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Scott (played by the hip-to-be-square Cera) is a 23-year old slacker who plays bass in the surprisingly good Sex Bob-Omb - when he's not daydreaming about girls, that is. In particular, new girl in town Ramona V. Flowers (Winstead), purple-haired, roller-skated, and alluringly aloof (think Stephanie from Lazy Town, all grown up). Only trouble is, once our fumbling, mumbling anti-hero actually gets a date, he's introduced to her seven evil exes, each a martial arts master, and each ready to engage in a little manga madness with the mild-mannered, weak-limbed Scott. Who, despite the fact that he's a dreamer not a fighter, manages to go all Super Mario on their asses.
THE VERDICT: Based on Canadian Bryan Lee O'Malley's six digest-sized black and white comic novels (the last of which was released only last month), this might just be a little too cool for school. It's still a blast though.
Boasting the sort of on-screen graphics that would make Adam West hard, an actually rockin' setlist from Sex Bob-Omb (courtesy of Beck), kooky characters a-plenty (drummer Kim looking like a cross between Ellen Page and a pissed off leprechaun), witty one-liners (“If your life had a face, I'd punch it”), and just the sort of pop culture cool that you'd expect from the man who brought us Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, well, turns out, this might just be too much of a good thing. And not quite as Kick Ass as you want it to be.
Review By Paul Byrne