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Nowhere near as clever and witty as Sean of the Dead or Hot Fuzz (I don't know why you chose to compare it to those two), and Michael Cera plays Michael Cera being Michael Cera, but I enjoyed the movie anyway.
I saw it before seeing either of those. I'm comparing because it's the same director, and it's very much in the same style of "let's be as clever as possible". It's just that those two movies work very well, and Scott Pilgrim fails. They both maintain an unreal atmosphere using nothing but ridiculously fast paced editing. Pilgrim has that, but it also has the video game atmosphere, the comic book atmosphere, and the ludicrous plot in addition. It's overkill.