United Kingdom · 2007
Rated PG-13 · 1h 41m
Director Barnaby Thompson, Oliver Parker
Starring Talulah Riley, Rupert Everett, Gemma Arterton, Colin Firth
Genre Comedy, Family, Science Fiction
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When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless painting and use the profits to pull St. Trinian's out of the red.
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.
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.
New York Daily News by 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.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
A stunningly witless revival of the infamous British film series about a girls’ boarding school.
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.
At heart, though, the movie is as tame as "The Belles of St. Trinian's," the 1954 farce that started it all.
The Hollywood Reporter by 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.
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.
Sadly, the movie is a zoo.
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A juvenile delinquent is sentenced to competitive gymnastics in order to avoid jail time.
Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of Mowgli, the orphaned jungle boy raised by wild animals who becomes king of the jungle.
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