St. Trinian's

Year: 2009

Genres: Comedy

Directed by: Oliver Parker

Written by: Nick Moorcroft

Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Russell Br, Talulah Riley, Gemma Arterton, Mischa Barton, Stephen Fry

Company: NeoClassics Films | Runtime: 97 minutes | St. Trinian's on IMDB

St Trinians, 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 Camillas 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)

St. Trinian's trailer

Ray Bennett

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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.

Wesley Morris

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Sadly, the movie is a zoo.

Ella Taylor

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

Derek Elley

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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.

Elizabeth Weitzman

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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.

Lou Lumenick

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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.

Stephen Garrett

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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 Englands establishment ethos, as though that notion alone were somehow fresh and cheeky.

Mark Jenkins

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

Jeannette Catsoulis

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

Sam Toy

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The target audience - pre-teen girls - arent going to notice the many shortfalls behind the camera. What theyll enjoy, regardless of quality, is some naughtiness true to the spirit of the series, Russell Brand and Girls Aloud. For the rest of us its tougher going with mostly Everett and Firth to see us through.