Been Watching: Mardi Gras: Spring Break (2011)

  Bump and Scottie are two college boys who are ready and willing to indulge in the time honoured college traditions of screwing everything that moves. A pity that the ladies are not so eager to play.
 After naked streaking fails to bring in the expected flood of partying hotties our two hapless losers set their sights on the greatest party in the world: Mardi Gras.
 Their mate Mike isn't so keen, After all, he has a lovely girlfriend but since she's out of town at her grandad's funeral  he allows himself to be talked into a trip down to Louisiana.
 Once they arrive, the three will discover that Mike's girlfriend Lucy wasn't exactly telling the truth about where she was, finally manage to get into the ultimate party and do alarming things to each other with a banana.

 Carmen Electra has spent the last decade or so being strategically parachuted into films to provide fanservice so I was sort of curious to see how she fared  in a  rare starring role. 
  The DVD cover is a lying bastard. If Carmen is in this film for more than twenty five minutes tops I'd be amazed and once again she's mostly there to look good.
  I have to wonder how actual stars Nicholas D'Agosto, Josh Gad and Bret Harrison felt when they saw how the DVD cover completely fails to mention them in any way. Given what they have to work with they do a decent job and much bigger names have more embarrassing things in their CV.  
   The plot is not exactly treading new ground. The lads arrive in New Orleans ready to party hard but it quickly goes horribly wrong and after enduring one humiliation after another the group hit rock bottom with the definite possibilty of the friendship imploding.
 But then, thanks to good fortune and some women who are prepared to look past the defects, it all comes right by the final scene. Everybody is paired up and loved up: Roll out-take reel and credits.
 Like I said: Nothing too out of the ordinary and nothing that "The Inbetweeners" didn't do much better.
 At heart a lot of these films are - once you get past the turd jokes, the gratuitous tits and buffoonery - a romantic tale of a boy meeting the girl he needs rather than the one he wants.
 Even the fat guy who's spent the entire film being an asshole.
Ain't it sweet?

 So, whoever though this film was funnier than "The Hangover" is utterly insane. "Mardis Gras; Spring Break" isn't even funnier than the American Pie straight-to-DVD films.
  Watch if it comes on Channel 5 and there's nothing better on or if you find it cheap at a car-boot but I wouldn't bother renting it.
 Go rent "Porky's" instead. Pretty much the same jokes but done 30 years ago.