. Sucker Punch just looks like my kind of movie, and I'm not just saying that because I've got posters of it's stars plastered on my wall(and tattooed in my brain). Just how much time is going to be spent exploring the myriad worlds the girls venture off to is anybody's guess, but Snyder is making an effort to develop them a little bit by teaming up with Ben Hibon on a pair of animated short films taking place in the Sucker Punch universe. If the style looks familiar, it's because you most recently saw Hibon's dark, heavy work in the awesome animated sequence in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 1
. It's just as beautiful here. Check out both shorts below: "The Trenches" followed by "Dragon".In Sucker Punch, the girls face off against an army of mechanized WWI soldiers. Through the use of clockwork and steam technology, human soldiers who die in battle are reanimated and sent back to the front lines. Although seemingly indistinguishable and soulless, the zombie army is not just made of gears and steam, but also of human flesh, bone, and memory. In “The Trenches” there is a tragic tale behind each lifeless mask.
In Sucker Punch, the girls drop into a castle courtyard and find themselves in the middle of a chaotic battlebetween a hoard of gruesome Orcs and an army of Black Knights. The original cause of the massive conflict is hopelessly lost amidst the death and destruction. "Dragon" is a tale of religious persecution exploring the origin of this conflict. Who is the righteous and who is the heathen?
Sucker Punch opens in theaters on March 25th!
