In Theaters: March 15th, 2013
Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes (94 minutes)
Rated R for strong sexual content, language, nudity, drug use and violence throughout.
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Four college girls land in jail after their Spring Break partying goes off the rails. They find themselves bailed out by a local drug dealer who takes them under his wing.
Spring Breakers strikes me as another of Korine's calculated punk outrages, a sploog in Disney's direction.
Korine's latest is a characteristically serious film about inherently ridiculous characters, but it's too montonous to be really thoughtful or funny.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
Basically a "Girls Gone Wild'' short artily padded out to feature-length by endlessly repeating the same scenes and lines of dialogue, often three or more times.
Critic Score: 1.5/4
"Spring Breakers" is so over-the-top, so-overdone, so extreme, it'd turn even a hedonist off sex.
Critic Score: 1/4
Spring Breakers is an exploitative display of bacchanalian excess, casual sex and rampant nudity that's more tedious than titillating.
Critic Score: 2/4
The movie is an arty lark of ambiguous entertainment value, pulsing with melancholy.
Critic Score: 3/5
[Korine] turns his exploration into such a gonzo, outrageously funny party that it takes a while to appreciate that this is more of a horror film than a comedy.
Critic Score: 5/5
Spring Breakers, beach-party fluff done as an art film by the reliably bizarre Harmony Korine, is a return to form for Franco.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
Korine manages to make much of the film into a "Natural Born Killers"-style pop patchwork with a videogame-influenced lack of morality.
Critic Score: 3/5
We're all screwed, Korine seems to be saying. It's very sad - but also kinda sexy.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
Whatever other charges you want to level against "Spring Breakers" - such as incoherence, plotlessness, salaciousness and mind-numbing monotony - it has no lack of high concept.
All I knew is I couldn't wait to see it a second time.
It has hypnotic visual style and a dense, driving soundscape. But it's also too monotonous and thematically empty to be seriously provocative.
Attractively fizzy pic may be a shock to the system for fans of teen queens Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens, but remains pretty toothless titillation by its writer-helmer's standards.
It would be easy to dismiss 'Spring Breakers.' Lord I'd like to.
Critic Score: B-
Spring Breakers is all surface and sham; it's trash about humpers.
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