Spring Breakers (2013)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 160
Fresh: 105 | Rotten: 55
Spring Breakers blends stinging social commentary with bikini cheesecake and a bravura James Franco performance.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 25 | 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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Gucci Mane
Archie
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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.
Top CriticNeon 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.
A trippy, florescent whirl of boobs and bongs.
I couldn't get past the feeling that this was basically the director's softcore material masquerading as a feature film
Often exploitative and completely gratuitous, it succeeds in also exploring the recklessness of youth...
Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers is rough around the edges, visually pleasing, experimental and a downright bizarre film, but one that's worthy of at least one viewing.
A ridiculous, repetitive and empty drama.
You're probably gonna hate Spring Breakers, but I bet you love it, too.
If you can look beyond Harmony Korine's misogynistic, uncomfortably leering view of the women in his film, there is some stuff to enjoy, though the film is held back by an unfortunate lack of substance.
"Spring Breakers" might engender multiple viewings and a cult status à la "Scarface." Korine, unfortunately, jumps the gun by frequently repeating lines of Franco's dialogue in voiceover, as if "Spring Breakers" already is on repeat.
While films such as Spring Breakers should never be blamed for gun violence, they can be used to gauge just how much people truly care about such issues. And how quickly they are willing to forget.
Director Korine obviously wants to make some profound comment about the debauchery of Floridian spring-breaking but he's sucked into the whole sleazy world head-first.
A simultaneous celebration and criticism of youth.
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.
Audience Reviews for Spring Breakers
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- Candy: Spring Break forever, bitches.
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- Alien: I'm made of fuckin' money. Look at my fuckin' teeth!
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- Alien: I got Scarface on repeat. Scarface on repeat. Constant y'all!
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- Cotty: Never gonna get this puuuusssy.
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- Alien: When I'm with them, I'm gonna be thinkin' about you.
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- Brit: Down, motherfucker! Down!
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