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Sucker Punch (2011)

Directed by Zack Snyder

Fantasy

Most recently watched by archstanton43, squeegull, elisabethwithns, jenerator, seanCduregger, noahphex, sleestakk

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

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

Viewing History (seen 3 times)

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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