Despite the fact that Snyder was taking a break from his usual color explosion work like 300 and the film adaptation of Watchmen to do Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, that owl animated movie "from the makers of happy feet", it seems he has been planning something exciting after all. I remember hearing about the film's concept a while back and I couldn't help but shake the feeling that this year's craze was going to be "Alice in Wonderland" type movies, especially since Tim Burton already came out with his poorly done version. Turns out, this year's theme is actually crazy Protagonists (Shutter Island, Inception, The Crazies (what? it counts), Chloe, Youth in Revolt, Greenberg, and all the others. Since the plot of this revolves a girl's imaginative coping strategy used to escape a lobotomy at a mental institution, the theme is obviously present with nice shiny bright blinking lights. Anyways, based on the trailer, I am impressed. It's got everything a guy like myself wants to see in an action flick; ensemble cast of girls (Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, a change of pace from Disney I see, Abbie Cornish, and Emily Browning? has anybody seen anything with her since "A Series of Unfortunate Events", yes the Jim Carrey one) in questionably burlesque uniforms, dragons, samurai, steampunk, and Jon Hamm (the question is why he isn't in more movies?). This is most likely not going to be your date movie as it is clearly quote unquote for "all the young dudes" like the song's title. In the end, although I am afraid this movie may cop out for one of those, she never made it out, she is crazy so you can't trust the entire movie you watched, lobotomy, the end, I still think I may enjoy it for the ride.
Post Viewing: It's sort of what I thought it would be, but because of its lack of exposition, one does not understand the situation they are in so it's just plain old confusing, but the visuals are nice, even if the cgi looks like a video game.
- Jeff Bassin
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