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St. Trinian's

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St. Trinian's reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy

Written by: Piers Ashworth
Nick Moorcroft

Directed by: Barnaby Thompson
Oliver Parker

Release Date:
Theatrical: August 28, 2009
DVD: January 26, 2010

Running Time: 97 minutes, Color

Origin: UK

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for thematic elements, drug and alcohol content, sexual material and language

Starring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Russell Brand, Talulah Riley, Gemma Arterton, Mischa Barton, and Stephen Fry

St Trinian’s, the infamous school for ‘young ladies’ is once again facing dire financial crisis! The bank are threatening headmistress Camilla Fritton with closure. Her unorthodox doctrine of free expression and self empowerment is also under threat from new Education Minister Geoffrey Thwaits, an old flame of Camilla’s who is determined to bring discipline and order to the anarchic school. In true St Trinian style the girls are in a league of their own; smart, fearless and determined to defend the school they love to the end. They need to unite the warring girl gang cliques and come up with the cash fast to save the school. (NeoClassics Fims)

What The Critics Said

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63

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Sadly, the movie is a zoo.

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60

Village Voice Ella Taylor

Can be enjoyed in all its endearing awfulness, as a loony "High School Musical" with posher accents and a lot more going on upstairs.

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60

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Anyone with a fondness for the midcentury cartoons and films that inspired this scrappy comedy will appreciate the latest trip to the titular British boarding school.

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50

Variety Derek Elley

Mildly amusing result, with plenty of slack in its 100 minutes, should work OK with its target audience of female Brit tweenies, who won't notice the pic's shoddy technical package, sloppy direction and the way the original films' antiestablishment tone has morphed into a celebration of dumbed-down "yoof" culture.

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50

The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett

Remaking eccentric English comedies is seldom a good idea, especially the ones from Ealing Studios with all those wonderful character actors. But against all odds, the new version of St. Trinian's almost pulls it off.

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40

NPR Mark Jenkins

At heart, though, the movie is as tame as "The Belles of St. Trinian's," the 1954 farce that started it all.

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40

Empire Sam Toy

The target audience - pre-teen girls - aren’t going to notice the many shortfalls behind the camera. What they’ll enjoy, regardless of quality, is some naughtiness true to the spirit of the series, Russell Brand and Girls Aloud. For the rest of us it’s tougher going with mostly Everett and Firth to see us through.

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38

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Bad in ways that are almost endearing, St. Trinian's does offer the spectacle of Rupert Everett mincing around in drag as a headmistress bedeviled by Colin Firth, as an education minister and former lover who wants to shut down her out-of-control school.

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20

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

A stunningly witless revival of the infamous British film series about a girls’ boarding school.

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20

Time Out New York Stephen Garrett

Despite a plucky soundtrack and frantic editing, the movie shows otherwise wan interest in the gaggle of faux-transgressive bad girls who bare their dulled claws at England’s establishment ethos, as though that notion alone were somehow fresh and cheeky.

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