Just How Dirty Do Selena Gomez And Vanessa Hudgens Get In Spring Breakers?

On the surface Spring Breakers, playing at the Toronto Film Festival right now, looks like the kind of movie you might expect Disney tween stars to graduate into once they're of legal age and their fans have grown up a bit too. The basic premise is as old as Anne Funicello beach movies-- four girls scrape together the cash to take a beach vacation, get into misadventures, learn about themselves.

But there's a curdled, dark and sometimes very funny core to Spring Breakers that will stun anyone who walks in expecting to see Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez in their first grown-up roles. The girls are grown-up, alright, but Spring Breakers exists to twist that idea and even parody the whole tradition of spring break movies-- while also encouraging the girls to indulge in all the stereotypical bad behavior. Just how shocking do these Disney Channel starlets get?

Hooking up with a guy in cornrows who calls himself Alien and who is played by James Franco.

The first half of Spring Breakers is a repetitive, almost hypnotic spin on the modern beachside tradition, with lurid shots of the girls drinking jarringly coupled with Selena Gomez's character in voiceover, talking about how "special" this place is. Then halfway through the girls team up with James Franco's Alien-- yet another completely wild and subtly hilarious character from the ever-unpredictable Franco-- and that's where the movie finally gets interesting. And also the kind of thing that would give any parent of tweens an aneurysm.

Cocaine.

Again, pretty standard MTV-level behavior, though when the girls sniff it off each others' bodies, they're surely taking it to the next level.

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