Spring Breakers – review
Harmony Korine shows how woozy and debauched the mainstream can be in a college-kid caper that is the weirdest, wildest film at Venice so far
4/5
Fans of Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens be warned: Spring Breakers is not the usual brand of Sunny Delight. Inside you will find perky Gomez – Unicef goodwill ambassador and significant other to Justin Bieber – smoking a bong and talking trash. Inside you shall find winsome Hudgens – formerly of High School Musical fame – toting a pistol and inviting the patrons of her local Chicken Shack to “give me your mother****ing money or I’m going to shoot your ****ing brains out”. It’s horrid, it’s ghastly, it’s bizarrely engrossing. Tween entertainment hasn’t undergone so radical a makeover since Pee-Wee Herman checked into that ****o theatre.