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St Trinian's (2007)

Director: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson

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Synopsis

St Trinian's is the school for young ladies and it is once again facing dire financial crisis with the bank threatening closure. Headmistress Camilla Fritton is also in the firing line from the Education Minister as she espouses an unorthodox doctrine of self-empowerment and free expression. In order to save the school, the St Trinian's girls decide to put their differences aside and hatch a plan to come up with cash. The leaders of the gang, Kelly (Gemma Arterton) and Annabelle (Talulah Riley) decide that a heist is the only way forward, and so decide to steal Vermeer’s ‘Girl with the Pearl Earring’ painting from the National Gallery.

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From Time Out London

This ultra-glossy, twenty-first-century update of the original series of films about the anarchic student body of the titular ‘ladies school’ comes bounding off the screen like a feature-length ad for Top Shop. Out go any radical notions of female social upheaval and in come clumsy drug jokes, broad stereotypes and reams-upon-reams of thudding pop music. The lead performances from the young cast are generally weak (apart from an excellent Jodie Whittaker) and the script is a tiresome mulch of self-conscious cultural references. Not even a camp-as-Christmas turn from Rupert Everett as effete headmistress Camilla Fritton is enough to salvage this mess, which drifts aimlessly towards a tawdry heist finale that will only make sense to those with the ability to bump their own brain-patterns to the level of sub-moronic torpor. The one-dimensional, any-excuse-for-a-musical-montage direction does, admittedly, inject some much-needed zip into the proceedings, but in terms of a cultural legacy, this is one to file next to ‘Spiceworld: The Movie’.

Author: David Jenkins 2007-12-21 11:45:33

Time Out London

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fats said...

Posted on Dec 21 2007 22:28 great fun. people shouldn't take it too serious. It's not too rude and it's up to date. my girls, 9 & 11 loved it, as the rest of the cinema. Fast and funny, but NOT serious.

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James said...

Posted on Dec 21 2007 22:19 A HUGE disappointment!! Russel Brand was good but the rest was just really unfunny!! The girls are really irritating and I lost the plot (If there was any) ten minutes in. I took my 16 year-old daughter and a friend and they wanted to leave a quarter way through. So we left then watched The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D which they thought was a MILLION times better than St Trinians!!
Actually, I agree with them. If you don't won't to be disappointed, go and see The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D.

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Beth said...

Posted on Dec 21 2007 21:32 i loved this film.
russell brand was fit, as ever although his role wasn't great, i loved the plot and the hilarious rupert everett lol!
don't down it it rocks!
xxx

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07yht07 said...

Posted on Dec 21 2007 21:03 who out of girls aloud is in dis film! dis filmm looks really great and all my friends say its gd but u lot have put me off wotchin it coz i dont wanna waste money on a really rubbish film

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Ken Edwards said...

Posted on Dec 21 2007 19:32 A real disappointment. I agree totally with your review. Just to add that the sexual innuendos and drug taking 'jokes' are out of place in a film about young girls. As when Everett and Firth got into bed together, I wanted to throw up!!!! What made the original film funny was the cast. This one is not in the same street - or planet!

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lynz said...

Posted on Dec 21 2007 19:11 goin 2 c dis film tomoz
it looks pretty good nd has sum decent rating ...
hope its a gd film unlike fred claus
xx

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x.xgawjeshwunx.x said...

Posted on Dec 21 2007 11:18 I havent seen this yet, but it looks relii good! xx all ma friends have seen it ...they said its a good luahg and a great comedy ... any1 that says they hate this film ish soo uncool!! i ratee diss big timee! xx

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danielle said...

Posted on Dec 21 2007 10:36 i havent do it yet but i think i looks ok am pals said it was crap so i dont know if i want to go and see it??

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Sarah.Sophie said...

Posted on Dec 21 2007 09:08 We thought this film was great! It really relates to our kind of humour and the teeage life. It shows us what we are really like when we can't see it for ourselfs. We never stopped looking at the screen and nearly wet ourselves laughing in the middle of runcorn Cineworld! xx

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Shaz said...

Posted on Dec 20 2007 20:47 This is the possibly the worst film I have ever seen. No gags. No plot. Just very lame attempts at humour. There must be better talent out there somewhere.

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Tali said...

Posted on Dec 19 2007 16:23 I thought this film would disappoint me and was wary of seeing a film that i felt would ruin Ealing's reputation. However, I need not have worried. St Trinnian's is hilarious and inventive, not what one would expect from a teenage chick flick. For what it is, the film brings wit and flair and will surprise all hostile viewers expectations.

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Lola said...

Posted on Dec 19 2007 16:18 This is a perfect film to see with the family. Teenage girls cannot miss this one, they will be able to relate to the comically relative issues which the St Trinian's girls face. The cast alone should entice anyone; with beauties such as Mischa Barton and Lily Cole to classic British comedy from Russell Brand and Steven Fry. This film can accommodate any viewer and is a xmas must see!!

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