The Joy of Positivity pick of the day is Edgar Wright's Delightful Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

From a commercial standpoint, Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World had drawbacks, like having a protagonist played by Michael Cera who looks like he would lose a fight with a kitten.

Though Scott Pilgrim is an adaptation of a graphic novel series, its aesthetic borrows equally from video games. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is the best video game movie precisely because it's not based on any specific video game property and is therefore free to riff on the entire field.

Cera stars as the titular hero, a 22-year-old screw-up with a messy, painful romantic history that comes back to haunt him. As the movie begins, Scott is dizzy with infatuation over the new woman in his life, Knives Chau (Ellen Wong), a fantasy girl who is a giddy realization of several geek fetishes: she’s a high-schooler, Asian, and filled with guileless enthusiasm. She even wears Catholic schoolgirl garb.