SUCKER PUNCH
| 28 March 2011
We all piled in the car and went to see this new phenomenon. I waited for the "Punch" and it came in an appropriate manner, speaking as a writer, but the movie as a whole was wanting. It is about a little woman (still a teen) who is put into an insane asylum and scheduled for a lobotomy. "Baby Doll" (her new nickname) works through this by going into a daydream. Within the daydream she is pulled into another daydream while she 'dances'. We are told Guardian Angels come to help you and I assumed Scott Glen played that guardian angel in the form of "grasshopper you must...." which was cool. However, whenever she was set a quest, she went in, fought, killed and came out. Where was the learning? Where was the translation into the dream and then into reality. We never saw the 'dance' that kept all the character's attention while she went into the second daydream. I was disappointed not to see her learn. She was small and weak and so therefore how could she beat the bad orderly, the cowered psychiatrist and finally the doctor giving the lobotomy. I don't think it would be too much to find a way to outsmart and outfight the bad guys. Each event Baby Doll just fought and got the package. Yes she had to make a sacrifice but only peripherally to the fighting. The music was good, the actors were good but that script lacked the key from which all the rest of the action and dialogue rested upon. Too Bad!
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