Visually stunning but nothing more

Rating: 6/10 (22 September 2013)

Baby Doll (Emily Browning) has an abusive stepfather and she is sent away to a mental institution to undergo a lobotomy. Then the movie goes into Baby Doll's imagination as she and four other girls Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), Rocket (Jena Malone), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), and Amber (Jamie Chung) battle wild creations of her imaginations. The base 'real' story is creepy, ugly and depressing. It had potential but that's not the meat of this movie. Zack Snyder has created every boys' fantasy with scantily clad girls doing acrobatics using big weapons. That's the meat and it's visually stunning. Ultimately it's all meaningless, and the being visually stunned only last so long. In the end, this movie makes for great movie stills but not a great movie.