Want to see something REALLY entertaining? If you answered yes to this question---then you have to go out and see Spring Breakers ASAP. Sure...this newest effort from the crazy director Harmony Korine is basically a pointless, extended music video but who cares when it's so damn enjoyable? It is a bright, colorful, ridicilous, sex-filled time at the movies. It is also hard to let go of. We have all heard the controversy of Disney stars Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens as well as "Pretty Little Liars" star Ashley Benson being bad girls. Well...here's your chance to see what the controversy is about and I implore you to do so.
The film follows four college girls (Gomez, Benson, Hudgens and Harmony's daughter Rachel Korine) as they rob a restaraunt in order to get enough money to party for spring break. When they get busted with drugs---a rapper who goes by the name Alien (James Franco) bails them out. He does this for his own needs such as having orgies and writing poetry about the girls. This leads to a plan to kill Alien's rival Archie (rapper Gucci Mane.)
Franco is absolutely amazing here. He gives a performance that will stay in your mind for days and days to come. He gives the character of Alien a heart but also makes him the sick bastard he is meant to be. By doing so....Franco gives Alien a significantly more human side than is deserved. When you leave the theater---the first thing you will be thinking is "how could Franco have pulled it off?" As well---the four girls are excellent and naughty in the best way possible. They make their characters into the opposite of the typical dumb teenager you see in movies nowadays.
Korine has truly made a semi-masterpiece with Spring Breakers. This is the best film thus far this year even if it really didn't NEED to be made. I guarantee you that once you step out of the theater....you will be happy that you saw it and the film gets even better the more you think about it. So go to the movies tonight and see by far the best thing that the controversial Korine has ever done.
(4 and 1/2 out of 5 Stars, The film is rated R for strong sexual content, language, nudity, drug use and violence throughout)
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