Just a quick update before I head off to Reading for 5 days.

I went to see Scott Pilgrim last night at the ICA as part of the Ultra Culture Cinema screenings. They did a great competition beforehand where members of the audience had to act out the trailer (complete with cardboard props) and whoever was the best won some prizes. They threw the leftovers into the audience and I managed to catch a tshirt! It shall become my new sleeping shirt.

The film itself was brilliant. The whole first half is pretty much copied from the comics word for word, and most of the casting was spot on. Not sure if I liked Kim as much though, she seems less constantly unimpressed in the comics? The end half had been tweaked to make it fit into the length of the film and I think it worked well. They also used a lot of clever little bits like the name labels and split screens to give it a comic book feel. On the whole it was highly enjoyable and I think I’ll be going to see it many more times!

Just a few more things to mention about it; first is the soundtrack. Beck does the Sex Bob-omb songs, Metric do The Clash At Demonhead and Broken Social Scene are Crash And The Boys. This in itself would be amazing, but there are also a whole host of other great tracks making up the soundtrack, from The Rolling Stones to Blood Red Shoes. I’m not usually one for film soundtracks, but I downloaded this one as soon as I heard the tracklisting.

Secondly, Mezco have got the toy license for the series, and have not only made some fantastically cute Ramona and Scott plushes, but a Scott figure was previewed at SDCC! No word on a release date yet for the figure, but I’m hoping they do a whole series of them.