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Was BattleBlock Theatre worth the wait?

promised that, at some point, games, Behemoth’s Battle Block all while trying to solve the
By Angela Espinoza, Arts Editor BattleBlock Theatre would come Theatre stars a cast of shape- mystery of what happened

there in terms of story and
platforming, and, well, it’s just

 

 

out. The team previously known _ specific headed folks who are to our friendly leader Hatty all around good fun!
gfe &e Se Sx Wx __ for Castle Crashers (2008) and cast away onto a prison island Hattington. BattleBlock Theatre is
a) Ge : > Alien Hominid (2004) finally got run by adorable cats in officer Adorable, hilarious, available on the Xbox Live
this baby out last Wednesday, uniforms. From there, these little | addicting—each of these words _— Arcade for $15, and is set to be
or the past four years, April 3. people are forced to perform applies to this very awesome released on other platforms in
developing company The Following the flash- for an audience by collecting wait of a game. BattleBlock is the near future.
Behemoth has continuously animated style of their previous — gems (the whole game is silly), very different from games out

‘Spring Breakers is a break from reality

By Avalon Doyle, Contributor

i

armony Korine’s latest
flick, Spring Breakers

(released March 29), is set in
sunny Florida to a backdrop of
hard-hitting dubstep and filled
with a plethora of cocaine-
fuelled, bikini-clad babes on
spring break. This may sound
like the beginning of a cinematic
masterpiece for young men
everywhere, but Korine takes
his viewers into a bizarre world
of pink ski mask wearing
sociopaths that becomes
anything but expected.

Spring Breakers is well-
represented with familiar
faces, featuring Selena Gomez
as good-girl Faith, Vanessa
Hudgens as Candy, Pretty Little
Liars’ Ashley Benson as Brit, and
Rachel Korine (Harmony’s wife)
as Cotty. The four play college
girls who resort to desperate
measures to make it to Tampa
for spring break. The most
surprising cast member is James
Franco as Alien, a white, drug-

dealing rapper. His character,
donning Hawaiian shirts and
an atrocious-looking platinum
grill, acts as a grotesque
representation of the capitalistic
American dream who rescues
the girls, only to get them into
deeper trouble. Although Alien
is wildly overdone, the talented
Franco makes the viewer believe
that Alien may, to the horror of
parents everywhere, actually
exist.

Korine shines in his ability
to show authentic-feeling
moments of wild inebriated
bliss that only cocaine and
alcohol induced intoxication
can achieve, despite entirely
missing the point of coherent
storytelling. But the real
success of Spring Breakers is
the way it leaves the viewer
feeling simultaneously amazed
and horrified in the leading
ladies’ insatiable appetites for
destructive thrill-seeking that
almost makes up for the film’s
tedious repetition.

So if you're looking to
escape exams for a short time,
this mind-numbing, wild ride
could be just the spring break
your brain needs.

i Lie A eS i

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James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine in Spring Breakers
Photo courtesy of IMDB

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