Based on the Canadian graphic novel series, the movie is romantic in that a lot of the plot evolves around the relationship of title character Scott Pilgrim and two love interests. Basic plot stuff, right? Yeah well, that's the only basic thing about the movie; every thing else belongs to the realm of Fantasy, Adventure, Action and Comedy.
One of the love interests has a League of Evil Exes which Scott must defeat in order to gain the right to date her. At the same time, Scott must decide which of his two love interests he actually wants to date, and along the way, embarks on a sort of self-discovery quest (which, given he's in his twenties, is long overdue) where he comes to understand people and himself better.
With pretty much every single geek reference one can pack into a hundred and twelve minutes.
(Seriously. It's mind-boggling how much detailed geek references is packed into it.)
What makes this movie brilliant is how true to the books it remains, retaining all the visual and interactive onomatopoeia and gaming rules that exists in the book. Combined with a diverse cast of rich and strongly written characters, the movie re-creates the bizarrely fantastic and fun world of books, and yet pulls it off to be believable without losing a spark of excellence to it's plot and characters.
In short, this movie is awesome and lives up to it's tagline "An epic of epic epicness". I recommend it to.... pretty much everyone who wants funny and fantastic taken to a new level.
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