Now here's an interesting specimen

Rating: 7/10 (6 April 2011)

Now when I saw the trailer for the movie, I immediately thought, "Now this is odd. Robots, dragons, and mechas occupying the same space as a hot catholic schoolgirl with a samurai sword and a pair of pistols? I might go see it" When I saw that Zack Snyder had the reins for this flick, I decided to go see it just because I watched all of his previous movies(Watchmen kicked ass and the Dawn of The Dead remake made zombies actually scary) and I wanted to know how this'll hold up to the rest of the. When I went to see it, my presumptions were partially not unfounded, the rest, well read the title of the review. This movie was actually a fairly smart, if odd movie. But enough of my rambling, onto the review.
The plot centers around a young woman named Baby Doll, a young woman who's sent to a corrupt insane asylum because of her rapist of a stepfather after her mother passed away. There she has meets the other girls and plans an escape with them. In 7 days she faces a lobotomy and that's the countdown for the movie. From there it starts getting weird.
In the movie there are three forms of reality, the one where she's in an insane asylum and everything's dark and dreary. The second is a dream world where it's in 20s burlesque house where the girls go to cope with the horror of the asylum. Finally the third one is a dream within a dream where they're a bunch of ass-kicking commandos. The second reality is where most of the movie takes place in and the third reality is when she's dancing. Before you get in a huff on how the dreams make the movie schizophrenic, but that's the whole point. Dream logic only makes sense to the one having the dream. From the perspective of Baby Doll, men except for the old guy are the villains while the women are the one's kicking ass and looking good at the same time.
In my personal opinion, I liked the movie, it's both somewhat intellectually engaging, while still being a great, if somewhat overblown(you used the slow-mo tool a wee bit too much there Zachy boy) action flick. Don't miss it.