Film review: Spring Breakers
If blond teenage girls watched more James Bond movies, they’d be able to better spot a bad guy. One giveaway, which the girls in Spring Breakers discounted, proving an unfortunate lack of wisdom: The bad guy often has metal teeth. In this particular film, he also sports corn rows, raps to pleasure-seeking spring breakers and makes his money the same way his idol Scarface did: with lots of guns and drugs.
This film is a very superficial depiction of slow-motion, sunlit hedonism, complete with an orgy of alcohol and the odd lesbo-curious moment between two or more drunk girls, usually writhing together to make the men around them even more horny. At the end of the film’s first act, the girls encounter Alien (James Franco), said rapper with the metal teeth, who has taken a liking to them and bails them out of jail when they are arrested at one of the city’s many locations where hedonism is taking place en masse.
The rest of the story, which luckily runs only 90 minutes in total, goes downhill, as some of the girls decide to head back home, having seen too much they can never unsee, while the survivors get lured in by Alien’s devious ways, his money and his power. However, unlike the mediocre drug film Savages, released locally at the end of 2012, the characters that stick together show very little depth, and we skip from scene to scene with very little sense for the danger in which the girls find themselves.
Read the full review at The Prague Post.
(Still of James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson in Spring Breakers via imdb.com. © 2013 – A24)
