Films like Mardi Gras: Spring Break.

Mardi Gras: Spring Break (2011) reads as Warm, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation (2008) poster
1. Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Celebrity Sex Tape (2012) poster
2. Celebrity Sex Tape2012

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Senior Skip Day (2008) poster
3. Senior Skip Day2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Wieners (2008) poster
4. Wieners2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

American Virgin (2009) poster
5. American Virgin2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Road Trip: Beer Pong (2009) poster
6. Road Trip: Beer Pong2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

#1 Cheerleader Camp (2010) poster
7. #1 Cheerleader Camp2010

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009) poster
8. Van Wilder: Freshman Year2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Pledge This! (2007) poster
9. Pledge This!2007

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

18 Year Old Virgin (2009) poster
10. 18 Year Old Virgin2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Long Weekend (2005) poster
11. The Long Weekend2005

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Miss March (2009) poster
12. Miss March2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Mardi Gras: Spring Break’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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