The Reel Rejects - SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF EPISODE 1 REACTION!! 1x1 Breakdown & Review | Netflix Anime

Episode Date: November 18, 2023

SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD Gets The Anime Netflix Series Treatment! Scott Pilgrim Takes Off 1x01 Reaction, Recap, Breakdown, Analysis, Commentary, and Spoiler Review for many side-by-side comparisons to the feature film & perhaps the manga. The series is produced by Edgar Wright and sees the returning cast of Michael Cera, Ramona Flowers Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Wallace Wells Kieran Culkin (Succession), Lucas Lee Chris Evans (Captain America, Fantastic Four), Stacey Pilgrim Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect), Envy Adams Brie Larson (The Marvels), Julie Powers Aubrey Plaza (Parks & Recreation), Todd Ingram Brandon Routh (Superman) Gideon Graves Jason Schwartzman (Every Wes Anderson Movie), Johnny Simmons Young Neil (Jennifer's Body), Mae Whitman Roxy Ritcher, Ellen Wong Knives Chau, Satya Bhabha Matthew Patel, & The Voice Bill Hader (Barry.) Here's our reaction to the best / funny scenes/action scenes. This made for a very fun reaction since we never did a trailer reaction, but had done a First Time Watching for the movie earlier this year! #ScottPilgrim #ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld #ScottPilgrimTakesOff #Netflix #MichaelCera #BrieLarson #CaptainMarvel #barbie #barbiemovie #ken #maryelizabethwinstead #AubreyPlaza #AnnaKendrick #youtubersreact #reaction Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Aparrel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM: FB:   / thereelrejects   INSTAGRAM:   / reelrejects   TWITTER:   / thereelrejects   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I love the contrast. I mean, I love how it complements and contrasts with the movie and brings at least the vague amount I'm familiar with from the source material to life and then brings its own style on top of that, you know? Yeah, man. I thought the animation was great. I love me some animated properties. You know, sometimes I look at our shirts and I go, wow, what you can do when you combine live action with animated counterport. and pot party. www.

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Most of his limbs have been retrofitted with machinery. We've removed a pain sensor in his brain. He's a husk now. A merchandising husk. On a lighter note. On a lighter note, I did think this was a very impressive ethereal experience that had such a softer hue about the whole tone to it. Because, yeah, it's like you expect from just knowing the live action counterpart where it's already very expressive and you're like, wow, look at all these like video game and anime influences when you're watching the live action one. You don't only expect it to go kind of more bonkers with its expression.

yet I actually feel like pace-wise and tonal-wise they dialed some of that back so you actually get a great balance otherwise it just could have been an overstimulating experience and maybe they're going to get crazier as it goes I don't really know but what was fun was watching okay yeah like some stuff we've seen in the live action because live action ones adapting the it's pretty faithful from what I understand to the parts of the novels

that it's adapting in But you got to find a structure within a movie. Yeah. And condense things. Yeah. So versus here where some stuff might feel like, oh, this is coming a lot earlier than maybe I was expecting it to come. But then it surprises you with, oh, we're cutting to this origin of things. And like seeing Gideon very early on or getting the introduction of the league, it's fun seeing the surprises and how they sort of let it unfold.

And it's like I like watching the contrasting differences, too, between Scott's world where he does feel more. innocent i think that is one of the biggest critiques i think of the film experiences scott seems like a very unlikable guy it is a real journey to him becoming yeah a more soft likable character yeah it's like the world of scott pilk it's like he's you like him because he's funny um but he's very much immature and needs to come of age and and be humble and he seems like an asshole yeah maybe he'll become more of an assholes but hear him like this seems like a sweet kid it's probably making some like not so great i mean he's 23 but he seems like a kid

Yeah, he seems a little more, a bit more innocent in the precariousness that he finds himself in. Absolutely. But I thought this was a beautiful experience, and I love, I love, like, the visual language of how it differs in so many ways in what I was expecting. Like, there's a lot of these, like, downward shots that really emphasize how much larger than life a lot of this is. Like, a lot of the camera comes from below. Yeah, yeah, yeah, looking up at various things and really kind of enhancing perspectives and stuff like that. like yeah it's funny this is going to be like the most expanding experience because once all this visual you know moving media is done i will finally read the the stories but but it makes me want to go read the manga uh comic but you know i don't know which terminology we accept for where it was published but yeah it really nicely contrasts and i think you said that thing about the movie uh i can't remember exactly what you said but you drew a comparison and that this being animation almost normalizes some of the more stylized elements and makes it feel more breathable anyway.

And I think that some of it is them deliberately making something that has a more gradual, airy tone. And just in this format, that's kind of striking to me because I feel like this is bringing the slice of lifeness about this and the sort of malaise of just being in the age group that these people are and concerns that they have. and that provides a nice contrast so that when the more anime-specific flourishes and the video game ones to kick in like they're especially kind of

bright and captivating and I think the movie it's weird it's like they're both using anime and video game stylization as part of the fun of their style but there is something that does feel different about this iteration of that than the movie and I feel

like where the movie maybe while it has a lot of anime stuff kind of leans a bit more video game to me. I feel like this will then lean a bit more anime and have the video game stuff be a bit more of a garnish. Well, the other one really felt the live action feels still like an

Edgar Wright movie. Yeah. This does not feel like an Edgar Wright show. It doesn't feel like a watching egg right. Yeah, but in a good way. Because Edgar Wright was taking inspiration from something and I'm sure like he's got fingerprints and his DNA in here still. Yeah.

aware it's here i'm just absorbing the world because the writing feels different the yeah the execution feels different and beyond just hey we're looking at an animated versus a live action the actual execution of the store it's it's like when you watch like a different type of restructuring placement of events where you choose to put your focus like even by this point in in not i don't i've look it's it's a room it's it's it's some people might get annoyed by the amount of like kind of comparing to the movie but I think there's going to be millions of millions people across the world

doing it right now. It's fun contrasting without going it's not the movie and I'm mad it's different when you're like oh this is cool that they compliment and contrast each other. Yeah yeah and like you said it is actually making me want to read the actual source material because

of looking at this and it makes you go oh how different is it? And I like watching these differences unfold like I think the voice actors are great, so much to the point where I'm not hearing a celebrity talking. Yeah, he feels like the characters.

I thought that's what it would feel like. Yeah, but I think that's the nice primer is like you have this sort of sense memory in the back of your mind of like, I've heard all these people be these characters before. But then, yeah, it is so animation forward. The performance is feel different though. Yeah, and I think that's a beautiful thing.

And Edgar Wright is involved in this, but I think it is a beautiful thing about letting, you know, I'm sure Brian Lea O'Malley, he's, you know, the credited, He's clearly writing and authoring and co-writing these and heavily, you know, involved with the authorship and whoever the directors are as well. Like, I think it's, again, it makes me want to go back to the source material and see how... Before I lose this thought, I have to interrupt you. I think I know what feels different about it.

I think the movie, the biggest voice about that movie is the style. Yes. And here, I'm actually really feeling all the emotional undertones. Oh, 100%. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like there, there is that stuff, but the movie is really dazzling you, and it's also, like, breaking ground for a bunch of other things. Like, quirky and fast, and, and, and, and, and here I'm like, oh, I'm really feeling the emotion, and I don't quite think of that when I think of the movie. Yeah, you know, this lets you sit in the space, and it takes time for these interludes.

And even though it is compact, it's not that long, like, I think the full kind of 27, 28 minute experience allows you to have these interludes that are quite beautiful. like when they they have things that are fleeting but very beautiful when they're in the park together and then you know

that leads up it's like a nice just back and forth scene and it's very beautiful but kind of sparse and then they take the you know space tunnel

back to her house and even the scene between them in the house yeah you just you kind of feel the cold and you feel you know

the kind of want for the warmth of the bed and the warmth of intimacy and yeah it's like it's fascinating to think of those things

and now I'm curious to go and look and see, okay, so how did the source material represent this emotionality and how did it represent the stylized homages to all the pop culture stuff that we love? Well, you said warmth because yeah, like saying, feeling the warmth,

I'm like, well, actually emotionally, that's I feel the heart, I feel the warmth of these characters more, even though you know, some of the more, I'm sure the asshole or re-sides will come through. Right now, I I'm endeared to the characters and not

in a way where I'm just kind of observed. and really enjoying and giddy. It's strange. And I thought it would be the antithesis. I thought this would be way more style.

Like a fun sugar rush, but what I've left with now is like the tonality and the atmosphere and the feeling of it. It's weird. It's like this has, even this is more in gay.

This is not a slight whatsoever, but in a way, you could kind of just like put this on and chill to this. And there is something also too about the combination of the voices the animation because

the animation like I am kind of in endeared and impressed by only in that I guess in you know we live in a world

with like stuff like what if which I really like in lots of ways but you know that's clearly like computer animated with some nods

to what handron stuff looks like whereas I don't know I guess something that's produced by Netflix here I'm a little bit like are they going to go

full on with how the animation production values are presented and here I don't know I mean this could all be done in a computer it probably is but this has the look and feel at least to me of something that has that

hand-drawn anime tangibility to it and I think the modern ways in which they you mentioned the stereoscoping like the way they represent depth of field and camera glass and stuff like that through these stylized things

especially in like a post spiderverse world is like really lovely. And this is reminding me of like other graphic novels or other animation, not wholesale, but just in the way that they feel kind of tangible and not like the exact aesthetic. It's nice because this harkens

to anime and it has a lot of the, you know, color and line work that evokes that, but this also has the benefit of the book's art style, which is inspired by that, but is also kind of adapting that, you know, and kind of colliding it. I feel like, I don't know exactly,

but I feel like, the anime is, Brian Lee O'Malley, like, is in America, right? Like, he's not in Japan. I don't know. But I always- He sounds Japanese. It feels like, well, you know, he sounds like a guy who comes from a mixed background, and certainly this is about, you know, like Canadians hanging out in Canada. So there feels like a kind of melding of traditions in terms of the animation. That is certainly skewing way more anime.

But, yeah, it has something that seems concerned with the art. being kind of beautiful and ethereal also. Well, I felt like there was a little bit more, in the live action, a little bit more entitlement and snobbery in some of their characters. And here what I thought was neat is we can talk about the characters and I don't like

it. Yeah, they're a little more edgy. But it's a bit more of a cynicism to the approach of the characters, I would say. And the world of the characters. And that supports the whip crack tone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the contrast of that. the what was cool about the structure here of introducing the league and a you need that for a show

because like in the movie it's it's like a surprise like whoa this came out of nowhere and it's a surprise and then the action happens you're like what the hell and it's supposed to have that effect and i think what was different about the vibe here is a not going through knives chow or so early on yeah and and and letting you just get so acquainted with like man he's a dick in this relationship and so you're just you're just connected to the romance to him and romona and then having the introduction of the villains or the tease of them which does feel like anime demonic kind of villainy with the evil and the eyes stuff but what's really cool about that is then you have a threat to the relationship yeah as opposed to just a fun game you're going to go through well yeah you've

got the compounding of like oh the stakes are already high because they're both here and now we're going to get multiple reveals you know because yeah her Ramona's pass is going to be revealed to some extent and also i mean you know scott is small change on the floor right now so you know that knives going to have some to say about that i didn't think we'd have so much to say about the first episode i thought we'd have to like kind of subtle with it but hey we got uh seven more of these to go through uh but i'm i'm on board for the journey man i'm on board for the journey uh that took me a surprise in a way i really wasn't expecting yeah this this like i thought it was just going to be like fun this fed me more than like you know like I'm already excited and I'm

already like inclined towards liking it and this engaged me well beyond that in ways I wasn't expecting it to along with all the stuff I understand to be the earmarks of this so like I'm I'm just surprised that yeah it's like especially because Netflix is getting into making more anime I'm like this actually gives me a lot of hope for that thousand percent thousand percent feels really crafted and that's beautiful all right guys well what did you think about this um i'm sure you guys already done with the series if we're watching this reaction but let us know your thoughts down in the comments and uh keep a lookout for our reaction to uh episode dose i'll try to get these out every other day hopefully we have holidays coming up so please be patient

and if we fall behind a little bit on schedule but thank you so much we'll talk to you all soon Thank you.