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Bookmark this pageSt Trinian's (2007)
Director: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson
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.
Movie review
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
Time Out London
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- St Trinian Fan said...
- Posted on Feb 14 2008 19:31 Fantastic not to be missed. Rupert Everet at his very best!
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- David Kent said...
- Posted on Feb 13 2008 08:14 I went to see this film with my big sister. It was a very funny film! I loved it! Fantasrtic film. Jennie thought it was ok. I can't wait to get St Trinian's when it comes out on DVD.
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- abby wall said...
- Posted on Feb 12 2008 10:42 THIS FILM WAS TOTALLY AUSOME ! ME & Y MATES WENT TO WATCH IT & WE LOVED IT ! WE ALL AGREED IT SHOULD BE RATED 10/10 ! THANX FRO MAIN THIS AUSOME FILM PEOPLE ! ABBY <3 XXX
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Posted on Feb 12 2008 10:40
THIS FILM WAS SO TOTALLY AUSOM3 !
ME & MY MATES TOTALLY THOUGHT IT WAS TOOTALLY GREAT !
NOT ONLY WAS IT INTERESTING !
IT WAS ALSO ENJOYABLE !
I WOULD DEFFINATELY WATCH IT AGAIN !
ME & MY MATES RATED IT 10/10 - Report as inappropriate
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- Ellie said...
- Posted on Feb 11 2008 21:14 I thought the movie was really greta especially Head girl Kellyand Girls aloud song at the end was really catchy and I love it so muchI'm trying to download it
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- chantelle said...
- Posted on Feb 11 2008 13:07 iwant to go with myboyfriend to see it tonight butim not sure if he will like it:)
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- Lucy said...
- Posted on Feb 09 2008 12:33 I think whoever writes these reviews is a sad old person who has to take things literally. It really annoys me - can't they think like kids when its a kids film and think like adults in an adults film? There was nothing wrong with St trinians I thought it was great
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- Lesley said...
- Posted on Feb 08 2008 20:44 we had a family outing to this for my sons 9th birthday,me,my husband,and our other son aged 10and our daughter aged 12 all thoroughly enjoyed it.Great fun for all the family.
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- D-Hover said...
- Posted on Feb 08 2008 10:57 The best movie Ive seen in a while
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- amanda said...
- Posted on Feb 06 2008 18:38 I took my ten year old daughter to see it - she loved it. she has been asking for it on DVD eversince - excellent entertainment.
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- Heather said...
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Posted on Feb 06 2008 17:20
this film was amazing!
the review from time out is garbage!
not to be missed! - Report as inappropriate
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- Awd said...
- Posted on Feb 04 2008 19:42 I agree with most of the reviews - it was good antidote to stressful week and suitable for the family. Not meant to be serious - and I liked the references to other films, I thought that was part of the fun!
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- i.m.trouble said...
- Posted on Feb 03 2008 15:04 a good old fashioned entertainment to spice up the day me and my mum laughed alot.
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- JanieBear said...
- Posted on Feb 03 2008 12:55 Went to see this film and embarrassed myself by chortelling out loud throughout. Great fun, True to the anarchic spirit of the original, but bang up to date. Russel Brand and Rupert Everett were great in the character parts. If you are female, you must go.
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- bubblegum said...
- Posted on Feb 03 2008 08:49 i haven't seen it yet but i'm going to see it today and i've already seen the trailer and that's good so if that is good then so help me the film will be good as well !!!!!
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Cast & crew
Director: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson
Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Jodie Whittaker, Lena Headey, Russell Brand, Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie, Caterina Murino, Gemma Arterton, Tamsin Egerton, Amara Karan, Antonia Bernath, Juno Temple, Lucy Punch, Anna Chancellor, Talulah Riley full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 101 mins
UK Release: Dec 21 2007
US Release: Oct 9 2009
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