These days, it is the geek which roams the earth, with knowledge of various sounds and catchphrases from things gone by, own countless devices which cook an egg, does the shopping and clean your teeth at the same time, and either incredibly skinny or have developed many fat folds, which are actually used to store snacks which don’t mind being a little bit moist.

Strangely Hollywood have been somewhat reluctant to give the audience a film which, outside of zombie films, fully acknowledges while they are awkward, and at times stupid, they are also very funny.

Enter Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World

ROUND 1: FIGHT!

So to the story spoiling bit which we begin every review with, much to the annoyance of many.

Here we’re introduced to the main character, Scott Pilgrim, a skinny fella living in Toronto with a gay bloke, even sharing the same bed, with various T-shirts of suitably sad yet cool origin, who is being constantly mocked for going out with a 17 year old Japanese girl while he is 22.

While if they were in this country they’d already have 23 kids and live in a mansion if you were to believe the press, in Canada, like the US, until people turn 18, potential naughty situations with school kids are still a sort of taboo, so we’ll just move past that and get to the nub of the matter.

Scott’s in a musical band of weirdos, Sex Bomb-omb, his sister spends so much time on the phone question all of Scott’s actions after being informed of them by the gay room-mate, she may as well have it sellotaped to her head, and thus now knowing the scene with the characters, we now have the scene set to bring on the main event.

The whole thing actually is a pretty simple love story to start with, which means for sad people like me, it’s borderline making me want to cry knowing I’ll not get that sort of thing, bastard….

A sexy woman comes on with Pink hair or that bird from the TV programme Caprica and captures our hero’s heart while destroying everything the 17 year old was trying to do, or really captures our hero’s junk to use as she would see fit, well if she did want to use them that is. What would men and women do in a relationship?

ROUND 2: It’s the club singer round…..

So far so good, love blooms etc.

But as with all good love stories, there has to be some fight to win the woman you love. It’s just that on this occasion, you end up having to fight for the woman you love literally, against evil ex lovers, with various fighting powers, as you do. And that is when the whole film lurches into overdrive with gusto.

The film then really becomes a full on video game, with various boss fights, all culminating in an epic battle where getting a life had never been so important.

Just before a major fight starts, like all those over the top fighting games where you’re meant to hammer buttons on a joypad before throwing it through the window, you get “VS” flash on the screen, KO flashing up when the fight is over, and you wonder if you can get this on your telly at home.

At times with the special effects, it’s reminiscent of a fireworks display being sick all over your best trousers, but at no point do you feel you’ve had enough.

It’s fast paced enough, well faster with Dragonball Z inspired fighting, not to linger on any one moment beyond it’s life, but also allows for some order to seep into the film and the cast are all nothing short of fantastic. The direction appears to want to make sure you’re not bored at any point, and to be honest at times, you may need a breather from it all. As you might not be fully sure what just happened!

Even Superman manages to steal the show by being vegan. Yes, being vegan. Apparently cutting meat from your diet means you gain super powers. Who knew?

ROUND 3: DOUBLE KILL!

It just never really stops from the first battle that the film throws in almost ever game convention going, including gaining coins from defeating enemies and “levelling up”.

In essence we finally have a film for my supposed dull, lifeless generation, so obsessed with gaming etc, that we will talk in code. No we don’t, we do the same things, just with great 8-bit sound effects from the 80s and shit conversational skills.

Unlike the Expensables, this film actually did entertain all the way through, even if it was a load of rubbish you could argue, it was the best rubbish I had witnessed with my poor now older eyes this year, and indeed one of those I’d actually pay to see again, if only for the end boss fighting where everyone learns a lesson and is a better person after all the silliness that went on. And to do it with so much style is well….damned good.

For once I’m happy to write this, I’ve left a lot out of the review, because until you see Scott Pilgrim fight the world, you won’t believe that this has been one of the film highlights of the year so far.