History Film / SuckerPunch

''Sucker Punch'' is an action/fantasy/horror/thriller movie directed by ZackSnyder about a young girl's planned escape from an insane asylum and... well, have a look at the tropes. It's highly stylized and highly self-aware, and deals with escapism in all its different forms: referencing practically every movie and video game under the sun, the film is a celebration of the idea that TropesAreNotBad... or alternatively an over-produced misogynistic MindScrew pretending to be about female empowerment. [[YourMileageMayVary Critics are split.]]

* StockScream: There is a Wilhelm Scream in one of the action sequences.

''Sucker Punch'' is an action/fantasy/Horror movie directed by ZackSnyder about a young girl's planned escape from an insane asylum and... well, have a look at the tropes. It's highly stylized and highly self-aware, and deals with escapism in all its different forms: referencing practically every movie and video game under the sun, the film is a celebration of the idea that TropesAreNotBad... or alternatively an over-produced misogynistic MindScrew pretending to be about female empowerment. [[YourMileageMayVary Critics are split.]]

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Appropriately enough.

* DullSurprise: Baby Doll's expression never really seems to change. It's like she's perpetually scared, even in the midst of her badassery. In the extended cut, [[spoiler:she ''does'' show emotion in the scene with the High-Roller.]]

* FauxlosophicNarration: "Something something guardian angels something."
** Also, the beginning and the end.
** YourMileageWillVary about how Fauxlosophic it is...

** TheHero: Baby Doll, the leader and protaganist

* {{Fanservice}}: Played straight, but Zack's had something to say on its usage:

* NeverTrustATrailer: Despite the supposedly empowering messages in the film, the trailers and TV spots generally focussed on the "Hot chicks in skimpy outfts" aspect. The marketing may have been a factor in the film's poor box office take.

* ImagineSpot: ''All'' the action sequences. And the cabaret as well.

* MaleGaze

Alternatively EmilieAutumn's message, and story, made a movie.

or EmilieAutumn's message, and story, made a movie.

Alternatively, the film can be described as ''Alice In Wonderland'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''300'', with [[{{BFG}} big guns]].

** Did anyone else thought "[[TeamFortress2 Medic!]]" when they first got a good view of the Doctor?

** The Wise Man's CatchPhrase sounds suspiciously similar to Uncle's in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''. Or {{Columbo}}'s.

''Sucker Punch'' is an action/fantasy movie directed by ZackSnyder about a young girl's planned escape from an insane asylum and... well, have a look at the tropes. It's highly stylized and highly self-aware, and deals with escapism in all its different forms: referencing practically every movie and video game under the sun, the film is a celebration of the idea that TropesAreNotBad... or alternatively an over-produced misogynistic MindScrew pretending to be about female empowerment. [[YourMileageMayVary Critics are split.]]

Ultimately, the film is a modern re-interpretation of ''AliceInWonderland'', [[XMeetsY mixing the classic story up]] with ''{{Brazil}}''. ... If it were a video game. ... In slow-motion....or EmilieAutumn's message, and story, made a movie.

Ultimately, the film is a modern re-interpretation of ''AliceInWonderland'', [[XMeetsY mixing the classic story up]] with ''{{Brazil}}''. ... If it were a video game. ... In slow-motion....or EmilieAtuumn's message, made a movie.

Ultimately, the film is a modern re-interpretation of ''AliceInWonderland'', [[XMeetsY mixing the classic story up]] with ''{{Brazil}}''. ... If it were a video game. ... In slow-motion.

* OneWomanWail: Heard in [[http://www.joblo.com/witness-sexy-action-girls-and-pure-madness-in-the-sucker-punch-teaser the trailer.]]

* MaleGaze: Averting this is part of the movie's message. The film makes a point of averting it, despite how the female characters dress. Thus, any FanService you see, you ''wanted'' to see; the idea being it's your own damn fault if you come away thinking this movie has objectified the characters.

** The simple way the Medical Theater/Social room in the Mental Asylum is simply called a "Theater" alluding to what the girls end up doing in world #2.

* UnreliableNarrator: Made all the more weird because we're not quite sure who the narrator is.