Saturday 13 April 2013

FILM: Spring Breakers (dir: Harmony Korine, 2013)

"This isn't supposed to happen."

Even if Spring Breakers were meant to be a parody of 80s indie movies - which sadly it is not - this witless, immature and unconvincing film would still be nearly impossible to sit through.  The young actresses, who saw this as an opportunity to break away from their usual screen personae, are exploited rather than liberated, and James Franco's rowed-and-grilled Scarface-wannabe performance is quite frankly inexplicable.  The simple positive moral message that the girls finally work out ("Be good!") hardly justifies anyone having to watch the painful hour-and-a-half it takes to get there.

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