"Some balls you have Simon, showing yourself to me. No matter what you say, we'll never be friends because I hate mechanical inventions. And you know this."

"Guess what, I despise you. You're a bully and a whore."

"The only thing those tits will trap will be my warm spray."

"That thing [Julie] is a dickless traitor."

"Ew. Julie has no dick."

"Eugh. Leezar wants to make love to Belladonna to create a dragon. That's fucking disgusting."

"Isn't that amazing how he can talk and suck my cock at the same exact time."

"I don't like this. Courtney, will you make funny faces to entertain me. [laughs] No! Never triangle face! I hate triangle face! It scares me."

"May we take pause for one moment? Look at courtney's new haircut, doesn't it make his head look like the tip of a penis? It's hilarious."

"Please, these allegations, they're being greatly exaggerated. It was more or less just heavy petting with a brief moment of penetration."

"Interviewer: I’m curious, if you don’t mind talking about it, what was the originally shot and intended ending?"

"Interviewer: Most female action heroines are generally interchangeable with men. Can you talk about the process of finding that specific female voice?"

"Interviewer: Did you think a lot in the writing process, “Would a woman say this?”"

"Interviewer: Is it wrong to enjoy seeing Babydoll in that school girl outfit, though?"

"Interviewer: I thought it was basically you commenting on those attendants at Comic-Con who shout, “You’re hot!” at beautiful cast members."

"Interviewer: Would you say the film is a critique on sexist geek culture?"

"Yes, Snyder’s Sucker Punch heroines, the patients at a mental hospital, are relatively thinly-sketched. Yes, in the fantasy world they enter to battle for their freedom, their outfits are not, shall we say, practical. But at the time Sucker Punch came out, it was the rare movie with a female lead to come out of Warner Brothers, Snyder’s longtime studio. Even rarer, it was an original action movie starring women."

"You could go to see “Sucker Punch” this weekend — a lot of people probably will, and a few may even admit as much back at the office on Monday — or you could try to make it yourself, which might be more fun, though not necessarily cheaper. Here’s what you will need: a bunch of video-game platforms; DVDs of “Shutter Island,” “Kill Bill,” “Burlesque” and “Shrek”; some back issues of Maxim; a large bag of crystal meth; and around $100 million. Your imagination will take care of the rest."

"Actually, the whole film is a surgical strike on your visual senses and intellectual faculties. Snyder’s efforts to have you believe this is some kind of empowering, riot-grrls-together redemption story would be more convincing if the cameras didn’t slather quite as droolingly whenever the women, clad in fishnets and schoolgirl outfits, come into view. The men, meanwhile, are a one-dimensional army of lechers, paedophiles, rapists and misogynists. The standard defence for this kind of film is that it’s not meant to be analysed too closely, it’s only entertainment. With Sucker Punch, you could also say that its narrative slackness is down to its themes (mental instability) and to the way that it taps into the dream logic of gamer culture. But even its battle scenes are deadly boring. If I had to choose between this and the most bog-standard computer game, it wouldn’t be any contest at all."

"Q: What are your thoughts on how Zack Synder writes women?"

"Q: Could you talk about the costumes that you wear in the film?"

"Q: Why are your characters in the asylum?"

"Q: What are your characters’ relationships to Baby Doll?"

"Q: Could you talk a little bit about your dance scene today, Jena?"

"Q: Can you talk about your reactions when you first the saw costumes you’d be wearing?"

"Q: As actors, I would assume that you have some freedom to sort of explore and dig into your real world characters. But when you cross over into this other world, do you have to be careful to sort of do your preparation through the prism of how Baby Doll would see or imagine you? Does it force you to understand her character more, as well as your own?"

"Q: We were kind of talking about this at lunch today. The design of these characters and your character, the dominatrix kind of thing. We’ve heard ‘empowerment’ mentioned in terms of these characters, but they look a little more like ideals…"

"Q: While we already sort of know the character you play, could you talk about who you play in the film?"

"You could say that Sucker Punch is a nymphet version of The Snake Pit or Shutter Island, or a live-action, green-screened redo of The Powerpuff Girls, or Black Swan (Carla Gugino has the demanding dance master role here) with a higher nightmare quotient, or an $82 million tribute to Jess Franco’s sublimely cheesy women-in-prison movies of the ’70s, or an Americanization of Norifumi Suzuki “pinky violence” melodramas (Girl Boss Guerrilla, Sex and Fury) of the same decade, or, in its backstory about a decent girl deprived of her inheritance and consigned to grow up in a prisonlike environment, a gloss on mid-19th-century classics from Jane Eyre to Little Dorrit. With the action scenes playing like production numbers in some high-concept musical, you’ll be reminded of Julie Taymor’s Beatles fantasia, Across the Universe. The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. The movie is like an arrested adolescent’s Google search run amok. The teen boy who would get lost in that cyber wonderland — he’s also Sucker Punch‘s target demographic — is meant to fixate on the five girls who go questing. Known only by their prostitute pseudonyms, they include whey-haired sisters Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish) and Rocket (Jena Malone), a brunette called Blondie (High School Musical‘s Vanessa Hudgens) and the Asian Amber (Jamie Chung). Snyder doesn’t bother much with differentiating these four, as they may simply be personalities fever-dreamed by Baby Doll. That’s Browning, who with the giant eyes, puffy lips and fake eyelashes could be her own anime doll, the whole package dressed in a Japanese schoolgirl outfit as retailored by Victoria’s Secret."

"Q: What is your connection to the other girls in the film?"

"Q: There are four action set pieces that we have been told about. What have you filmed already and can you talk about it?"

"Q: Each of the characters have a sort of iconography that goes along with them. Did you have any input on that and how do you feel about the schoolgirl aspect that you have going on?"

"Q: You have to perform this character in several different levels of fantasy and reality on top of all of the physical stuff. Is it extremely challenging?"

"Patrick Sabongui - Earl"

"Gerard Plunkett - The Stepfather / Priest"

"Scott Glenn - The Wise Man / The General / The Bus Drive"

"Jon Hamm - The Doctor / The High Roller"