Sucker 'packs little and no' Punch

Rating: 4/10 (23 June 2011)

I thought this would be a lot better then it was. the opening segments (that best describe as a music video) were, in my opinion , the best parts of this film, and the director shouldve stuck with that storyline making it a revenge film instead of the potpourri that we end up receiving! Basic newcomer Emily Browning (Lemony Snickett's a Series Of Unfortunate Events) plays Baby Doll in this, who after being framed by her evil step father for the killing of her younger sister, gets locked away in the local mental institute (I know we all have the local institute in our towns don't we? Mine being at my house) After advising, and a hefty bribe to the the on site man in charge to lobotomize her in an effort to 'silence' her from telling the real events of what happened to her sibling, she is left alone amongst the other crazies.
She befriends a band of renegade girls in the form of Rocket (Jena Malone) Amber (Jamie Chung) Blondie (Vannessa Hudgens) and Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish) and gets them all involved in an escape plan to the UN-escapable institute. The director (Zack Snyder, Watchmen) paints a visual portrait of once again bringing yet another graphic comic book to life. Having the main character zip in and out of her very vivid imagination, warring with huge japan like creatures, a German army of the undead (reminded me so much of a video game i once played) all the whilst back in reality these fight occur during one of Baby Doll's erotic dances. Maybe i would've given this a higher rating if i had actually read the graphic novel/comic first? However I am not into them