Taglines on movie posters are iffy things.  They are there to grab your attention if the image on the poster can’t pull that off on its own, with words that are supposed to get you excited as it toots the horn of the film that might not deserve to even have a horn capable of being tooted.  Just look at the tagline for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which claims that the movie is “An epic of epic epicness.”  Pretty big tooting going on right?  Wait… Anyway… This is definitely one of those times that the tagline gives the right amount of hype that the film deserves.  It is indeed of the epic proportion.

Scott Pilgrim takes its story from a series of graphic novels created by Bryan Lee O’Malley (go read them now!), and it goes a little something like this:  Scott Pilgrim is dating a high schooler until one day a girl named Ramona Flowers comes along and becomes a strong infatuation for him.  Eventually they start dating, but in order to keep dating her he has to do much more than your average Joe.  You see, Ramona comes with the baggage of leaving a trail of victims in her wake, seven evil exes to be exact.  Now Scott Pilgrim must defeat all of them to get his happily ever after with her. [Read more...]