The story focuses on four college girls who enjoy taking drugs and living the party lifestyle, getting drunk and/or high and playing games with each other or singing songs together. During the end of their semester of college they discuss their desire of attending spring break out of town. Unfortunately they don't have enough money to travel. So three of the girls Brit (Ashley Benson), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens) and Cotty (Rachel Korine) decide to go out one night and rob a diner, excluding Faith (Selena Gomez). They arrive and successfully taunt and threaten the money out of customers and employees and drive off with enough money to get out of town. They arrive at Spring Break, and party taking drugs and getting drunk with jocks, however they find themselves arrested until a gangster white guy called Alien bails them out of jail taking them under his wing and showing them to his badass, thug-lifestyle. The girls start to find themselves in danger as one by one some of them take a bus back home leaving two of them left to help Alien do the unthinkable and embark on a deadly mission to target his antagonist at his crowded mansion.
In terms of casting I was pleased with the fact that former-Disney stars Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez were casted as such crazy rebellious girls. With James Franco showing us an even more gangster side of him since Pineapple Express.
The story is good. The plot is good. The casting choices are good. The soundtrack and cinematography is good. However, the editing is just over the top.
From the opening shot I cringed at what I saw. It is one of those movies that shows you something annoying and keeps going and going and repeating itself. Lines are repeated over and over again. The story is told with flash forwards and flashbacks with constant voice overs repeating annoying lines like "Spring Break" over and over again. This motif is cool at some parts but otherwise way too over done. I felt that the film tried too hard especially to change the way we see Hudgens and Franco in such a raw, materialistic, contrasting roles.
It is definitely enjoyable and worth watching but throughout you will find yourself cringing or even annoyed at the repetitiveness. (You'll know what I mean once you see it).
Selena Gomez definitely shined in this film and Rachel Korrine had her moments while the other actors just seemed like they were trying to hard.
To sum this up, it is a cool film with the right cast, yet it is edited in an over ambitious way. I love the idea and the concept but (I might get hated for saying this) I think it should have been directed by someone else and scripted and edited just a little bit differently and toned down while a lot of parts in the film was unnecessary. I decided to be nice and give this a 6/10. Despite my disappointment I still recommend you watch this. Its totally worth the watch.
In terms of casting I was pleased with the fact that former-Disney stars Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez were casted as such crazy rebellious girls. With James Franco showing us an even more gangster side of him since Pineapple Express.
The story is good. The plot is good. The casting choices are good. The soundtrack and cinematography is good. However, the editing is just over the top.
From the opening shot I cringed at what I saw. It is one of those movies that shows you something annoying and keeps going and going and repeating itself. Lines are repeated over and over again. The story is told with flash forwards and flashbacks with constant voice overs repeating annoying lines like "Spring Break" over and over again. This motif is cool at some parts but otherwise way too over done. I felt that the film tried too hard especially to change the way we see Hudgens and Franco in such a raw, materialistic, contrasting roles.
It is definitely enjoyable and worth watching but throughout you will find yourself cringing or even annoyed at the repetitiveness. (You'll know what I mean once you see it).
Selena Gomez definitely shined in this film and Rachel Korrine had her moments while the other actors just seemed like they were trying to hard.
To sum this up, it is a cool film with the right cast, yet it is edited in an over ambitious way. I love the idea and the concept but (I might get hated for saying this) I think it should have been directed by someone else and scripted and edited just a little bit differently and toned down while a lot of parts in the film was unnecessary. I decided to be nice and give this a 6/10. Despite my disappointment I still recommend you watch this. Its totally worth the watch.
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