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Scottingham Pilgrim has not the only movie I saw recently. If I had to pick another film I saw recently, it would probably be The Other Guys, because I saw that one in the theater a week or so ago.

It, too, was really damn good.

In a completely different way from Scott Pilgrim, though. I would describe Scott Pilgrim as “Awesome” while The Other Guys was “Hilarious.” Granted, there were moments of awesome and hilarious in both. That’s just the general feeling of the two.

I knew practically nothing going into this film, but apparently it’s one of the first films that really brought back together all the people who made Anchorman great, and it shows. The writing in this movie is excellent. There is a really smart comedic mind at work here, using things like refbacks and running gags in a completely effective and not annoying way. For example, the joke in the title is funny on it’s own (well, in context anyway, maybe not as a title) and only gets referenced one more time, to great effect. The movie doesn’t need to use the same jokes over and over again, because they’ve got plenty of them. They’re only bringing them out when they’re most effective.

It’s not all perfect, of course. The plot of this film is nearly non-existent. Anchorman had a plot, although a stupid one. In this movie, they’re trying to stop some sort of scheme, but they don’t know what, and you the audience don’t know what, and it’s incredibly vague. Doesn’t stop it from being entertaining, of course, but at the end of the film you may be scratching your head, wondering what exactly happened, now that you think about it. On top of that, the credits sequence is completely weirdly serious in giving you stats about actual white collar crimes, which is just strange and completely out of place. Did the makers of this movie really think they were being political in some way? I have no idea.

If you’re going to see one film in the theater, see Scott Pilgrim. It’s full of visual pizazz and pop that just looks great on the big screen. However, you really should see The Other Guys. It contains humor all the way through that won’t imbalance your humors. I was laughing pretty well constantly through the entire movie. It had been awhile. It felt great. It was a great film.