Four college girls (Faith, Candy, Brit, and Cotty, played by Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine, respectively) really want to go to Florida for spring break, but they don't have enough money (though most of them seem to snort cocaine fairly regularly, which I don't think is cheap, so...yeah). Candy, Brit, and Cotty hold up a chicken shack to get the money, and the four of them take off on a bus. At first, the trip (robbery aside, of course) is mostly the standard spring break debauchery you see on MTV and such; however, things take a turn for the worse when the four girls are arrested for drugs and bailed out by a guy who calls himself Alien (James Franco). Alien has a house full of guns and drugs and claims to have done pretty much every illegal thing there is for money. Faith, who has been shown attending meetings of a college church group and who has been calling her grandmother regularly on the trip, realizes pretty quickly that this is a bad scene and takes a bus home. It takes being shot in the arm for Cotty to bail. There are indications that Candy and Brit plan to leave near the end of the movie, but not before they get in crazy deep. At one point, there is a truly bizarre sequence that starts with James Franco playing Britney Spears's "Everytime" while Candy, Britt, and Cotty dance around him wearing pink ski masks and holding machine guns.
I wasn't totally sure what to make of all of it, though I know for sure I didn't enjoy it. Faith seems basically to be a fairly normal college girl who gets mixed up in the wrong crowd. The other girls are basically sociopaths. There are some voiceovers about the girls going on the trip to "find themselves," and if that's true at ANY point on the trip, that's really messed up. I only cared about Faith, and it was impossible to know where the movie was going after a point...yeah. I didn't like it.
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