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Spring break flicks to relive party days
BY MAKENZIE WHITTLE • The Bulletin
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From left: Selena
Gomez, Ashley Ben-
son, Rachel Korine
and Vanessa Hud-
gens in a scene
from “Spring Break-
ers” (2012).
h, spring break. Time to hit the road, the beach or
the club for a week of parting and debauchery always
ending with a solid hangover and regret. Or at least
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that’s the way it seems in the movies. Personally, I spent my college
spring breaks at the Oregon Coast eating too much Mo’s clam
chowder permanently soaked with rain — not on far-away, palm
tree-lined beaches. If you’re like me, or this year’s spring break is
keeping you away from bronzing in the sun, relive those days with
five films full of booze-soaked misadventures.
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“22 Jump Street” (2014) — The fol-
low-up to the hit comedy based on the
1980s TV show of the same name is one
of the rare good sequels. For Jenko and
Schmidt (Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill),
two undercover cops, the mission is to pose
as college students to sniff out the supplier
of a party drug that killed a student. The
film relies on the friendship/bromance be-
tween Tatum and Hill’s characters, and that’s
what makes it such a fun watch. Is it a per-
fect sequel? No. Will you still have fun with
it if you liked the first? Probably. Stream it
on Hulu (with Live TV) or rent it on Am-
azon Prime, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu or
YouTube.
“Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never
Happened” (2019) and “Fyre Fraud” (2019)
— Both Netflix and Hulu had dueling doc-
umentaries made and released at the same
time about the now-infamous Fyre Festi-
val. Both showcase the ultimate mess that
the festival became as well as the interest-
ing personalities behind it. “Fyre Fraud”
(Hulu) has the one thing that Netflix’s doc
doesn’t — an interview with mastermind
Billy McFarland — and has a larger tone to
the entire film, which surrounds the tox-
icity of social media culture. “Fyre” (Net-
flix) has a more direct look at the ins and
outs of the failed festival in a “tell-all” style
with producers and festival goers that lets
each of them slowly dig themselves deeper
into their privileged behavior. While it’s not
specifically about spring break, it feels very
much in line with the rowdiness associated
with the week. Stream “Fyre: The Greatest
Party that Never Happened” on Netflix and
stream “Fyre Fraud” on Hulu.
“Ibiza” (2018) — Who says you can
have the stereotypical spring break trip if
you’re not in college? In this Netflix origi-
nal, 30-something Harper (Gillian Jacobs)
is stuck in a PR job where she isn’t appreci-
ated by her boss, so when an opportunity
to fly to Barcelona to secure a new client
comes up, she leaps at it and brings her best
friends along (Vanessa Bayer and Phoebe
Robinson). Once there, she meets DJ and
superstar Leo West (Richard Madden) and
the two have instant chemistry, but he leaves
for party town Ibiza before anything hap-
pens. Harper throws caution to the wind
and follows him. It’s a pretty typical comedy
that follows the same path of a lot of roman-
tic movies of the same ilk but still manages
to be a fun watch, if not anything special.
Stream it on Netflix.
“Spring Breakers” (2012) — The 93-min-
ute romp through the hedonistic misadven-
tures of four college girls may be on its way
towards cult status, but it is still incredibly
divisive with the crude and surface exploit-
ative premise. The Harmony Korine-written
and -directed film follows the spring break
trip in Florida (of course) of four college
friends (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens,
Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine), who get
wrapped up in the dealings of rapper and
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