Spring Breakers (2013)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 150
Fresh: 99 | Rotten: 51
Spring Breakers blends stinging social commentary with bikini cheesecake and a bravura James Franco performance.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 13
Spring Breakers blends stinging social commentary with bikini cheesecake and a bravura James Franco performance.
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Brit (Ashley Benson), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Cotty (Rachel Korine) and Faith (Selena Gomez) have been best friends since grade school. They live together in a boring college dorm and are hungry for adventure. All they have to do is save enough money for spring break to get their shot at having some real fun. A serendipitous encounter with rapper "Alien" (James Franco) promises to provide the girls with all the thrill and excitement they could hope for. With the encouragement of their new
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James Franco
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Selena Gomez
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Vanessa Hudgens
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Ashley Benson
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Rachel Korine
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It's campy and comic at times, but Korine also gives the film a downbeat, melancholic edge, with voiceovers, pointed repetition of dialogue and images, and hallucinatory camera work, sound and editing.
Neon bright and all raw energy, Spring Breakers is a pulsating paradox of a movie, both a tangerine dream and a cultural reality check, a pop artifact that simultaneously exploits and explores the shallowness of pop artifacts.
Korine's story is a searing indictment of today's hedonistic, nihilistic youth, and his script is loaded with sharp, telling dialogue that exposes the rotten moral cores of its characters.
The film stands, overall, as one of the director's richer provocations ...
Once a year, St. Petersburg is awash with thoughtless, unpleasant people making poor decisions. This spring, Korine is one of them.
An authentically cracked expression of the crazy, conflicting signals bombarding today's teenagers.
In many ways, this trashy, dazzling but enigmatic film belongs to Franco's Alien, a wannabe gangsta who just doesn't have the guts or heart to be a cold-hearted thug.
The ideals of freedom, paradise and the American dream pulse in a neon coloured, bubble-gum scented descent into darkness
Parents will look on with dismay; others will leave feeling bemused but thoroughly entertained.
It's not exactly an exploitation film, and it's not exactly an art film, but it's also both at the same time. It's the type of experience that blows your mind but convinces you that nobody else on the planet is going to "get" it.
The message may be lost on those who only came for the bountiful breasts and booties... Spring Breakers is an immersive phantasmagoria; one of the funniest, strangest, prettiest, and flat out maddest films of the year.
Most shocking of all is that while Spring Breakers takes some time to find its bearings, this may be the most confident and artistically-grounded film of Korine's career.
An audacious, synth-pop mélange of ecstatic heaven and drugged-out hell -- an allegory for the corruption of innocence and the fear of blossoming female sexuality.
what you thought would happen does... and doesn't
( ... ) for anyone refusing to acquiesce that this degree of 'girl power' is less a rite of passage and more like a collective suicide plunge onto a bed of six inch nails, perhaps Korine is right to be so provocative.
There's Korine, defiantly lobbing grenades at the mainstream and exploding it all to hell.
Korine would feel he'd failed badly were I to have enjoyed it.
A wild ride of a movie, Spring Breakers finds gleeful cinematic provocateur Harmony Korine pitching a bunch of former teen starlets into a headlong spree of sex and drugs and gangsta rap.
Traditionally, spring break flicks are teen angst induced romantic comedies. Brain death is the best description. Spring Breakers is a totally new way to do that brain death.
Arthouse filmmaker Harmony Korine (Mister Lonely) comes dangerously close to making a mainstream movie with this blackly comical thriller.
Maintaining his queasy dialectic throughout, the director oscillates between disgust and frenzied indulgence.
You start the film wondering what the moral take on all this uninventive debauchery is going to be - is it a satire? - but then realise with dismay there is no take on offer at all.
It's the kind of 'experimental' movie hailed as edgy, subversive and transgressive, when in fact it's inept, amateurish and loathsome.
A tedious attempt to inject some style and artistic flair into the teen movie, combing outrageous behaviour with arty, slo-mo cinematography and a monotonous voiceover.
Drink, drugs, sex and robbery with minor violence.
The trouble is all in the film's wildly anxious structure, which feels largely dictated in the cutting-room by Korine going out of his way not to be accused of a message.
Audience Reviews for Spring Breakers
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- Alien: Let's cause some trouble now.
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- Alien: Y'all my motha'fuckin' soul mates.
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- Alien: Look at all my shit!
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- Faith: I just wanna go home. Please.
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- Candy: I'm spring broke!
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- Alien: Look at my shit. Look at my shit.
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