection that nonetheless makes you laugh at its sheer bold novelty.

With the willed goofiness of its media-centrism—which both diverts and distills the constant pressure its characters endure—“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” presents a richer blend of the contemporary adolescent experience than any teen comedy I’ve seen.

Its speedy, funny, happy-sad spirit is so infectious that the movie makes you feel at home in its world even if the landscape is, at first glance, unfamiliar.