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 enlarge | Directors: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson
Actors: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Jodie Whittaker, Russell Brand, Tallulah Riley
Studio: Entertainment in Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 74
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Running Time: 97 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5017239195570
ASIN: B0012RN02K
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: April 14, 2008
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 St. Trinian's Doesn't Make the Grade May 21, 2008
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
The perennial problem facing cinematic depictions of schools is that they can never be made to appear wholly realistic. Adolescents, as every adult knows, can be the most amoral, cruel, violent, foul-mouthed and sexually deviant creatures of all.
This latest incarnation of St. Trinian's enjoys a comparatively angelic student body: "a Hogwarts for pikeys" quips new-girl Talulah Riley; nor do the teachers have it so bad, save for the odd shower of paintballs. Some of the gags have been updated, with a peculiar emphasis on surveillance: web cameras, hidden shower cameras, dog-collar cameras and cameras disguised as hockey sticks all combine to keep the crafty girls updated. This aside, the screenplay can offer little else more ingenious than a bog-standard "Dennis the Menace" episode. It could only be expected that Ronald Searle's famous cartoons would have aged significantly by now, relying as they did upon the audience's familiarity with a conservative educational ethos dominated by ritual, tradition and dictatorial tutors. Even today's privately educated children will only recognise this environment from the films that attempt to satirize it. Yet this provides no excuse for excising the spirit of Searle's gleeful black humour. The 2007 imagining is tame, insipid and bland, dragged along by a clutch of forgettable characters who appear, ironically, to have been parachuted in from a dime-a-dozen American high school comedy.
Contributing in no small measure to the film's difficulties is the absence of the school itself from the proceedings. No sooner have we undergone the obligatory meet-the-cliques initiation scene (which has not been improved upon since "Clueless") than St. Trinian's is facing both financial ruin and the reformism of Colin Firth's preening education minister. A mixed bag of cameos from Stephen Fry, Russell Brand and an execrable Mischa Barton can do little to save the horrendously formulaic David and Goliath storyline that follows. A movie that ought to be intimately about a school goes out of its way to escape it.
Far from being subversive, risque or consistently funny, "St. Trinian's" is best received as broadly conventional children's tosh, half Dahl and half Anglicized Disney. There are bright points: Talulah Riley shines throughout and is probably destined for bigger roles, while Brand's one-liners elicit the odd smile. Rupert Everett, too, cross-dressing as headmistress Camilla Fritton, seems to enjoy every moment - it's only a shame the audience aren't in on the joke.
 Unbelievably bad May 18, 2008
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is possibly one of the worst films I have had the misfortune to watch.I agree with another reviewer who was glad he rented it and did not buy it.
A major disappointment. May 17, 2008
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm a big fan of the first St. Trinian's movie in which the great Alistair Sim played both headmistress Miss Fritton and her flakey brother. First saw it as a kid in the 50s and it still makes me laugh. So I rather looked forward to this updated version as I figured Rupert Everett would be a gas as Miss Fritton and Russell Brand seemed inspired casting as Flash Harry. Oh dear, where did it all go wrong ? Everett looks rather like Esther Rantzen but is a good deal less funny. As for Brand the less said the better. The storyline is stale and derivative (school quizzes and stealing a famous painting - does it sound familiar to you?) This movie is an absolute gas. Unfortunately none of it is laughing gas.
Coarse, nasty little piece of nonsense May 17, 2008
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
Quite possibly in the bottom ten of films I have ever seen. I was dragged along by my 12 year old daughter and was appalled at the unsubtle coarseness of the film. The only redeeming factor was Rupert Everett - the rest, particularly Russell Brand were appalling. Having seen the original 50's St Ts' I felt cheated and exploited by this trashy nonsense - my undiscerning 12 year old "loved" it, which is all I suppose the producers wanted to achieve.
Staggeringly bad May 17, 2008
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Its always hard not to compare with originals, but this is in the nature remakes. Both the old and the new have to contend with thin scripts and weak storylines. However, whilst the original more than compensates through pathos, brillant characterization, and a tranch of outstanding performances, this remake offers little of this. Russell Brand's David Brent impersonation was particulary painful and Colin Firth looked like he didn't want to be there. It was rather like he had somehow wandered onto the set and couldn't find the exit. Rupert Everett's performance was this films only redeeming feature. Very disapointing, but perhaps not unexpected.
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