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marc brown 2012-05-23 12:56:38

St. Trinians. The school to be avoided in the film to be avoided!!!

"Chaved up" for the millennium comes a timely if unwanted remake of the'St. Trinian' films of the sixties. St. Trinians is the worst school inthe country known for bad grades and unruly behaviour and an equallyeccentric and unruly headmistress, Miss. Fritton, it's targeted forsevere investigation by Education new broom Geoffrey Thwaites. With thebank looming round the door, things pad out even worse for the school.Even Fritton's caddish brother plans to twist the knife to make moneyfrom the school's misfortune, even with his daughter's recentenrolment. This as such serves the plot for the unruly behaviour toring out, cue a bizarre heist, a "University Challenge" style quiz andgeneral anarchy in the name of saving the school. But it's here'Trinians' is woefully misguided. What was considered anarchy andamusingly unusual behaviour in the time of the original films, simplyis the teenage norm now. Drug-peddling, booze loving, flirtatiousschoolgirls are more a problem these days then a source for comedy sothe underlying tone becomes somewhat sinister. The film tries to haveit's cake and eat it. Drinking is only implied by kids, never actuallyseen and only older characters are seen dispensing 'uppers' and'downers' to unwitting participants for 'amusing results'. 'Poshytotty' flirt and dress provocatively but never actually are seen in anembrace. It's this kind of humour which proves even worse baring inmind it's target audience. It takes the film to a seedy and unpleasantlevel, pitching knowing drug-jokes at kids, many of which ask us tolaugh at people 'buzzing' many of whom have had drinks spiked.Definitely the films lowest low. Family friendly? I don't think so....How this film ended up with a '12a' certificate in the UK is beyond me!Add to this unwanted sexual jokes and you have a film far too adult forkids but too childish for adults. Of course, with some nifty directionand timing, 'Trinians' could maybe make this fly, but the film hasneither. The characterisation poor, the plot threadbare, painfullypredictable and struggling to add up. The resolvent of the key heistrendered pointless when the exact object of theft isn't even needed.Even when 'Trinians' is aiming for smart it fails. Numerous 'Girl WithA Pearl Earring' jokes are no doubt lost on it's key audience, probablythankfully as they are of 'christmas cracker' standard at best. ColinFirth is top of his game in a film you'd assume he'd be out of placein, TV personality, Russell Brand, you'd believe has been thrust intothe proceedings to score some street cred, but thankfully is more thanacceptable but the usually excellent Rupert Everett is hamming it upjust a notch too much here. Kudos go to it's teenage cast (one has toweep at the already pretty Talulah Riley, given a 'slutted-up' makeoverin one scene). Overall the acting is decent, making even the worst oflines bearable. The film tries to whip up a frenzy of enthusiasm andfun, but as UK girl group Girls Aloud stomp on in the finale shouting asong about 'discount rates for Chavs and their mates' you pretty muchfeel the whole thing is just tawdry and cheap. Much like it's level ofhumour and even more upset tingly, it's level of decency.

2012-05-23 03:13:17

I'm not sure if it's worth it

This new St. Trinian's is not all bad, but as the title of this review says, I'm not sure it's worth spending the money to buy it. I did, because I don't rent movies anymore and I have all the other St. Trinian's movies (the original 1950's ones - Belles, Pure Hell, Blue Murder & Great Train Robbery) and this one does try to follow in the same vein as the originals - unfortunately, whilst sexual innuendo and nudity was shocking in the 50's, its pretty much par for the course now, so it doesn't really work. Also, as much as I adore Rupert Everett, he just doesn't have it. He plays the dual roles of Miss Fritton, Headmistress of St. Trinian's girls school and her brother, a notorious art dealer. The school is in financial ruin and so the girls hatch a plan to steal a valuable piece of art and sell it to Mr Fritton, using a school quiz show as a cover.Rupert is in fine form and his understated portrayal of Miss Fritton is good, but he just doesn't come off as feminine as Alastair Sim did in the original.However, this is more than made up for by Colin Firth, who shows his comedic talent is more than equal to his romantic, playing the Education Minister out to shut the school down (and former lover of Miss Fritton). He has some great moments and, if you like British actors, do keep your eye out for Stephen Fry, who is great as the slightly drunken quizmaster of the school quiz.I'll be honest with you - I laughed at this movie in places (mostly at Colin Firth and Stephen Fry) but for most of it I just sat and watched. Then I watched the deleted scenes and thought how much more sense the movie would have made if they hadn't cut them out.If you want to while away a few hours watching 16 year old girls in tight skirts and/or goth makeup and 14 year old girls making alcohol in the school chemistry lab, then rent this movie. You'll have a pleasant time and you won't be bored.But please don't buy it - not even for Colin Firth and Stephen Fry.

screentalent 2012-05-22 03:52:17

suspicious reviews

Interesting how fab-46 and fxteam 1 have never posted on here ANDmanaged to have seen the film before its release AND both wrote glowingreviews. They are plants, and some of their inside terminology gives itaway.You've really got to wonder for how much longer the British filmindustry can continue its slow slide into oblivion, when it keepsproducing loss-making garbage like this. But then again, with the levelof state funding that abominations like this mysteriously continue toreceive, perhaps the slide can and will continue indefinitely. A verydepressing thought.

joisepeterson 2012-05-21 19:52:20

Enjoyed this film, word of warning.

Based on the creation by Ronald Searle and the movie The Belles of StTrinian's (1954). This current verison of the naughtiest school inBritain has a more current flavor. I personally have only seen snippetsof the other St Trinian's films the last being in 1980.The story takes place with headmistress Camilla Fritton who has beenheadmistress of St Trinian's for the past fifteen years, most likelytaking over from her aunt. The school has run out of funds and the bankis on the burst of foreclosing the school. Along the way Fritton'sniece Annabelle arrives from Cheltam Ladies College. She seems to beout of place in a school which has wild ten year olds and teen girlswho are in their own clicks.This film is a blast to watch for most ages. My eight year old cousinwatched this with me and enjoyed the hockey game and the scene were thechav, geek and head girl do their mission.Words of warning. There is many current culture references and thisincludes drugs and sex.In one scene, the first year girls are making vodka, the emos makeesctasy pills. Miss Fritton in one scene is smoking a joint.One of the clicks is seen in their lingere and one is talking on aphone sex chatline. Even saying that she likes it "Greek" style. Whileanother student is seen running her finger and thumb over her lipssuggesting oral sex.My cousin was oblivious to the above.I really enjoyed this movie and St Trinian's is the first movie to comeup with the naughty school girl fantasy.

2012-05-13 17:18:49

very gd!

its a great chick flick with loads of bitching and humour. it definently rips it out of different clicks which is hilarious. even though it is ripping it out of teenagers it also rips it out of the adults as well!a real gd chick flick which brings the real girl out of you!

fab-46 2012-05-13 13:43:33

Wickedly brilliant Brit flick!

I have just returned from a preview screening of Ealing Studio's newfilm- a continuation of the St. Trinian's franchise which last had anouting in the 1960s, and I have to say it is the most fun i've had in acinema for AGES!Re-inventing the twee originals St. Trinian's has been brought into themodern day with a bang! With Goths, Emos, Posh Tottie, Chavs and Geeksgalore they don't miss anything out! Right from the start as one of themain girls is driven upto the school for the first time past a car inflames you know you're going to be in for a riot! The production designwas brilliant- there was so much to look at and laugh at- it must havetaken days to dress each set! Rupert Everett and Colin Firth make a brilliant team- they bounce offeach other and give the film a great heart- Rupert in drag is a sightto see- I wonder if Camilla PB has seen it yet- because he's got herdown brilliantly! Russell Brand really shows that he can act anddeliver other people's funny lines- you really look forward to himcropping up throughout the film.The girls are brilliant- they all hit their laughs and are never tooover the top. Gemma Atherton is superb as is Paloma (?) who plays oneof the Emos. All in all- I laughed from start to finish- it's a great film for thefamily this Christmas that is 10x funnier than the disappointingEnchanted that really wasn't the family film of the decade as Disneywould like us to believe. Go and see it- if u've got kids they'lldefinitely thank you for it- or if not just go and see it to escape theChristmas shopping, families and wrapping paper this weekend! You won'tbe disappointed!Best British film since the Full Monty!

JoeytheBrit 2012-05-13 18:53:29

This film should stand in a corner with a dunce cap on its head

As an Englishman of a certain age I have quite fond memories of the St.Trinian's films from the fifties and sixties. I remember when I wasabout nine-years-old we were given a screening of the Great St.Trinians Train Robbery as an end-of-term treat. How we laughed: StTrinian's wildcats and Reg Varney. Happy days…Of course, the trouble with happy days is that, for whatever reason, wehave a tendency to try and recapture them. Invariably these attemptsmeet with little success. In the case of this hapless remake,unburdened by either touches of humour or originality, we have what canonly be described as an unqualified disaster. Back in the fifties wehad Arthur Cole as Flash Harry, a character introduced by tinkly pianoscore. Flash Harry was the precursor of Arthur Daley – in fact ArthurDaley might as well have been Harry thirty years on, forced to changehis name because of some ill-fated dodgy job – and he was as lovable ashe was roguish. Today we get that witless oaf Russell Brand; robbed ofthe opportunity to be as juvenilely offensive as he usually is, Brandis forced to fall back on acting skills which are pretty muchnon-existent. Fortunately, he simply disappears after a while, but eventwo minutes of screen time would be too much for him.Alec Guinness is replaced by Rupert Everett and, sad to say, RupertEverett could never replace Alec Guinness. I mean, what were theythinking? Guinness's headmistress was a sexless creature even if shewas occasionally flirtatious, but Everett's has the hots for educationminister Colin Firth. They even share a post-coital bed together, whichis something that would be more at home in a horror movie than aso-called comedy. To be fair to Everett, he gives it his best, butthere isn't much he can do with a second-rate script and flatdirection. The only time the film comes remotely close to raising theghost of a smile is when it references other films – something it doeswith increasing frequency as it struggles – and fails – to generate anylaughs of its own making.

collipal-1 2012-05-13 02:01:41

A brilliant juvenile comedy

I remember that between the late 90's and early 2000's,the juvenilecomedies experimented a boom (independently of the quality of thefilms) and there were a lot of films with teenagers facing the normalproblems of their age,from the eternal search of a romantic friendshipto the juxtaposition of the Shakespearian comedy in the high school(well,the conflicts may not were too normal).After the horror andscience fiction,the juvenile comedy is my favourite genre,although I'mthe first one to admit that it deserves many times the harsh reviews itreceives.But,because of the appreciation I have for that genre,I use toignore the clichés and absurd stories when the films result funny or ifthey have ingenious elements which give new life to thegenre.Nowadays,it seems the juvenile comedies can only be found on thestraight-to-DVD market,with the atrocious sequels of American Pie andintolerable crap like Foreign Exchange or Cougar Club.On the commercialcinema,there are not too many juvenile comedies but,last year,theexcellent film Superbad fit on the style established by joys like Can'tHardly Wait,Bring it On,Clueless and the films written and directed bythe great John Hughes.Last year,directors Oliver Parker and BarnabyThompson decided to resurrect a series of British juvenile comedieswhich had started in 1954 with The Belles of St. Trinian's and hadended in 1980 with The Wildcats of St. Trinian's,which had beenrepudiated because of their lack of humor and excessive lust.But now,inthe new century,that kind of juvenile comedies resurrect with thebrilliant film St. Trinian's,which is a return to the subversive andextremely acid tone of its previous films,brutally laughing of theBritish conventions.This movie tells an excellent story and all thedetails it has take it to a high level of greatness.This film couldhave easily been offensive,but it is not like that because the naughtytone of the film kills any possibility of offense,so its most extremecharacters become on funny exaggerations which should not be takenseriously...they are just a humorous subversion taken to a sublimatelevel which we could NEVER see on a North American film.St. Trinian'sis a brilliant juvenile comedy and one of the most funny and subversivefilms I have seen on recent years.This is one of that occult joys inthe world of cinema and it is good to know that movies like this oneexist.So,this movie deserves a recommendation,not only to aficionadosof juvenile comedies,but also to aficionados of the good cinema.

collipal-1 2012-05-11 20:21:51

A brilliant juvenile comedy

I remember that between the late 90's and early 2000's,the juvenilecomedies experimented a boom (independently of the quality of thefilms) and there were a lot of films with teenagers facing the normalproblems of their age,from the eternal search of a romantic friendshipto the juxtaposition of the Shakespearian comedy in the high school(well,the conflicts may not were too normal).After the horror andscience fiction,the juvenile comedy is my favourite genre,although I'mthe first one to admit that it deserves many times the harsh reviews itreceives.But,because of the appreciation I have for that genre,I use toignore the clichés and absurd stories when the films result funny or ifthey have ingenious elements which give new life to thegenre.Nowadays,it seems the juvenile comedies can only be found on thestraight-to-DVD market,with the atrocious sequels of American Pie andintolerable crap like Foreign Exchange or Cougar Club.On the commercialcinema,there are not too many juvenile comedies but,last year,theexcellent film Superbad fit on the style established by gems like Can'tHardly Wait,Bring it On,Clueless and the films written and directed bythe great John Hughes.Last year,co-screenwriters Piers Ashworth andNick Moorcroft decided to resurrect a series of British juvenilecomedies which had started in 1954 with The Belles of St. Trinian's andhad ended in 1980 with The Wildcats of St. Trinian's,which had beenrepudiated because of their lack of humor and excessive lust.But now,inthe new century,that kind of juvenile comedies resurrect with thebrilliant film St. Trinian's,which is a return to the subversive andextremely acid tone of its previous films,brutally laughing of theBritish conventions.This movie tells an excellent story and all thedetails it has take it to a high level of greatness.This film couldhave easily been offensive,but it is not like that because the naughtytone of the film kills any possibility of offense,so its most extremecharacters become on funny exaggerations which should not be takenseriously...they are just a humorous subversion taken to a sublimatelevel which we could NEVER see on a North American film.St. Trinian'sis a brilliant juvenile comedy and one of the most funny and subversivefilms I have seen on recent years.This is one of that occult joys inthe world of cinema and it is good to know that movies like this oneexist.So,this movie deserves a recommendation,not only to aficionadosof juvenile comedies,but also to aficionados of the good cinema.

break_even1 2012-05-11 15:46:09

British Class turns to British Crass

St Trinians has wasted an hour of my life (we walked out out of sheerhorror eventually) A lacklustre, solid display of poor script, plot andgeneral film knowledge on show. British comedy has seen its fair shareof slapstick and puns, sexual innuendo gags and dry wit... but Carry Onstars will look away in embarrassment from the poor excuses that getwheeled out time after time during the film. Usually in places wherethere is no need for it but the script is so derived of any humour itseems like it HAS to be done. Hated this more than any other film Ihave ever seen! Good luck to anyone who thinks their in for a treat orhave read reviews saying similar to me and want to prove me and themwrong, its not going to happen. Spice Girls The Movie was the worst ofthe worst... now welcome its successor, St Trinians.

McTeige 2012-05-10 03:08:56

Rubbish

Most definitely one of the worst films i have ever had the misfortuneto watch. With all the wonderful comedy the world of film can deliver,how can this survive?! How did the directors, writers and editors seethat this was a good movie? I just cant understand the mentality thatthey and the distributors saw this as good enough to show the payingpublic. What Colin Firth was doing is beyond me, he is a fine actor,but Rupert Everett deserves this tat. His unfunny imitations ofbasically Charles and Camilla will hopefully ruin any hope for himreceiving any future honours when Charles becomes king...not that heever deserved any. I loved that bit in Stardust when he got thrown outthe window onto the rocks below. Best bit of the film.

dukevega 2012-05-09 17:46:57

Good Fun, But Missing Something

I checked this film out after it was recommended to me by anacquaintance from England. Apparently it is quite big over there buthasn't managed to cross the Atlantic. Anyway, I will admit it had meintrigued, the idea of naughty English schoolgirls.For the most part it is good fun and the girls take it about as far asthey can go. The problem I had with the story is that aside from thepossibility of losing their school due to lack of funds, there was noreal raising of the stakes, no serious obstacles for the girls toovercome. Sure, there were some difficulties along the way, but thegirls overcame them with a little luck and some judicious use of fieldhockey sticks.But still, if you like the idea of English schoolgirls behaving badly,then this is right up your alley.

deadthevideo 2012-05-07 18:56:00

Humorous and funny

I found this humorous and funny. It was one of those movies that Ididn't think that I would like but I was surprised to find that Ienjoyed it. This remake was a case of keeping with the times as itcombined elements of the old movies with references to movies andprogrammes of today. I also liked the strong references to Pride andPrejudice and Girl with a Pearl Earring, as Colin Firth was in this andand those other two. My favourite scene in the film was the hockeyscene with the girls taking on a rival school team who like to playrough. The only thing wrong is Russell Brand. His portrayal of FlashHarry is 'pervert' than 'cockney wideboy'.

allandray 2012-05-07 07:15:59

Brave Effort

I saw the film yesterday and whilst not being the funniest film evermade I liked it and thought both Rupert Everett, doing an homage to thelate great Alastair Sim in a double role (including the cross-dresserrole as the Headmistress and Colin Firth's unlikely love interest), andColin Firth were particularly good and show a particular aptitude forcomedy (which we know already from "My Best Friend" and "BridgetJones"). There are two allusions to Firth the actor - one when he isthrown out of the window from the Posh Totty room after he isdiscovered there with his trousers around his ankles (don't ask!) andemerges dripping wet a la BBC-2's "Pride and Prejudice" (MissFritton's, the Headmistress', dog, who develops a fondness for Firth'sleg is also called "Mr D'Arcy" after Firth's character in "P & P").The other allusion is to the painting "The Girl with the Pearl Earring"which looms large in the plot and in the film version of whose creationFirth, of course, played the artist Vermeer. There are two referencesto the film in this: when the Head Girl, Kelly Jones, played by GemmaArteton (another excellent performance) suggests stealing it she is metwith the response: "You're not going to kidnap Scarlett Johanssen!" andwhen two of the St Trinians' girls first see the picture it elicits theresponse: "I can see now why Colin Firth wanted to shag her!" For filmtrivia buffs I wonder how many films there are in which one of thecharacters is referred to by his real name (the only ones I can thinkof are Bob Hope's insulting references to Bing Crosby in the "Road"movies).I can see that this will not be to everybody's taste as the jokes arein the broad, vulgar "Carry On" tradition (but still more tasteful thanthe breaking-wind and "T & A" humour of US campus comedies that haveprovided the bulk of cinematic comedy offerings in recent years). Itwill not appeal to the puritanical or the politically correct or thosewho see child abuse at every turn (I suggest you don't go to see thismovie in that case) although a film which shows girls as resourcefuland self-reliant as well as funny doesn't seem to be aiding orencouraging abuse, quite the contrary.For those (of us) who like watching attractive girls (who aredefinitely over-age - check them out on this website) dressing up inabbreviated school uniforms there is, I admit, an attraction but whichhas to be sustained by a good script and good acting (which theprevious one in the series "The Wildcats of St Trinians" in 1980definitely didn't do despite its resort to Page 3 girls and barebreasts - which the latest in the series avoids) I liked the in-joke ofdeliberately dressing down the doll-faced supermodel Lily Cole, wholooks far more provocative and child-like on the catwalk, by having herplay one of "the nerdy girls" and a bespectacled computer geek.It obviously lacked the wit and charm of Stephen Fry's "Bright YoungThings" (the best British comedy, IMO, of recent years)although it doesfeature the excellent Fenella Woolgar, who appeared in that film butwho is disgracefully under-used in this in a walk-on part as the hockeymistress. Others might also spot Juno Temple who features in the recent"Atonement".My heart started to warm to this film when I saw the legend "EalingStudios" in the opening credits. No, this isn't "The Lavender Hill Mob"and no one could rationally suggest it ever could be but at least it'sa British film set in Britain with a British cast (with the exceptionof Mischa Barton in one scene as the previous Head Girl, who does enterinto the spirit of the piece with surprising élan) and with actors suchas Stephen Fry and Russell Brand (in a surprisingly good supportingrole as the Flash Harry character originally created by George Cole)little known to transatlantic cinema-goers but well-known to British TVaudiences.All-in-all a creditable revival of a genre that many had thought(rightly or wrongly) the Age of PC had made permanently extinct.

2012-05-05 23:44:49

Rebirth of a classic British comedy.

St. Trinian's School for Young Ladies was first introduced to the world in the cartoons of Ronald Searle in 1940. Scheming, drinking, gambling, larceny, black mail and a complete disregard for authority are the stock in trade of the curriculum. It is a place best described as in a world where most schools send their unsuspecting girls out to the merciless world. The young ladies who leave St. Trinians descend mercilessly on the unsuspecting world!Like the cartoons of Charles Adams, St Trinians was too big to be contained in print and over time has burst onto the big screen, most notably with Alistair Simm, in drag, as the head mistress of the school in several 1950's films. Now Rupert Everett has put on a dress and bad wig and taken anarchy's answer to Hogwarts back to the big screen.True to the older films St Trinians is caught in a peril of having her mortgage foreclosed while education Minister, Colin Firth, is determined to make a name for himself with the media by shutting down St. Trinians as a failed school by exposing all of her flaws. A government Minister vs. a poor school for young girls? The he doesn't have a clue with whom he's picked a fight with.The film is fun but there are some problems. Reintroducing the series to new viewers, time is spent on exposition as the `new girl' is introduced to the school and this drags a little. Similarly some of the deleted scenes should have been included in the main film. Sure they add a little length but they do clarify some key plot points, most notably why the new girl is suddenly accepted into the ranks. Lastly in the older films it was never clear if Alistair Simm's head mistress was really a woman. Rupert Everett's character clearly is a `real' woman, bog ugly, but real. It fit with the quirky sense of the original films that it was never really clear if Simm's head mistress was really a man in drag or just a truly ugly woman. I felt a small sense of lessening in the sense of the school to lose that quirky question mark.That having been said I loved this film but I'm English. It was not released in American theatres and I think this was a wise choice as there is a lot of cultureal baggage that many Americans would not get. If you are British or are a big anglophile or just love quirky British comedies then this is a great buy. If you're not then this will be a disappointment as you get confused by many of the references.

graestella 2012-05-05 19:14:48

Mostly Excellent

I was pleasantly surprised by this one. I usually stay away fromBritish comedy films as they are always awful. The young unknowns inthe cast were superb and will surely be seen again. Rupert Everett andColin Firth were both great. Why was the brilliant Lena Heady givenabout three scenes ? Was she only on set for a week ? Back from thestates where she was filming the Terminator series perhaps ? The plot was bearable and the jokes just about funny. ( However Irecall really funny movies like Crocodile Dundee - where the laughterin the cinema was deafening. This raised hardly a titter ) My onlyproblem was the amount of drug abuse in it. How on earth did it get a12a ? At least five characters were spiked. How do you explain this toyour child sitting with you in the cinema ? I found this doublydisappointing as it soured the otherwise health promoting message ofthe film. i.e. girls being independent and different, by having themtake drugs which are anything but. There were no rappers, pimps or guntoting gangsters in the film, so why include their negative drug taking?

2012-05-05 00:16:12

Uninspired but not Unwatchable

Rupert Everett's goofily winning dual performance- as slimy art dealer Carnaby Fritton and as his twin sister Headmistress Camilla Fritton- is the only high point in an otherwise thoroughly forgettable film.St. Trinian's ("like Hogwart's for pikeys"), is failing. Half a million pounds in debt and the prime target of the new Minister of Education (Firth) and his crusade to clean up England's schools, the girls must put aside their differences to save their school or else risk going to a 'normal' school. This move would surely negatively impact their bootleg vodka and designer tampon businesses.The problems begin with the script; populated by poorly sketched characters and a story that stirs few emotions. The primary mistake is simply the attempt to cram too much into this feeble frame. The 'belles' of St. Trinian's are divided into stereotypical (and tired) cliques, but beyond the obvious superficial differences, these groups are basically interchangeable and provide very few surprises.The various female leads are solid, but unremarkable. Gemma Arterton is a lone stand out- she exudes a smoky, dangerous and clever sex appeal.There is a lack of memorable sequences and a number that fall flat due to sub-par direction and/or editing. One brief sequence early in the film involves the new girl being tarred and feathered, however, it is so poorly edited, I momentarily thought I was watching a montage of several mornings' worth of hazing.Cameos by Stephen Fry and Russell Brand add little and are not as funny as the film believes them to be.There is one bright point in an unexpected little twist in the "Ocean's Eleven"-inspired heist subplot but it does not redeem this limp and tepid entry.If you are NOT a fan of British entertainment, you may find much of the dialogue incomprehensible as the accents combine with slang. If you ARE a fan of British entertainment, you may not be amused by the film's focus on 'gross' humor and weak attempts at edginess.

Enchorde 2012-05-04 04:18:08

Cute comedy

Recap: St Trinians is a school for girls, and it is in deep trouble. Afew weeks from foreclosure it also under attack from the minister ofeducation. And rightly so, on St Trinians anarchy reigns. But thestudents figure they would never survive at a normal school so theyorganize themselves to save the school. All they have to do is rig anational televised competition and break in to the National Museum.Comments: Even if the St Trinians are the self proclaimed defenders ofanarchy it is a rather sweet movie, with rather harmless but mostlyfunny jokes. I don't know if it was intended to be, but it actually waspretty cute.The story rather foolish, and Rupert Everett as the headmistress mightnot have been the best casting ever made, but a lot of the other youngactresses impressed on me. Talulah Riley wasn't hopefully a one hitwonder and Gemma Aterton has already made it as a Bond-girl. I thinkboth might have great careers ahead of them and will in a few yearstime look back at this as a somewhat silly but funny experience.That was what I felt about, a little silly, but mostly funny.6/10

Ben Larson 2012-04-25 23:01:48

Oh my god! You want us to steal Scarlett Johansson?

This film is a lot more interesting if you are very familiar with ColinFirth, as it references some of his roles (Pride and Prejudice, andGirl with a Pearl Earring). There are scenes in the film that are exactduplicates, and the dog being named Mr. Darcy refers to his role.Of course the headmistress (Rupert Everett) is a dead ringer for acertain Duchess.I enjoyed Russell Brand as Flash, and I just loved Holly and CloeMackie as Tara and Tania. They were adorable.It was a enjoyable light comedy. A bit more edge and it would have beengreat.

Ozzy2000 2012-04-25 04:11:31

A good remake of a classic comedy

I find it hilarious that some reviewers found "Run Fatboy Run" greatBritish humour but knock this movie. It shows how hung up they reallyare. This fun remake of the sixties version is most definitely tamecompared with today's realities in Private Girls schools and even mynieces found it hilarious.I think the dope smoking references are a bit much but as I said realtyis much worse. I think as the media sensationalizes the dangers toschool children they are in fact at the same time creating the wrongrole models for them to follow but ultimately its the parents whodecide how their children will behave. Just thank god it wasn't an Australian comedy as you would have beensnoring right through it.