Scott Pilgrim a “game-changer” says Jason Reitman

Found on /Film and sure to be spreading across movie blogs all morning, is Jason’s Reitman’s mini-review of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, filed in the form of 5 consecutive twitters:

In London, @edgarwright showed me 30min of Scott Pilgrim. While sworn to secrecy (so much, surprised blood wasn’t demanded) I will say this: It is a game changer for Edgar and the genre. It moves the speed of light and carries more unadulterated joy than Ive seen in recent cinema. [Scott Pilgrim] does what everyone our age has been dreaming about: achieves the first all encompassing film of the joystick generation. I’m in awe of the sheer control in the filmmaking. It feels like a “Matrix” for love and how willing we are to fight for it. If I had a movie coming out next year, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near it. Hats off my friend. Can’t get it out of my head.

Pilgrim director Edgar Wright is apparently a good buddy of Reitman’s (if not in fact his avatar, judging from the doppelganger photo above), but this extravagant reaction seems to exceed a simple friendly gesture. Now I have to balance my own wavering expectations between renewed anticipation one of the sweetest gentlest comic adventures I’ve ever read and the letdown I felt when I heard Michael Cera was playing Scott Pilgrim. (To me, Anton Yelchin always felt like a better fit physically and temperamentally too.)