SPRING BREAKDOWN DVD Review

When it was announced in the trades that funny ladies Amy Poehler, Parker Posey and Rachel Dratch would be co-starring in a comedy about thirtysomething women going on spring break, I’ll admit, I got excited by the comic possibilities.

That was three years ago.

Since production wrapped in 2006, Spring Breakdown’s been sitting on Warner Brothers’ shelves far from any spring, summer – hell, even winter – light of day. To the Daily Variety crowd, this type of delay usually means creative breakdown, and since I position myself somewhere in this grouping, I was a bit wary of reviewing the likely disaster-piece upon its DTV release. So, I recruited my friend X-Tina (code name) to watch with me, since her excitement for the talent involved and ignorance about its delayed release saga helped renew my enthusiasm for Breakdown’s basic comic elements.