Suckerpunch





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After accidentally shooting her younger sister, Babydoll is committed and scheduled to have a lobotomy (which terrifyingly used to be a mainstream treatment for over 2 decades)  At this point she slips into a double fantasy world one where she's trapped in a brothel and from there into a computer game world with boss fights.

This highly stylised film has no humor, likable characters or soul much like the soundtrack with it's horrible cover versions of great songs like Sweet Dreams, Where is my Mind and White Rabbit. This would actually be no problem if you were simply watching it for escapist action but it includes such sleazy depictions of men and such a vapid main protagonist, who looks like a blow up doll, that this just doesn't sit right.

Some of the design is cool, I like the mobile phone charm embellished gun and rabbit faced robot, Zach Snyder is obviously inspired by manga and I'm sure there will be plenty of Baby Doll costumes for Halloween/cosplay.

NO - anime Virginia Andrews novel for the PS3