The moment is so avant-garde it's square. At one point, Alien - who makes a handsome living as a drug and arms dealer and runs Scarface on a loop as a constant source of inspiration - sits down at the keys of a white outdoor piano, tinkling along sensitively to the strains of Britney Spears' "Everytime" as the girls twirl about, like music-box ballerinas, in those aforementioned pink balaclavas. It's hard to know exactly what's happening when, which is part of the plan.
A local operator known as Alien (played by James Franco, with cornrows and a glittery platinum grill) bails them out and makes off with them, ostensibly just waiting for the moment when he can do really bad things with - or to - them.
(Others are doffing their bikini tops, joyfully just about everyone, male and female, is clearly overdoing it on the beer.)Īfter a few days, though, our four comely cuties go off with some local bad guys, snort some cocaine, and run afoul of the law, landing themselves in jail. So the three of them, unbeknownst to Faith, hold up a local restaurant - with fake guns, though they also employ some noisy hammers as a scare tactic - and thanks to the wonders of quick, time-defying cutting, it's barely a matter of minutes before they're prancing around in the Florida sun, wearing nothing but bikinis and sneakers.Ĭompared with some of the other nubile young hotties who drift past Korine's lens - he favors color-drenched pans and just-out-of-film-school slow-motion effects - these four seem relatively innocent. Even though they've taken a fourth (rather innocent) little chick under their wings - Selena Gomez's aptly named Faith - they just can't scrape together the necessary dough. Problem is, Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Brit (Ashley Benson) and Cotty (Rachel Korine, the director's wife) don't have enough money to make the trip. As Spring Breakers opens, four young women, bored to tears while stuck at some dreadfully landlocked college, yearn to cut loose and run semi-naked and free on the Florida coast. Spring Breakers is half action comedy, half moral meditation on the sorry state of youth today, which is maybe what you'd expect from writer-director Korine, the guy who first sounded the youth-in-danger alarm nearly 20 years ago with his screenplay for Kids.Īlthough parts of Spring Breakers are very funny, there's also something tsk-tsking and superior about it, as if Korine had thought a lot about young middle America's idea of midsemester fun and decided he doesn't like it one tiny bit.īut that doesn't mean he eschews the scenery. Only the girls' eyes and their Crest Strip-white teeth show through the little holes: They look like pink ninja chipmunks. On the night they commit their deadliest deeds, these girls-gone-wild slip pastel ski masks over their beachy-blond heads. Now, pictures intent on delivering cheap thrills tend to arrive dressed in art-house costumes, much like the ones Harmony Korine's killer college girls wear in his arch little sociological study, Spring Breakers. In the '70s and even into the '80s, exploitation movies used to come to us naked and innocent, rarely pretending to be anything more than what they were.
With: Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, James Franco, Gucci Mane Rated R for strong sexual content, language, nudity, drug use and violence
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