I'm a newbie when it comes to Harmony Korine's previous work. After I first watched it, it didn't take some processing on my part and multiple viewings have only made me appreciate it more. There is a story present in SPRING BREAKERS but it's done in such a unique and mind-bending fashion that I guarantee it'll turn a lot of people off. While I'm totally cool with helping others experience new movies and different styles of filmmaking, I know there's a line and, in this instance, that line is filmmaker Harmony Korine. I had a friend that wanted to see this movie purely for the bikini-clad stars but I warned him against it because I didn't want to hear the eventual complaints that he had no idea what was going on. It's a visual journey, popping with neon color and thumping with an electronic soundtrack, that won't settle with most average viewers. SPRING BREAKERS isn't so much a film as it is an experience. He bails out the girls and enlists them to join him in business, and it all goes nuts from there. Enter AlienÂ…a wannabe gangster who makes his living dealing drugs and robbing spring-breakers. From there, it's beaches, booze, and bongs as the girls party it up until their arrested in a narcotics bust when they're in the wrong place at the wrong time. We receive our first hint that these girls aren't quite right when Candy, Brit, and Cotty decide to rob an all-night chicken shack for their Spring Break funds. Spring Break has arrived and their too poor to leave campus when everyone heads down south to the beaches of Florida for a week of insane debauchery. It centers on four longtime friends: Candy (Hudgens), Brit (Benson), Cotty (Korine), and Faith (Gomez). This movie is a 90 minute hallucination and a rough one. Anyway, SPRING BREAKERS is not a comedy and, if it is, I missed something somewhere. Can someone explain to me why SPRING BREAKERS was in the comedy section of my local department store? I can only imagine how many people saw this movie sitting on the shelf with it's cover portraying Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, and James Franco in beach-mode and thought, "Well this movie looks like a fun time! It's like THE HANGOVER for the Disney crowd!" I am, of course, assuming that the majority of people buying movies from my local department stores are fools who aren't familiar with movie ratings or aware of movie reviews.
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