Sucker Punch tells the story of a young girl who goes only by Baby Doll; whose abusive stepfather commits her to a mental institution that turns out to be a front for an abusive prostitution ring. As the girls practice their dance routines Baby Doll's leaves everyone in awe though we never actually get to see her dance. As soon as she starts dancing she's thrown off into a fantasy world in which her and other "patients" battle everything from World War 1 German zombies to ogres and dragons to super agile robots. These dances and fantasy sequences all lead an escape plan. Honestly, I think the subject matter alone should have constituted an R rating because it's basically a combination of the exploitation genre and all out fantasy fiction. The fantasy sequences are well done and the overall storyline is decent; Director Zack Snyder really did a great job at making the audience despise the villain; but again an R rating would have been more appropriate to intensify the girls' suffering and make the battle scenes more violent. Despite the drawbacks the story is very original and about as hardcore as a PG-13 film can get. Overall Sucker Punch was a fun film that could have been a lot better if it were just a little truer to the exploitation genre which is by no means PG-13.
Review of Sucker Punch
