Starring Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, and Vanessa Hudgens. Rated 14A.

Who’s got more than their share of drugs in Hollywood? Why, it appears that would be Zack Snyder, who must have ingested warehouses full of LSD, mushrooms, and peyote to come up with Sucker Punch. You probably couldn’t conjure a movie that’s a mashup of video game, anime, fantasy, fairy tale, and porno with hot orphan chicks fighting robots, orcs, and undead soldiers without at least some hash brownies.

In 300, writer-director Snyder revealed his giddy fetish for hard-bodied Spartans, and in Watchmen, well, somebody had a thing for superheroes, didn’t they? This time Snyder apparently let loose his inner 17-year-old who’s cuckoo for Kill Bill and Tomb Raider and masturbates to visions of doll-faced blondes in slutty sailor dresses.

If you’re not a twanger-tugging teenage boy, the lunatic Sucker Punch is still pretty entertaining—okay, depending maybe on your sensitivity to murder, attempted rape, lobotomy, and female-empowerment role models dressed like strippers. Babydoll (Emily Browning), Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), Rocket (Jena Malone), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), and Amber (Jamie Chung) are, in fact, dancer-hos in a sort of nightclub-brothel run by the sadistic Blue (Oscar Isaac) and conflicted dance mistress Madame Gorski (Carla Gugino). Oh, except not really.

The kooky conceit of Sucker Punch is that almost everything that happens is really Babydoll’s strategy for dealing with being committed to an insane asylum by her evil stepfather. So excellent is her coping that she can drop herself and the other criminally bonkers young ladies into surreal landscapes where they slay giant samurais and dragons and slo-mo kick zombie German ass in First World War trenches to pulsing remixes like Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit”. The sucker punch is to our retinas, eardrums, and tiny, tender brain cells.