The geekiest love story ever told makes the leap from paper to animation, bringing in the process all the actors who gave life to its characters, and if the original comic was an ode to video game culture, its points and geniuses take on even more nuances at a surreal pace in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. And to prove it, his most recent trailer uses the Mortal Kombat theme song as a base -and with extreme brazenness-.
Netflix has offered the last great preview prior to the premiere of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off in which it introduces its protagonists and voice actors intermingling elements of Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Bros. and Street Fighter. The whole thing is spiced up with lots of pixelated elements and dropping lots of details that will drive crazy the fans of the classics born in consoles and arcades.
Of course, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off not only relies on video game culture: we can see references to manganime (including looks and poses very Made in Japan or a Makanko Sappo of Piccolo) and the enormous musical influence that, in much of the plot, Bryan Lee O'Malley used as a common thread to shape an intense and crazy tragicomedy that comes to the small screen with Edgar Wright himself, the film's director, as executive producer.
And beware, he is not the only one who repeats and comes straight from the film: Michael Cera returns as Scott Pilgrim and, along with him, repeats in their respective roles a cast worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick or Brie Larson. This gives an additional value to a video game-like plot in which the protagonist must face the seven evil exes of his girlfriend.
