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Zack Snyder's odious Sucker Punch opens with a dialogue-free tableau that introduces us, sort of, to the back story of our blank-faced heroine, Babydoll (Emily Browning) and her sister (Frederique De Raucort).

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Their mother has just died, which means their stepfather (Gerard Plunkett) has free reign to get down to the important business of trying to rape both girls.

Attempting to defend them both against his advances, Babydoll accidentally and inexplicably kills her little sister (who has presumably already been violated by dad) instead. She is promptly shipped off to Lennox House For The Mentally Insane, dressed in skin-coloured, rain-soaked PJs all the better for clinging to her every fun-sized curve.

All this is set to an interminable sing-song cover of Sweet Dreams, because, like, you know, she's actually in a living nightmare or some shit.

It's not the first sledgehammer-subtle song choice; the soundtrack of covers and mash-ups signpost every narrative twist, every intended mood. Thus, when we hit Lennox's corridors, it's a drippy cover of - LOL! - The Pixies' Where Is My Mind. Because people in asylums ask that very question, geddit!

Lennox is the sort of asylum where inmates are handed a kicky mini-skirt and a few sticks of Rimmel kohl upon arrival; it's full of Very Bad Girls who wear the latest in mentally ill chic.

There she meets, in descending order of expendability, Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish, slumming it beyond all comprehension) and her sister Rocket (Jena Malone), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens) and Amber (Jamie Chung).