'Spring Breakers' Opens to Mostly Positive Reviews

The movie 'Spring Breakers', which was shot at various places in the Tampa Bay area, including Corey Avenue and at the Gulfport Police Department, opened in limited release Friday to mostly positive reviews. 

According to the site Rotten Tomatoes, which compiles the average of 'fresh' and 'rotten' reviews, has certified 'Spring Breakers' as fresh with 70 percent positive reviews. 

"Spring Breakers blends stinging social commentary with bikini cheesecake and a bravura James Franco performance, the website wrote." 

Metacritic scored the movie a 64 out of 100. 

'Spring Breakers', according to according to IMDB, is about, "Four college girls who land in jail after robbing a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation find themselves bailed out by a drug and arms dealer who wants them to do some dirty work."

Peter Travers with Rolling Stone Magazine wrote, "Spring Breakers, beach-party fluff done as an art film by the reliably bizarre Harmony Korine, is a return to form for (James) Franco."

"[Korine] turns his exploration into such a gonzo, outrageously funny party that it takes a while to appreciate that this is more of a horror film than a comedy," writes Manohla Dargis of the New York Times.

Not all of the reviews were positive, though, just ask the New York Post critic Lue Lumenick. 

"Basically a 'Girls Gone Wild' short artily padded out to feature-length by endlessly repeating the same scenes and lines of dialogue, often three or more times," he wrote. 

'Spring Breakers' opened to a limited release March 15 (none in the St. Petersburg area) and will be released nationally on March 22. 

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