Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Talulah RileyAnnabelle Fritton
- Rupert EverettCamilla Fritton / Carnaby Fritton
- Gemma ArtertonKelly Jones
- Colin FirthGeoffrey Thwaites
- Lena HeadeyMiss Dickinson
- Jodie WhittakerBeverly
- Russell BrandFlash Harry
- Anna ChancellorMiss Bagstock
- Juno TempleCelia
- Tamsin EgertonChelsea Parker
- 63
Boston Globe
Sadly, the movie is a zoo. - 60
Village Voice
Can be enjoyed in all its endearing awfulness, as a loony "High School Musical" with posher accents and a lot more going on upstairs. - 60
New York Daily News
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. - 50
Variety
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. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 40
Empire
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. - 40
NPR
At heart, though, the movie is as tame as "The Belles of St. Trinian's," the 1954 farce that started it all. - 38
New York Post
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.