St. Trinian's
NeoClassics Films | Release Date: August 28, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
39
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
6
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Sadly, the movie is a zoo. Read full review
60
Village VoiceElla Taylor
Can be enjoyed in all its endearing awfulness, as a loony "High School Musical" with posher accents and a lot more going on upstairs. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth 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. Read full review
50
VarietyDerek Elley
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. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterRay 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. Read full review
40
EmpireSam Toy
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. Read full review
40
NPRMark Jenkins
At heart, though, the movie is as tame as "The Belles of St. Trinian's," the 1954 farce that started it all. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
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. Read full review
20
Time OutStephen Garrett
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. Read full review
20
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
A stunningly witless revival of the infamous British film series about a girls’ boarding school. Read full review
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