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Rating: 6 stars

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Seen on: 03/27/2011

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Sucker Punch (2011)

Directed by Zack Snyder

Fantasy

Most recently watched by jenerator, noahphex, sensoria

Overview

A young girl, institutionalised by her abusive stepfather, retreats to an alternative reality as a coping strategy and envisions a plan to help her escape.

Rated PG-13 | Length 110 minutes

Actors

Scott Glenn | Ron Selmour | Richard Cetrone | Carla Gugino | Jena Malone | Oscar Isaac | Ian Tracey | Peter James Bryant | Gerard Plunkett | Abbie Cornish | Malcolm Scott | Alan C. Peterson | Cainan Wiebe | Michael Adamthwaite | Jon Hamm | Vanessa Hudgens | Emily Browning | Jamie Chung | John R. Taylor | Patrick Sabongui | Monique Ganderton | Phillip Mitchell | Brad Kelly | Christine Willes | Chris Nowland | Revard Dufresne | Lee Tomaschefski | Eli Snyder | Gary A. Hecker | Kelora Clingwall | Frederique De Raucourt | Danny Bristol | Allie Bertram | Sean Campbell | Maiko Miyauchi | Daniela Dib | Paula Giroday | Jeff Dimitriou | Vicky Lambert | Danielle Benton | Louise Hradsky | Juliana Semenova | Chantal Hunt | Gina Garenkooper | Caroline Torti | Caitlin Goguen | Carla Catherwood | Kathryn Schellenberg | Annie Au | Tia Haraga | Hailley Caulfield | Stephanie Sy | Arassay Reyes | John Howard | Thomas Fornataro | Antoine Baby Harry Calaway | G! Force | Nii Nortey Engmann | Geneen Georgiev

Viewing Notes

Sooooo much hatred for this movie from critics made me want to see it even more. I’m not a contrarian Armond White movie schlub, but having enjoyed Snyder’s 300 and Watchmen a lot, I felt like I was going to like this going in.

To be sure, the film feels like it misses the target Snyder was aiming for, but I still felt it was enjoyable and a good movie. Not great, but good.

I guess my biggest issue was the lack of subtlety, which seems like a bit of an insult to the audience. I had no problems picking up the plot elements and the underlying (overarching?) theme, so the last voice over did seem a bit pandering and heavy handed.

Visually, the movie was exactly what one would expect from Zack Snyder, which leads to my other complaint. There is so much emphasis on visual style that it does tend to flatten the effect of some of the scenes. Things really start to blur and the action scenes never seem to be allowed to really reach heights of tension or excitement that one would expect.

I was also disappointed that the dancing scenes weren’t there. It almost felt as if they’d been chopped out. I fully expect to see a director’s cut of this some day with a lot more content.

I really didn’t understand the cries of porn and exploitation. I felt that the costumes and “objectification” of the females in the movie were fairly restrained and tastefully done. None of the main protagonists were wearing thongs and there were no gratuitous upskirt shots; Transformers II was more pornographic and adult-themed than this movie by far.

We went to this as a family, and going in I did have some concerns for my two sons, since the back story here references some fairly adult themes. Again, I felt everything was handled well and tastefully done for a PG-13 movie.

My kids can handle, and have been exposed to, R-rated movies depending on the content, but some sexually themed things still embarrass and annoy them, which is easy to understand given their ages. They had no problems with Sucker Punch.

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