Video game movies suck, yes? Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Alone in the Dark, Mortal Kombat.
Yeah they pretty much all waver between God-awful and depressingly
disastrous. But I went to see a movie recently that may very well defy
this fact. A fact that has been written in stone ever since Bob Hoskins
popped out of a green pipe and yelled ‘Mamma Mia!’.
This Movie is: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
Now I know it’s not a video game, all you pedantic boffins will know
it’s based on a comic book written by Bryan Lee O’Malley, but it is a
video game movie! It just is! It’s so awesome! From the moment it starts
you know it’s a video game movie. The Universal logo is presented to
you in 16-bit format with an 8-bit version of the theme. Okay movie…you
have gained your first star.
