SUCKER PUNCH

Here's the second trailer for Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. It's his first feature from an original story after he adapted 300 and Watchmen. We learn that Baby Doll (Emily Browning) witnesses her stepfather murdering her sister, so he has her locked up in a mental institution. While there, she meets the rest of the inmates who collectively form a means to escape. The Wiseman (Scott Glenn) gives them instructions on how to orchestrate such a feat. It appears to involve the extraction of various, random objects.

Now, this is when it starts to get weird. Baby Doll and the rest of the team: Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), Amber (Jamie Chung), Rocket (Jena Malone) seem to converge in an alternate reality where they can do outlandish things such as jump from tall buildings and become insanely good at wielding swords and other weapons.



Some things I noticed stuffed into the 2 1/2 minute trailer:

• dragons
• zeppelins
• robots with guns
• foxholes
• catapults
• biplanes
• an ogre
• the coup de grâce: a 20-ft stone samurai with a colossal gatling gun

You certainly can't fault Snyder for a lack of creativity. My only fear is that this will turn out to be like a children's painting: where they just take a bunch of colours and splash it on the canvas.

Sucker Punch arrives March 25th, 2011.