Excellent... on a level that most of people will not see

Rating: 9/10 (30 September 2012)

This movie is clearly "love or hate" type thing, but not for the reasons you would guess at the first sight. Many people will judge this movie unfavorably because they see it as a series of music videos. First: This is not necessarily bad thing. Second: It is very wrong to see this movie only as a series of music videos.
These "music videos" (dance / dream scenes) are very apparent, very dominant in the movie. They are really good as a "teenage guy fantasies", they are very well made, really bombastic looking. They are so dominant that many viewers will think this movie "sucks" because they will be annoyed by the idea that they are considered to be teenagers.
But these scenes are NOT important. What is important is the subtle story of a group of girls who plan to try to run from the institution where they are kept and abused. Even more, even not this story is important there, although this story of friendship and sacrifice is almost as good as The Shawshank Redemption. But The Shawshank Redemption is filmed with so obvious "humanistic" message that it is generally judged as "great" even when its characters are actually very flat and schematic.
What is the most important here is the message it is worth not to give up and fight even when your chances are slim. These girls are not "invincible", actually only one of them manages to escape, which makes this movie to be way, way more dark that most of typical "prison break" movies.
But as "The Colonel" character says, "Defend yourself!" (BTW Have you noticed this character? Do you see, how he connects all these "loose scenes" together? Please do not tell this movie has weak script! Actually it is very, very clever.) Most of the viewers will not probably ever see this elaborate plot - they will see only girls in mini skirts playing wit full auto weapons, katanas and killing ninjas, trolls and robots. But this movie is so much more better than that!