The premise of the film is that Baby Doll ( Browning) and her kid sister are in anguish after the death of their mother. Their wicked stepfather is left out of his wife’s will. When the letch starts creeping up on her sleeping sister, Baby Doll grabs his gun, conveniently left in the drawer in his study, and attempts to shoot him. She misses him, but not her sister. Stepdad takes Baby Doll to a mental institution, leaving him free to lay claim on the estate. Baby Doll is quickly scheduled for a lobotomy, and just as the doctor is about to hammer her frontal lobe, the scene suddenly changes. The general setting is the same, but now the mental institution is a seedy gentlemen’s club, and the other inmates are burlesque dancers.
The doctors and orderlies and security personnel become a dance instructor (Gugino), patrons and the sinister hustler Blue Jones (Isaac) who trades the girls’ misery for high roller cash.
Baby Doll very quickly concocts a plan to escape, and enlists the aid of her fellow dancers, Sweet Pea (Cornish), Rocket (Malone), Blondie (Hudgens), and Amber (Chung). The girls find themselves thrust into World War I trenches fighting clockwork zombies, battling orcs and dragons, dueling giant samurai warriors or fending off waves of Terminator-like robots on a speeding bullet train. Of course, things go south for the heroic ladies and they don’t all succeed in their escape.
