Fans of bargain-bin ’80s horror will find plenty to enjoy: a hair metal soundtrack, girls with feathered bangs, guys in mesh tank tops, studded headbands and a busybody preacher. The outlandish script has something to do with an angry biker gang, fratty spring breakers and a leather-clad killer who rides a motorcycle that doubles as an electric chair. The director, Harry Kirkpatrick ( possibly a pseudonym for the Italian director Umberto Lenzi), uses pool parties, sweaty machismo and topless young women to set the mood. This is a documentary about unsung heroes of World War II.
Spring break is the target in this under-the-radar oddity that marries the slasher film and the beach party flick, two genres that share a love of “naked girls and stupidity,” as one critic put it. (Even our own Sean OConnell calls it the first Oscar-worthy performance of the year.). The young actresses hold their own, but it's Franco who chews up the scenery with his hilarious minor kingpin who loves to shout "Look at my s-t!" and sing "Spring break, spring break, spring break forever!" Adults able to deal with the movie's carnal excess will be able to see its clever messages, but if an audience just wants to see breasts and beer and coke-snorting, then they've proved Korine's point.The horror genre loves to upend a beloved tradition - Christmas, birthday parties, birth itself - into an opportunity for mayhem and massacre. James Franco may have helped bring in the cash for Oz the last few weeks, but its his turn in Spring Breakers as a gilded-grilled gangsta rapper known as Alien that has tongues around town wagging. They'll be too distracted with the nonstop titillation (no matter how uncomfortable it is) to see the film for what it is - a subversive treatise on the naivete and downright idiocy of this out-of-control rite of passage.
For adult viewers, the movie's salacious close ups of bouncing breasts and gyrating bikini bottoms, the repetitive scenes, and the general plotlessness make sense, because Spring Breakers is ultimately poking fun at the misguided nature of the spring break party scene and the college kids who think this that a week of booze, booty, and getting high is what they're meant to experience - and what they deserve.īut teens - who may well be drawn to the movie by the idea of Disney starlets doing their version of "Girls Gone Wild" (Gomez less shockingly than Hudgens, who's startlingly sexual as wicked Candy) - won't necessarily understand the cliches that Korine is skewering. Director Harmony Korine ( Kids) can't seem to help but push buttons and cross boundaries. This movie's likely to make audiences ridiculously uncomfortable with its realistically graphic scenes of adolescent sex and substance abuse. As for them being Disney channel children I do believe that these two young women have handled themselves incredibly well if you stop and think about other Disney channel kids, EX Miley Cyrus, Bella Thorne, and I know this one isn't Disney channel she's Nickelodeon but Amanda bynes they've all had a hard time shaking off their childhood rules so I do believe Selena and Vanessa have handled it very well and have done an incredible job going into very smart young women that they are.
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Just because they have literally grown up in front of us on TV we need to realize that they are adults now and are going to take on and act in more adult roles in films and t.v shows. No matter what those things really do go on our there and this movie shows how it can be during spring break.As for people saying that they're shocked to see Selena Gomez or Vanessa Hudgens in a movie like this they need to realize that those young ladies are not the Disney channel kids anymore they have grown up to be very beautiful young women and their roles are going to be adult roles with all of the adult content that you expect from other actors and actresses. It's a really good depiction of what spring break can actually be like with the wrong crowds. The movie isn't all that bad but my girls(14&11) wanted to watch it and I let them rent(redbox) and I almost let them watch it before I seen it and I'm glad I watched it while they were at cheerleading practice instead of watching it together for the 1st time (this way I knew what was coming and what to expect).
Franco, who has written for VICE over the last several months, used his platform at the publication to review 'Spring Breakers,' and didnt hold back on praise for the film and its director, Harmony Korine. As my headline said"Parents watch it 1st". After four college girls are busted for robbing a fast food shack to fund their spring break, they are unexpectedly bailed out by an infamous local thug who lures them into a criminal underbelly. Those are the words of James Franco, who plays Alien in 'Spring Breakers,' as published by VICE on Friday.