The opening scenes introduce us and new girl Annabelle Fritton to St. Trinian's School for girls; it isn't like other schools
the pupils run the place. Having come from the prestigious Cheltenham Ladies' College Annabelle is initially not impressed with the anarchy she finds in St. Trinian's but grows to fit in; especially after she learns that her father wants to have the place shut down and sold off. The school already owes half a million pounds to the bank so it looks as if it will close
if the girls can't think up a way to get the money. They have an idea but if they are to have a chance they will have to get to the finals of an inter-school TV quiz
because it will be filmed in the National Gallery and the picture they plan to steal is in there! It doesn't help of course that a new government minister wants to improve the education system, starting with St. Trinian's!
I had heard some fairly negative things about this film but was determined to watch it with an open mind; I was soon chuckling and found plenty to laugh out during its hour and a half run time. It never took itself too seriously and the cast were a lot of fun to watch; Talulah Riley did a good job as protagonist Annabelle and even though she was a bit old to be playing a school girl Gemma Arterton was a lot of fun as head girl Kelly. There were plenty of well known British stars in the cast including Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Celia Imrie and Russell Brand amongst the cast as well as a number of unknowns. The story was of course very silly but then it wouldn't have been St. Trinian's if it hadn't been. The first half of the film where we are being introduced to the school and seeing the minister's attempts to show the press how bad it is was the funniest; when it got to the art robbery the jokes slowed down a bit and the producers felt it necessary to show that under their act they were not bad girls which is a pity as half the fun of St Trinian's is that they are meant to be bad! Overall I thought this was a lot better than expected and should provide a decent number of laughs.
I had heard some fairly negative things about this film but was determined to watch it with an open mind; I was soon chuckling and found plenty to laugh out during its hour and a half run time. It never took itself too seriously and the cast were a lot of fun to watch; Talulah Riley did a good job as protagonist Annabelle and even though she was a bit old to be playing a school girl Gemma Arterton was a lot of fun as head girl Kelly. There were plenty of well known British stars in the cast including Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Celia Imrie and Russell Brand amongst the cast as well as a number of unknowns. The story was of course very silly but then it wouldn't have been St. Trinian's if it hadn't been. The first half of the film where we are being introduced to the school and seeing the minister's attempts to show the press how bad it is was the funniest; when it got to the art robbery the jokes slowed down a bit and the producers felt it necessary to show that under their act they were not bad girls which is a pity as half the fun of St Trinian's is that they are meant to be bad! Overall I thought this was a lot better than expected and should provide a decent number of laughs.