After her parents die and her sister and her left alone Baby Doll has no idea what to do. The first thing that comes to mind is to protect her sister AT ALL costs. This soon becomes a problem when her "stepfather" wants the house and land which was left to the girls in their parents will. Baby Doll runs away to get a gun to threaten him with but by the time she comes back her sister is already dead. Baby Doll tries to kill her "stepfather" but cannot do it so she runs to her parents grave where the police soon find her and deem her "crazy"(or in a deep state of depression). Her "stepfather" had told the police that she killed her sister out of sadness for her parents death and he "suggests"(pays them extra) that she should get a lobotomy so she can forget her "pain". The doctors bring her into the room for her procedure and right before they slam the hammer down she is transported to this other world. She is now an orphan placed in a brothel to entertain a high-roller who is coming in three days to take her and she has to learn a dance to impress him so the pimp who owns the brothel can make a lot of money. She soon discovers that when she really gets into the dance she can transport herself into a video game like world where she meets a monk. The monk tells her that she has to find 5 things. 1). A Map 2). Fire 3).A Knife 4). A Key and 5). Something only you know what it is. Baby Doll soon gets the rest of the girls in her "group" to take part in the journey. She guarantees them that no matter what, as long as she is dancing they will be safe and can steal the items. Together they will finally be able to escape the dump they live in and Baby Doll from the high roller.
What We Think
Reviewed by The North Star
Run Time: 120 Minutes
Rating: PG- 13
After seeing the trailer for this movie I thought it looked like a bunch of guys who sat around a computer and thought of how to make extremely hot girls in a movie and somehow incorporate a video game aspect in there as well with almost no story line. Once I saw the commercial a few more times it started to sink in and I thought that it might actually be a good movie. I should have stuck to my original thoughts. This movie made absolutely NO sense what-so-ever. The beginning makes sense, the middle is confusing at first and then you start to make huge assumptions on why things happened and in the end your brain gets fried and you are more lost then when you stepped foot into the movie theater. It is very obvious that the producers/directors spent all of their time on the special effects and fighting scenes and almost no time on the actual plot.
As for the acting it was pretty decent. Emily Browning was the best part of the movie she was believable for the part that she had to work with. She also sang on the soundtrack (which I found out after seeing the movie) and she has an AMAZING voice!! I didn't believe it was her at first but iTunes told me that she sang it so I guess I should believe them (: . Back on topic, all of the other actors only acted half-heartedly and it showed. I tried to not think of Vanessa singing and dancing around in High School Musical but her acting wasn't much better in this than in High School Musical. In the actors defenses they didn't have to do much acting. More than half of the movie was fight scenes, and don't get me wrong I love a good fight scene but each fight scene was to long and by the end of it I didn't care whether or not they had gotten the item. In the end this was just a terrible movie, I have no idea what possessed people to make it and then put it in theaters. Emily Browning's acting and the soundtrack (which was BEAST) saved the movie from an F but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless you want to watch a movie that makes scratch your head for a day trying to figure out what you just watched.
Real Teen Rating~ D- : I wouldn't bother at all
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