* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" by Music/{{Skrillex}}, used in the opening scene.
** Also "Lights" by Music/EllieGoulding, which plays over the credits and matches the film's [[CrapsaccharineWorld simultaneously colorful and cold atmosphere]].
* BestKnownForTheFanservice: For some, the movie made the rounds solely for featuring hot young ladies in revealing clothing, even going naked in some cases.
* BrokenBase: The movie as a whole is massively polarizing, with the main focus concerning the rampant hedonism and {{Fanservice}}. Some critics and viewers see the movie as a {{Deconstruction}} of the hedonistic lifestyle by showing how empty, selfish, and self-destructive it is, especially considering [[spoiler: the moral characters [[PutOnABus leave safely]] while the bad ones either [[AssholeVictim die]] or [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster get in too deep to quit]]]]. Others believe it [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing glamorizes that kind of lifestyle]] and is borderline exploitive in its fanservice.
* CriticalDissonance: It seems most people don't like to share the critics' views, whose 65% on Rotten Tomatoes is contrasted with that community's 38% and IMDB's 5.3/10.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Even people who don't particularly care for the movie very much enjoyed Selena Gomez's performance as Faith, mainly for her NiceGirl status and [[SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct surprisingly strong performance]] (for those who prejudged her due to her Disney roles, anyways)
* HarsherInHindsight: Alien's anxious participation for a threesome with the young girls Candy and Brit and his caressing Faith's face and making her uncomfortable becomes this following actor James Franco's leaked online chats with a 17-year-old girl in 2014 as well as his sexual misconduct allegations in 2018.
* HilariousInHindsight: This film has been compared by many, many people to ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'', albeit with a present-day setting and its {{Villain Protagonist}}s being women. Come 2022, a massive ContentLeak revealed that the work-in-progress next ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' game will indeed be set in a modern-day take on Vice City, and moreover, one of its two confirmed playable characters will be a woman named Lucia, the first canonical female protagonist in the series' history.
* JustHereForGodzilla: Considering most of the internet's reaction to this movie, many people went to this movie to see Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens (and to a slightly lesser extent, Ashley Benson) [[SheIsAllGrownUp break out of their teen idol shells]], which can mean either genuinely observing their onscreen talents in a serious film or just [[BestKnownForTheFanservice coming for the bikinis and provocative camera angles]].
* {{Narm}}: Alien and the girls terrorizing other spring breakers while Music/BritneySpears plays in the background is supposed to be a disturbing juxtaposition. What makes the scene narmy are the weird things they do, such as shoving a person's face in a cake, and the facial expressions they give just makes it too funny. Could also count as NarmCharm.
* NauseaFuel: Some of the shots can have this effect on people.
* SpiritualAdaptation: It's either the best adaptation of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' ever made, or a {{deconstruction}} of such. It's got the Florida setting, the neon-drenched style that heavily evokes TheEighties (despite being set in the present day), the {{sociopathic|Hero}} {{Villain Protagonist}}s running headfirst across the MoralEventHorizon because "spring break, bitches!", and the winking self-awareness of its own "gangsta" attitude.
* {{Tearjerker}}:
** Faith's breakdown about halfway through the movie is pretty sad, [[spoiler: as she keeps weeping about how she wants to go home and begs her friends to come with her. They don't.]]
** Cotty's ShowerOfAngst after [[spoiler: getting shot in the arm, followed up by her going back home.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The conflict and past between Alien and Archie would have made for some good CharacterDevelopment for the former, but the movie doesn't do much with that in favor of the girls' exploits.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: It's already introduced in the beginning that there are no genuinely nice people in this film with the exception of Faith, but by the time [[spoiler: she and Cotty]] are PutOnABus, there seems to be no more redeemable people left. And with [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridges dropped everywhere]] in the climax, the only people left are a pair of [[ManipulativeBitch Manipulative]] [[KarmaHoudini Karma Houdinis.]]
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Cotty. While her ShowerOfAngst is meant to be a {{Tearjerker}} as mentioned above, a lot of fans felt indifferent at best considering she happily went along with every thing the group was doing up until it had some negative ramifications on her.
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