Rating of
2.5/4
Dissapointing yet entertaining nonetheless
Lee - wrote on 09/24/12
I thought this would be alot better then it was. The opening segments (that best describe as a music video) were in my opinion the best parts of this film. The director should've stuck with that storyline instead of the potpouri we end up recieving. Basic newcomer Emily Browning (last seen in Lemony Snickett's A Series Of Unfortunate Events) plays Baby Doll in this, who after being framed by her evil stepfather for the murder of her younger sister, gets locked away in a local mental asylum (I know we all have a local mental asylum in all of our small towns dont we? Mine being in the very house i live in haha) after advising along with a hefty bribe to the on site man in charge to lobotomize her in an effort to silence her forever to real events surrounding her sister's death as to which he agrees, Baby Doll is left amongst the other inmates until this operation occurs.
Baby Doll ends up banding up with a gang of renegade girls Rocket (Jena Malone) Amber (Jamie Chung) Blondie ( Vanessa Hudgens) and last but not least Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish) who all become involved in an escape plan for the supposed in escapeable asylum. The director Zack Snyder (Of Watchmen fame) paints a visual portrait of once again bringing yet another graphic comicbook to life. Having the main charector Baby Doll zip in and out of her vivid imagination where she is fighting with huge Japanesque type creatures, a German army of the undead (Which brought back memories of playing C.O.D Black Ops) all the whilst these imaginations occur during everyone of Baby doll's erotic dances performed for the sick staff at the asylum. Maybe a higher rating of this film would've occurred if i had actually found and read the graphic novel first?
