St. Trinian's (2009)

What a stupid movie. lousy attempt of the quirkiness, straightforward, dark humor, and profoundness that 2000's The Royal Tenenbaums or A Series of Unfortunate Events movie or Mean Girls achieved. It could have have been as profound as 1990s' The Craft even if it decides to be a tweenie version of that dark humor. The intro scene of the movie looks like the Burn Book in Mean Girls and so are the cliques...welp i guess a lot of movies with cliques started since Mean Girls...welp hello to those who conceptualized this film...I hope you learned your lesson, and the lessons imposed in the last few years about society. And to not have a myopic view as related to the educational system's values; even if it is satire, it still has to be more accurate with irony for it to be funny. From a commenter 10 years after that aughts film.And oh yeah...advancing out of sexual favors to men, drugs, sexism, violence, cheating aren't cute just because girls in skimpy uniform are doihg them.

When it was announced that there was to be a modern reboot of St. Trinian's, it was met with Luke warm murmurings to say the least. Yet when it comes down to it, the old films from the 50s and 60s were hardly comedy gold anyway. Safe family fare and sometimes fun into the bargain, and with strong casts, they have never been seen as essential British comedies and untouchable by the modern era's obsession with remakes and reimaging.St. Trinian's 2007 style is not an improvement on the oldies, but neither is it the stinker some critics in 2007 wanted us to believe. It has enough about it to be its own animal, it's funny, sexy and never dull. This also benefits from strong comic casting, where the likes of Rupert Everett (having the time of his life in drag), Colin Firth and Russell Brand are pitched into the femme madness headed by Gemma Arterton and Tallulah Riley. The writers err on the side of caution as far as risqué material goes, but there's some very strong gags played out and the grouping of the girls into the various cliques (Emos, Chavs etc) is a nifty bit of writing that is mined to good effect.It was good enough and successful enough to warrant a sequel 2 years later… 6.5/10

this movie is the stupidest thing that I ever. Not only is the plot unbelievable, the characters are cliché with absolutely no character development. the main character is annoying and the change form nerd to cool kid is so sudden that you wonder did you miss some thing. The one thing that keep me going is the small hope that some how she enter and become the moral compass of the house, that doesn't happen she is soon daft into the realm of nonsense completely losing me. some may say that this movie is good for a few giggles, but truly I couldn't even crack a smile. I feel sick watching the so called feminism, watching girls, yes GIRLS perform what the audience can only imagine as sexual favor for men. I say girls because when in the movie the often refer to the school as college. I don't know what age people go to college in great Britain but six year old and what I can only surmise is 16-17 yr. old aren't in college, so an adult Russell Brand hitting on the "heads girl" is totally inappropriate. what is worst is that is not the only thing wrong with this movie. from the girls selling bootleg vodka that is killing people to the teachers only reason for being there is to prove that the decrepit build is indeed a school. coupled with fact that the head mistress is a man. and more moments like that. this movie is stupid.

Funny and very silly.But I wouldn't let young kids or young teens watch it.It might give the wrong idea.Plus there was some disturbing scenes that were made out to be funny.Abuse made out to be cool.I didn't care for the makeover with garters showing.This is not a message I'd want kids to take on.I especially liked the relationship between the head mistress and Colin Firth. Ha ha! Good for a laugh.Pure silly mindless entertainment.