From Tura Satana to Pam Grier, I’m an easy mark for women who kick out the glass ceiling of action cinema. So Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder’s big-budget female juvenile delinquent follow-up to Watchmen, had me from the get-go. Even the names of the characters, Sweet Pea, Rocket and Baby Doll, had my engine rumbling. They’re so sweet they must be hiding something, probably a pair of brass knuckles or a butterfly knife procured from the local county fair.

Unfortunately, along with the recent casting news, which includes Amanda Seyfried, Evan Rachel Wood and Vanessa Hudgens, comes an elaboration on the plot that somewhat tempers my enthusiasm. In Sucker Punch, Baby Doll has been placed in an institution by her step-father, where she only has five days to escape a lobotomy. So far, so good, but it seems that at least part of the movie takes place within Baby Doll’s delusions. I don’t understand the necessity for creating a fantasy life for the characters when their regular, hoodlum existence should already be exciting enough as it is. That is the fantasy, watching the disenfranchised commit acts of lust and violence that most of us would never dare because polite society dictates that we shouldn’t.

So while I’m still looking forward to Sucker Punch, I’m dreading the possibility that this twist will neuter the entire thing.