20 Things You Didn't Know About Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
15. Everybody In The Movie Is Under 30 (Except The Vegan Police)
Perhaps it shouldn't surprise people that Scott Pilgrim didn't reach audiences across all age groups, given that the movie has an aversion to over-30s that is positively Logan's Run-esque.
Literally every character who gets a name and a credited actor is aged somewhere between the youngest cast member, Brie Larson (who turned 20 between production and the film's release), and the oldest, Brandon Routh (who turned 30 at the same time). So why should anyone born before 1980 really get it?
Amongst a hot young cast of twenty-somethings, Michael Cera was actually younger than the 22 year-old character that he played (as well as younger than Ellen Wong, playing his still-in-high-school girlfriend).
The one exception to Scott existing in a world of perpetual arrested development, seemingly hermetically sealed from either kids or proper adults, is the uncredited cameo from Clifton Collins Jr. and erstwhile Punisher Thomas Jane.
A good decade older than all their castmates, Collins and Jane show up as the Vegan Police arresting illicit dairy consumer Todd, so perhaps it's their refusal of meat products that's given them the superpower to still exist in a world without over-30s.