Sucker Punch
Thanks to the beautiful people at Newworlds.PH, I got 2 tickets to the advanced screening of Zack Snyder’s new flick, Sucker Punch. I’ve been looking forward to this movie ever since I first saw Gentle Giant’s solicitation photos from the last years big toy cons. Those statues of Baby Doll, Amber, and Sweet Pea still make me drool. When the posters arrived on the Net, they just whet my appetite for this movie. The anticipation levels really started boiling over and in the back of my mind, I thought there’s no way this film can live up to it’s tagline: “You will be unprepared.”
Thankfully, that little voice was wrong.
People like to go on and on about how plots these days aren’t that original, but given that we’ve been around for so long now, most every story’s been told. I’ll tell you right now that this movie is heavily derived from other flicks of the past decade like the Matrix movies, Lord of the Rings, even last year’s Inception (though I think that’s more coincidence or parallel creative processes than anything).
The beauty of the excercise is though, Snyder and his team have taken pieces of those movies and countless geek conventions and turned out the most perfect piece of fan service you’ve ever seen. Huge action set pieces, period costumes, dastardly bad guys, robot armies, giant demon samurai, dragons, orcs, kick ass heroines with pistols, swords, axes, bazookas, assault rifles, and motherfuckin’ amp suits. And did I mention that the acctresses spend half the movie in lingerie?
It really is a shame that there aren’t any action figures available for this franchise. I would buy the shit out of a NECA line with the 5 principles featured in it. Sweet Pea with her weapon shouldered, Rocket with her Gunkata moves, Baby Doll with a chain gun, Blondie with her hatchet, and Amber in the cockpit of her Bunny Mech. Imagine that on your desktop. Sweet!
The movie’s synopses online are pretty much accurate. It’s the story of an abused young woman who, unjustly locked away in an insane asylum, creates a fantasy world for herself to escape. Sort of Alice in Wonderland meets Dark City.
To help her on her quest, Alice (Baby Doll played by Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events’ Emily Browning), has a fire team of 4 mental patients; Abbie Cornish as Sweet Pea, Jena Malone as Rocket, Venessa Hudgens as Blondie, and the unbelievably hot Jamie Chung as Amber.
The rest of the cast includes both Scott Glenn hamming it up as Baby Doll’s imaginary friend, and Carla Gugino with the most appaling accent this side of Val Kilmer’s Saint (I love that film). Oscar Isaac as the despicable Blue Jones makes a great showing as well. While I don’t think that this will win any Oscars, the performances were evocative and effective.
They were helped along by the great sound track as well, which blended some great tracks like “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” and “Where is My Mind” with Emily Browning’s haunting voice. I’m definitely adding this CD to my wants list.
While it’s no Shakespeare, and while we’ve seen alot of this dream within a dream stuff before, Sucker Punch really does it for me. I’m very excited to see it for the second time once it’s out on March 25th. The fight scenes alone, with Snyder’s trademark ramped up/slowed down editing, are worth the price of admission.
The rest is just icing.
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