SSC Film Studies

People Over 30 Don't Get It

“Because the movie's marketing was such an accurate representation of the film I think it's fair to say that most of the people who saw ads for it had a pretty good idea of what they were going to see. And they didn't want to see it. In particular people over the age of 30 didn't want to see it. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is basically about a group of twenty-something douche bags. It's a movie about the kinds of individuals anyone over 30 with a job would like to see introduced to a cattle prod. Seriously, you're out there working for a living, you've got two screaming kids, do you really want to go spend your hard-earned money watching a kid whine about how he has to be in bands and stuff and hang out a lot? Probably not. It looked like a movie about kids, for kids, and to some extent that's true. Scott Pilgrim revels in the slacker generation and even though, in the end, it's sort of a movie about growing up and if you stick with it the whole thing comes together into something brilliant… for the most part its happy to be about lazy, narcissistic, 20-year-old hipsters. And if you're over 30, that just ain't cool.”

I agree with the fact that Scott Pilgrim does come across as a film for kids, it is based on a comic book and therefore the audience should be comic book fans, who don’t tend to be out of their teens.
Anyone who as matured and got a full time job or just didn’t have the whole “I don’t know what to do in life but I’m in a band” phase is likely to just get annoyed about how Scott pilgrim is moaning about how life is hard when all he seems to do is go to parties, hang out in cool clubs, do gigs and juggle two attractive women.