Films like Holiday on Mars.

Holiday on Mars (2020) reads as Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. 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.

Naked (2017) poster
1. Naked2017

Keeps the gentle temperature and the running vein of humour; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Bad Johnson (2014) poster
2. Bad Johnson2014

Keeps the gentle temperature and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Once Upon a Crime (2023) poster
3. Once Upon a Crime2023

Keeps the gentle temperature and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil (2011) poster
4. Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil2011

Keeps the gentle temperature and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser (2015) poster
5. Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser2015

Keeps the gentle temperature and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry (2005) poster
6. Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry2005

Keeps the gentle temperature and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015) poster
7. Hot Tub Time Machine 22015

Keeps the gentle temperature and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Breaking Wind (2012) poster
8. Breaking Wind2012

Keeps the gentle temperature and the running vein of humour; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

The New Adventures of Aladdin (2015) poster
9. The New Adventures of Aladdin2015

Keeps the gentle temperature and the running vein of humour; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Iznogoud (2005) poster
10. Iznogoud2005

Keeps the gentle temperature and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Lovey-Dovey (2007) poster
11. Lovey-Dovey2007

Keeps the gentle temperature and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hot Bot (2016) poster
12. Hot Bot2016

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

These are Holiday on Mars’s neighbours — where are yours?

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