I both liked and disliked this movie... here's why

Rating: 7/10 (24 December 2011)

I will preface this by saying I probably had the worst type of experience the first time I tried watching Suckerpunch.
To cut a long story short, the first time I watched it I didn't see ANY of the middle section... that's right I saw the first 25 minutes, then the last 30 mins... and I was less than impressed. The first 25 minutes are very slow and the characters are hard to follow and flat.
I left my home and headed for my friend's house. Little did I know he was watching Suckerpunch too. "Man!" He said when I got there, "have you seen this?! Such a wild movie!" ... to which I replied... "The first 25 minutes were borrrrrrring and I couldn't figure out any of the characters properly." I watched the last 30 minutes with him and was left with a confused reaction. It certainly was not great. It also certainly was not even remotely close to the worst script or acting i've ever seen (not sure how many movies some reviewers on here have seen... Suckerpunch is shallow and flat... but not terrible).
I just finished watching all the middle parts I had not seen. I will certainly say it was not what I was expecting. There was actually some boring parts in amongst the CGI but there was also 3 moments that were truly amazing works of CGI/art direction, very well done.
To put my thoughts into concise summaries: What I disliked: The script could have been clearer, or lost completely. Really for the target market they could have cut out half of the dialogue and just added more girls dancing and killing things and that would have been fine with me. It was also taken far too seriously. If you're going to push it into fantasy dreamworlds there should be some sense of relief at some point.
What I liked: That it IS actually a movie that makes people react differently. I have friends who LOVE this movie and I have friends who can't stand it. Too many Hollywood movies try to be cookie-cutter repeats of something else (see the ludicrous amounts of prequels and sequels ... even to awful movies), at least Suckerpunch was something different.
Definitely could have been better, or worse, depending what you want out of a movie but it is different.