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1) An interesting NPR review by Linda Holmes of the movie reviewers hating on SCOTT PILGRIM:

‘Scott Pilgrim’ Versus The Unfortunate Tendency To Review The Audience

Full disclosure: I think it’s great.

I also think it’s so heavily stylized that it’s bound not to be everyone’s favorite film. It’s not aiming to be liked by all; it’s aiming to be adored by many. If director Edgar Wright weren’t okay with the film’s being polarizing, he’d have backed off from some of its delightful little quirks.

But I have to say to those reviewing it: what’s completely unnecessary is being hostile and condescending about the target audience — and I can say that, because I’m emphatically not part of it.

After referring to the first part of the movie as a “dork-pandering assault,” The Boston Phoenix reviewer goes on to say that Michael Cera’s performance is “irritating” in part because of “the non-stop Pavlovian laugh track provided by the audience at the screening I attended.” (As far as I know, that’s a first: “You made the audience laugh, you irritating actor in a comedy, and that’s what’s wrong with you.”)

2) Spinoff Online’s Graeme McMillan reflects on how previous movies based on comics failed, for the most part, and how Scott Pilgrim could break that mold in future films.

Why Scott Pilgrim Is The Movie Comic Book Movies Should Model Themselves After
There’s something about it, the more I think about it, that makes me hope that it changes the way comic book movies are made in future, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. The key, I think, is that it’s a movie that somehow manages to exactly capture what makes Bryan Lee O’Malley’s comics work, and yet it never feels like anything less than a celebration of filmmaking, and an example of the potential of the movie medium.

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