What unifies all of the varying styles and recordings is the filmmakers' innate understanding of music and how much importance it carries in a film, especially a film as entrenched in the indie scene as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. As a general rule, non-score soundtracks of comic book movies aren't very good. I love the first couple Spider-Man movies as much as the next comics geek, but their Nickelback/Dashboard Confessional-riddled soundtracks weren't what I'd call inspiring. With Scott Pilgrim, we might have the first authentically great comic book soundtrack on our hands.
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