Scott Pilgrim vs The World

 Scott Pilgrim vs the World is 10 years old this year, but it might have been made a lot earlier, why wasn't it I hear you ask, well I'll tell you, Shaun of the Dead, because of the success of SOTD Edgar Wright decided he wanted to make the follow up, Hot Fuzz, before he started any other projects.

Scott Pilgrim was co-written, produced and directed by Wright, it was a bit of a passion project and based on the graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O'Malley.

The basic plot for those of you who haven't seen the film (WHY???) Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) falls for Romona Flower (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) but to date her he first needs to defeat her evil exes!

So ensues a rollicking adventure involving battling bands, strange super powers, fantastic music and visuals.

Fun Fact Time:

1. Scott Pilgrim was named after a song by Canadian band Plumtree, and you see Scott in the movie wearing a Plumtree t-shirt, the song is also on the soundtrack.

2. Michael Cera was Wrights first and only choice to play Scott after seeing him in Arrested Development.

3. Before the movie started filming the cast were each given a list of 10 secret things about their characters.

4. The title sequence was suggested by Quentin Tarantino.

5. All the evil ex's are designated by number and their numbers will connected somehow on them, Todd is number 3 and 3 appears on his shirt, Roxy who's number 4 fights Scott in a club called 4, and Scott who isn't an ex wear a t-shirt with zero on it and drinks coke zero. Now you know this you'll watch the film and try and catch all the references, I did!

6. The only actors over the age of 30 in the film were the Vegan Police.

7. The four cast members in the band Sex Bob-Omb spent several weeks learning how to play together as a band, they all had to learn their instruments from scratch, apart from Cera who was already an accomplished musician.

8. Beck wrote the song Ramona, he also wrote the music for Sex Bob-Omb.

9. The script was finished before the graphic novel was completed so some of the film dialogue ended up in the graphic novel!

10. There is an alternative ending where Scott goes off with Knives, what do you think of that.

So give Scott Pilgrim an anniversary re-watch it still holds up.