Sucker Punch (Zack Snyder 2011)

and so anyway it turns out that the best thing about Sucker Punch (2011) is that after unintentionally outing himself with the gay soft-porn classic 300 (2007), Zack Snyder set out to make a tawdry, anime- and game-inspired women-in-cages, women-in-their-pants fantasy action movie but instead went the full Vincente Minnelli by making a melodrama about female suffering (with camp gothic overtones) crossed with a backstage musical (albeit with the song and dance numbers removed)…