SPRING BREAKERS
Cert 18
94 mins
BBFC advice: Contains hard drug use, strong sex, sexualised nudity, violence and strong language
Just as I was sitting through the trailers, actress Georgia Groome (yes, I am a shameless name-dropper) tweeted me to say she 'LOVED' Spring Breakers.
I can sort of see what she means, although I reckon I would need to be 29 years younger (she is 21), for it to fully resonate.
Ground-breaking director Harmony Korine (his film Trash Humpers was exactly what it says on the tin) has created another movie without compromise.
For example, the nudity of young women in Spring Breakers borders on lechery.
And there is drug-taking on a grand scale. Both elements made me, as a parent of a 19-year-old girl, feel more than a little uncomfortable.
However, there are big pluses to the movie. James Franco, for example, is stunningly good.
The movie surrounds four bored college girls (Korine's real-life wife Rachel, Ashley Benson, Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez) who are desperate to go to Florida for the annual spring break celebrations.
And by desperate I mean so hyped that they are prepared to rob a diner with masks and fake guns to make it happen.
When they get there it is an orgy of drink, drugs and sex.
However, the girls get busted and the local gangster (Franco) bails them out. Why? Well, that would be ruining the plot wouldn't it?
It is two days since I saw Spring Breakers and only now I have I realised that Hudgens was one of the stars.
I find it difficult to imagine a movie or a character which is further away from High School Musical.
She is blonde, constantly bikini-clad, fearless, ruthless, and into kinky sex, hard drugs and guns. Fair to say, Gabriella Montez would not approve but it is a very impressive performance.
Gomez looks deliberately less comfortable as the the wild behaviour steps up a notch, inspired by Franco as a silver-toothed hedonist.
Spring Breakers has a number of elements which would please film geeks - the drug-inspired dream sequences, for example, are particularly potent.
And, while on one hand it exposes the sexual vulnerability of its female leads, it also shows how tough they can be.
I didn't think it would be Mrs W's cup of tea but she rated it 7/10. I was more inclined towards 6.
But I can understand how younger folk would be keener.
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: yes
Nudity: yes - the sort which would excite many a teenage boy.
Overall rating: 6.5/10
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