"Spring Breakers" Review

Four girls desperate to join their peers on spring break rob and rough house their way to paradise. It's all fun and games until things get a little too real.

Springbreakers
Starring: Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, James Franco
Directed by Harmony Korine
My Opinion: Fun but sloppy

Disney stars explode out of their good girl shells in this raunchy art house film from Harmony Korine. With all the creative genius behind it, this film had some bad ass potential. Unfortunately, Springbreakers suffers from a shaky script and a general lack of direction.

Ribbons of  boobs, drugs and violence run through the film - it's plenty entertaining. However, the gentle glide that usual orders Korine's artful dialogue is actually very stiff here. While James Franco nails his scumbag character, Vanessa Hudgens paints an irritating picture of a crazed college girl. By the end of the film, Hudgens and Ashley Benson were interchangeable broken records.

It seems like the film starts out on a mission, then it parties too hard and forgets what it was supposed to do. Perhaps writer/director Harmony Korine has fallen a little from the gritty realism that was Gummo and is relying a little too much on drugs and boobies. Not that I'm really complaining, but let's hope Korine's next piece is a little more solid.