Captain Marvel star Brie Larson has been busy spreading the holiday spirit on YouTube. On Christmas Eve she posted a nine-minute long video singing about her followers’ hopes for 2021 to her own guitar accompaniment. She ends the video with a reprise of ‘Black Sheep’, the song she performed in kickass 2010 movie Scott Pilgrim Vs The World.
In this seriously under-rated Edgar Wright movie, Larson played Envy Adams, Scott Pilgrim’s ex-girlfriend and the lead singer of The Clash at Demonhead (which also boasts former Superman Brandon Routh on bass). It’s a stone-cold banger and her performance is a highlight of the movie.
For my money, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World making only half of its $85m budget back at the box office is one of cinema’s greatest injustices, as it’s an amazing movie with a tonne of awesome gags and shows off Edgar Wright’s many directorial talents. Since its release it’s built up a sizeable cult following, receiving praise from film scholars for its incredible editing and transmedia narrative.
This year’s tenth anniversary was set to be marked with a 4K remaster theatrical re-release, but COVID put an end to that. In the end there was an online watch party featuring the cast and crew during which they reminisced about the movie. In a retrospective article in Entertainment Weekly, Wright commented that he was still “incredibly proud of the movie. The fact that you’re not doing a 10th-anniversary article about The Expendables says it all.”
Fans of the movie have one more celebration left to come. There was a very well received video game tie-in with the movie that was removed from online storefronts in the early 2010s. But after years in the wilderness and a long fan campaign, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is now being re-released on PC and consoles on January 14, 2021.
In the meantime you can stream Scott Pilgrim vs. The World on Netflix and Prime Video, so give it a whirl. It kicks ass.
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