Sucker Punch is exactly what you think it is. A surprise hit that will send your head spinning. And this sucker punch will send you into a 110 minute coma, and will have you asking yourself at the end, What the hell just happened? and why didn't i shut this off within the first ten minutes. Oh I know, because of the five smoke shows that are dressed like hookers.
Sucker Punch is about how a girl is sent to a mental asylum for young hotties, and treated inhumanly. Upon entering this jail we then become a little confused on where the hell we actually are. We are about to witness the lobotomy of Baby doll (Emily Browning), but then we are shoved into a different story. One where the asylum is actually just a front for an underground gambling/ prostitution ring. In this story, every patient is dressed like its Halloween, and demanded to dance for the crowd of luxurious customers. When Baby Doll is forced to dance she is then thrown into a complete mind fuck of a different world where she has to fight twenty foot samurais, zombie germans, orks, fire breathing dragons, and lethal robots to gain her freedom. With the help of Sweet Pea, Rocket, Amber, and Blondie, they try to turn this pipe dream of escaping the institution into reality. But unfortunatly in the end, reality is still reality without dragons, and they are all long gone. Long gone into a vegetable state authorized by a crooked doctor. The idea behind the story is clever, but a little too wacked out to hold my attention for the whole time.
What Snyder was trying to do was tell a story where innocent young girls fight for their lives but are actually doomed no matter what they do. But the way they did it gave them enough satisfaction to deal with the mental stress the asylum put on them. In sort of a Ken Kesey Cuckoo's Nest kind of fashion, we are given a little history about the early to mid 20th century treatment of patients presumed to be insane. A truly sad story that would make for a good tale. But in this case, a fantasy world where babes can wield a katana, and pump a shotgun. Nice try, but not for me.
Starring in this movie is the beautiful lineup of Emily Browning (Baby Doll), Abbie Cornish (Sweet Pea), Jena Malone (Rocket), Vanessa Hudgens (Blondie), and Jaime Chung (Amber). A nice crew of kick ass hotties gone mental.
Grade: D- (60%)
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