A teenage fanboy's hormone induced wet dream....I just would have liked it to make more sense
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To say that Sucker Punch is all style and no substance is to miss the core problem with it. It tries to do too much, but doesn't accomplish much. When you're doing a "fantasy within a fantasy to escape the harsh reality" type of story, you have to at least establish a basic connection with the character's reality. You need to know them, even if just a little, just so that when they go all dreamy and start fantasizing and escaping said reality, you understand WHERE all this dreamland is coming from. And also, it would have been a HUGE plus if what was going on in the fantasy had just a little bit of connection with reality.
I'm not going into any details to avoid spoiling the "story" for those of you who haven't seen it, but that's the main problem of the movie. It fails to make us care about its characters, and instead you sit around as if you were watching a cartoon, or worse, a video game someone else is playing. I don't know about you, but to me, that's never been too much fun...