Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers” is such a ideal intent of a informative impulse — an age of sexualized girl and stylized assault — that it’s a contrition it’s not a improved movie.

And that might be a initial and final time anyone uses a word “shame” in tie with Korine’s self-consciously taboo-breaking drama.

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‘Spring Breakers’

Bad-boy executive Harmony Korine deploys some Disney-friendly actresses for a dim play in balmy Florida.

Where » Theaters everywhere.

When » Opens Friday, Mar 22

Rating » R for clever passionate content, language, nudity, drug use and assault throughout.

Running time » 94 minutes.

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Korine starts with images of open mangle on a Florida seashore — steady (and repetitive) shots of hunky immature organisation and chubby immature women jumping around in a surf, sucking down mixed beers. The women shake their butts and spasmodic unclothed their breasts, while a guys bearing their pelvises like they know what to do with them. The stage is each college kid’s dream and each parent’s nightmare.

To a movie’s 4 immature heroines — Brit (Ashley Benson), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Cotty (Rachel Korine) and Faith (Selena Gomez) — open mangle isn’t only a celebration though a sun-drenched shun from their drab lives. That’s because they’re so unfortunate to get out, even if it means Brit, Candy and Cotty have to sack a internal caf� to lift a income required to get there. “Just f—in’ fake it’s a video game. Act like you’re in a film or something,” one of a girls says to a others.

Faith is a odd-girl-out in a foursome, a member of a Christian girl organisation who calls a Florida seashore “the many devout place I’ve ever been.” At slightest that’s what she tells her grandmother in one of a movie’s unconstrained voice-overs, juxtaposed with images of a 4 girls merrymaking tough in a hotel room and, ultimately, sitting in a jail dungeon after a cops find cocaine.

The girls are bailed out by a rapping travel bully named Alien — played by James Franco, in a chameleonic opening finish with cornrows in his hair and grilles on his teeth. Alien’s strand palace is installed with drugs, money and weapons, and a girls (except Faith, who leaves early) are captivated to his rob and dangerous attitude. When Alien gets into a territory fight with a opposition drug play (played by rapper Gucci Mane), a ladies are vehement to go along for a bloody ride.

Korine, whose art-house repute includes essay a argumentative “Kids” and directing a nauseating “Trash Humpers,” relates a lot of visible panache to what is radically a candid exploitation scenario. With beautiful footage that captures a spring-break celebration stage in all a pale excess, he creates a skinny story seem like something meatier.

He does this generally by personification with a perceptions of performers who have done their skeleton in family-friendly confines. Except for Rachel Korine (the director’s wife), a actresses’ best-known work has been on Disney Channel — where Gomez’s “Wizards of Waverly Place” and Hudgens’ “High School Musical” aired — and ABC Family, home to Benson’s “Pretty Little Liars.” Franco, of course, is now raking in a bucks in Disney’s “Oz a Great and Powerful.”

Korine’s use of these stars is a bit of a cheat, generally for those who see a ads and design to see TV princesses in a buff. As for exposing a immature ladies’ depth, a film also leaves us wanting some impression traits besides bodacious bodies.

“Spring Breakers,” in a end, is all eye candy and small substance.

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