Selena Gomez's new movie Spring Breakers hits theaters Friday and has been receiving mixed reviews.

According to The Wall Street Journal, critics said the movie a pretty good fit but can also be viewed as debauched and trashy. Other critics claimed that it's also visceral and hypnotic.

"Spring Breakers' seems to be holding a funhouse mirror up to the face of youth-driven pop culture, leaving us uncertain whether to laugh, recoil in horror, or marvel at its strange beauty. All I knew is I couldn't wait to see it a second time," Scott Foundas of the Village Voice said.

Claudia Puig, film critic of USA Today, had a different opinion about the movie and didn't find it to be appealing at all: "Spring Breakers' is an exploitative display of bacchanalian excess, casual sex and rampant nudity that's more tedious than titillating."

The film centers on a group of four broke college girls, played by ex-Disney stars Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars) and Rachel Korine. Together they land in jail after robbing a restaurant so that they can pay for their spring break vacation.

The girls rob the eatery armed with squirt guns and a mini-sledgehammer, and the bikini-clad group heads down south for some fun in the sun. Things turn sour when they land in jail but they befriend a rapper/drug and arms dealer, Alien (James Franco), who recruits the girls to do some dirty work for him.

Spring Breakers received three and a half stars on IMDB.

Gomez said she was "excited" and "enticed" to be involved with the movie. Her role in the independent film also forced her to break out of her clean and innocent Disney Channel image.

"When I auditioned for Harmony, we talked about how he wanted to leave my lifestyle behind and have me go on this adventure with him. I knew it was going to be crazy, but I was comfortable with it," she said. "I was more uncomfortable in the scenes where I was (in a bikini) getting arrested, in jail and in the pool hall with strangers. It added vulnerability and helped me feel grossed out, which was what my character is supposed to feel."