Good ol' Cathy Fisher has started up this website where she (and others) discuss heady issues in comedy today. She's graciously extended me the opportunity to contribute to her site, and I finally took up that noble cause today with a discussion about what makes the new film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World so awesome.
My main point in the post is that Scott Pilgrim belongs to that special fraternity of comedies that goes well outside the standard format, and discusses it as a spiritual successor to the likes of Annie Hall and Crank 2: High Voltage without looking derivative itself.
I hope I don't come off as pretentious, but that's really how I felt. I was sitting in my car, at the 88 Drive-In and thought "this must have been what it was like when Annie Hall premiered."
What I didn't talk about was how the original comic series by Bryan Lee O'Mally stacks up against director Edgar Wright's vision of the story. That's a discussion for another day -- if ever, because the source v. movie discussion particularly tiresome. I will say that Wright's movie is very much his own vision, and stands apart from the books in a very good way.
Anyhow, go read this thing I wrote, and go see Scott Pilgrim vs. The World because America needs more movies like this.
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