What do you get when you put James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Ann Hudgens, Rachel Korine, and Ashley Benson in a movie where they kill people? I'll tell you what you get - BRILLIANCE. Yes, you read that right, and no, I'm not being funny or implying that this movie is so-bad-it's-good. No, this is a movie that everyone should watch, as an experience unlike anything I've watched.
The story follows these four girls as they go on their dream spring break together. Gomez, playing the particularly naive one, doesn't seem to really understand what her closest friends are really after, and almost brushes off the truth that they robbed a bank with fake guns to get the money to go on this trip. After being arrested on the trip, they're bailed out by Alien, a bizarre con-man played by James Franco.
The truth is, this movie leaves you uneasy about how to feel at all about Alien. Was he really manipulating these girls? Did he really care about them? Was this all a ploy, or did it start as one and becoming something more special in a twisted way? I don't know. I can see arguments for both.
This movie manages to balance exactly what we picture in a spring break - beer, boobs, and bongs - with an unbelievably brilliant sense of direction. Amazing camera work, a haunting musical score, a perpetually intriguing story, and a strange sense of satisfaction by the end. In short, this is an intriguing idea for a movie, and it works unbelievably well. My good friend Derek said that while this wasn't his favorite movie ever, he called it his "favorite thing ever". I think that's a pretty great way of putting it.
Rank - 4/5
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