I know you play mysterious and aloof just to avoid getting hurt

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (2010)

Chosen by me and watched as part of a brilliant interactive film club Fortune and Glory, hosted in Nottingham. This one involved taking a shot of milk when Todd's powers were lost, playing inflatable guitars when bands were performing and throwing coins in the air when Gideon explodes.

One of the most perfectly cast movies of all time (and featuring a Captain America, Superman, Captain Marvel and Punisher) with every role just filled out to perfection from Mark Webber's jittery band leader, Aubrey Plaza's censored expletive ridden hard worker, Kieran Culkin's sardonic room-mate and most especially Ellen Wong's young, naive but powerful Knives Chau (honestly i could just single out every single player and state why they are so good). She's real hero of this movie.

Scott himself, remains like the early volumes of the comic, a bit of an arsehole. His transformative arc, a major part of the latter books, is greatly truncated though still reasonable effective (Alison Pill's slight eyebrow reaction to his apology does a lot of the work). He manages to stay on the right side of annoying due to being very funny and having enough of a touch of cluelessness to make his arseholery not entirely unpalatable. 

There is a big strange imbalance, however. The film does a great job of showing how Scott and Knives are great together, we see them having a lot more fun than Scott and Ramona, which is directly referenced in the final fight with Gideon. And because the growing up aspect of his character doesn't work (the books are set over a longer period, he and Ramona live together for a year or so, have more of a connection beyond her using his dreamspace as a short cut for her delivery job) it feels strange he picks (and indeed is helped to pick by Knives) the more distant but mature partner.

That said, relationships in general do not come off great in this film, full of broken people, cheaters and stalkers.

Edgar Wright shows his complete control of the medium. One of the few comedic directors who knows how to use every tool to make a gag work, the dialogue is brilliant (having the sense to be often verbatim from the books), the editing terrific (seriously why do so few comedies look this good?) and the music, sound, special effects all in service of making it as funny and interesting as possible.