I Just Got Sucker Punched

Jen and I just got back from the movies.  We went to see Sucker Punch.  I thought it looked like an imaginative, visually interesting movie.  Jen decided to go with me, even though it didn't look like her usual type of movie.  Well, we got sucker punched in our wallet.  We paid $10.75 each to see the movie and that was about $10 too much for this one.

The movie was done in the gray, dark look of the movies 300 and Watchmen (which were directed by the same person).  The movie starts with the death of the protagonist's mother which leaves her nasty step-dad in charge of her and her sister.  Dad is ticked because the daughters inherit everything and decides to molest the younger daughter (sounds logical, right?).  The protagonist (Baby Doll) goes and tries to shoot dad and ends up killing her sister.  Dad decides to take care of his problem by dropping the remaining daughter off at a mental institution.  The institution is run by a crooked dude that takes money to keep women in the place indefinitely.

In short, Baby Doll teams up with some other hot babes in the nut house to plan an escape.  The tools for the escape are all collected while Baby Doll distracts everyone with her amazing dancing (which you never get to see).  While she dances, she becomes some fantasy ninja/commando/burlesque bad ass in her head.

I have to say that this movie scored a 9.5 on the weird shit-o-meter.  The story, as you can see is messed up.  The visuals are pretty interesting, but really, who thinks up clockwork, zombie Nazies.  The movie left both of us slightly disturbed and Jen felt a little depressed.

I would really recommend giving this movie a pass.  Of course, if you have two hours that you really want to kill and there isn't a hammer around to smash into your forehead instead, you  might want to check it out.  You know a movie is bad, if five hot chicks in stockings and panties can't save it.