Review of Spring Breakers (2013) by Dave L — 20 Jan 2014

Critics (some of them) have "Spring Breakers" as one of the best films of the year. They are wrong. This is an attempt at social satire or a meditation on the hedonism of our culture that is stunningly inept.

Neither theme is effective. Instead, we are assaulted with meaningless and repetitive dialogue and bad rhymes spouted by James Franco's character (Franco's performance is actually stand out among lesser players).

The script is awful. I lost count of how many times Franco muttered "spring break, spriiing break" as if the writer/director was mindlessly filling empty audio space. One character, Faith (before she leaves) drones on about coming down to spring break in Florida to find herself and how she wants to live down there.

How many partying co-eds philosophize about finding themselves at a debauchery filled beach? That charcater is completely absurd. The end of the movie is so beyond ridiculous with girls in bikinis mowing down druglords at their mansion with no spare gun clips and one singular gun each.

The ammunition is apparently unlimited. Oh yeah, logical faults like this can always be explained by "this is a satire". This was a bad film.