10 Most Underrated Movies Of The 2010s

Edgar Wright has delivered some of the best high-concept comedies of the last few decades and this is no exception. Scott Pilgrim sees the director at his most inventive, adapting the acclaimed manga into film with breathtaking beauty and commitment to the source material.

Telling the story of a perpetual nerd, Scott Pilgrim, and his doomed love story with Ramona Flowers, the film chronicles Scott's struggle to defeat Ramona's seven evil exes so that he can be with her. Managing a sprawling ensemble cast of then-up-and-comers, the film has highly stylized action sequences and sidesplitting jokes to spare.

But timing was not on this film's side. Starring Michael Cera as its lead, the film came at the tail end of a period of several years in which Cera was seemingly in everything, and audiences had grown tired of his schtick. Nevermind the fact that Pilgrim had him stretching his acting muscles in ways he never had before, all movie-goers saw was his face on the poster and this film became the straw that broke the camel's back.

The film flopped and never got the chance to have the box office success it so rightfully deserved.