SUCKER PUNCH
April 10th 2011 01:57
Director: Zack Snyder
Stars: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Carla Cugino, Oscar Isaac, John Hamm
ROADSHOW
SUCKER PUNCH defies categorisation. Equal parts drama, action thriller and fantasy, it’s a little jarring at first, but only because it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before.
For such a multi-layered film, the storyline is devastatingly simple. Sent to a corrupt mental institution by her evil stepfather and threatened with a lobotomy, Baby Doll (Browning) plots her escape with some of the other female inmates.
However, before she can actually get out of the asylum, the tiny blonde must first escape the bleak reality she’s facing.
To do this, she creates an alternate universe that transforms the asylum into a ritzy brothel where the girls live in fear of a brutal man named Blue (a dodgy doctor in the real world).
With the help of Sweet Pea (Cornish), Rocket (Malone), Blondie (Hudgens) and Amber (Chung), Baby Doll concocts a plan that involves her doing a series of mesmerising erotic dances to distract her captors. We never see the dances, but what we get in their place might be even better. Whenever she prepares to bust a move, BD imagines herself and her fellow babes fighting visually stunning battles against incredible enemies, such as robots, dragons and, my personal favourite, steampunk World War I zombies!
It’s great to see writer-director Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) challenging the Hollywood status quo and trying something different. It doesn’t always work, but for the most part Sucker Punch is terrific entertainment with a positive message of self-empowerment at its core.
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