St. Trinian's (2009)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:13
Rotten:25
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Both naughtier and campier than Ronald Searle's original post war series, this St. Trinian's leans on high jinks instead of performances or witty dialogue.
Theatrical Release:Oct 9, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: It's no more Mr. Nice Guy for Colin Firth in this anarchic British comedy. The former Mr. Darcy stars as an uptight education minister who wants to shut down the fun at St. Trinian's all-girls... [More]
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Lena Headey, Jodie Whittaker
Director: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson
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Reviews for St. Trinian's
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The result is too competent to be a travesty and too ordinary to be interesting. Full Review |
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Firth looks like he’s changing his mind about being in this movie WHILE the cameras are running. Full Review |
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Every scene is so frantic and desperate to make you laugh, to be clever, to be naughty and none of it worked. Full Review |
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St. Trinian’s is a painless onslaught of dumb gags, gratuitous cheesecake, random movie allusions, and general nonsense, but the classy cast (which includes Gemma Arterton, Toby Jones, and Stephen Fry) helps earn it a passing grade. Full Review |
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4/10 |
I suspect this boorish, crude, often vulgar British comedy lost a great deal of its jolly credence whilst crossing the Atlantic. Full Review |
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2/4 |
A tame, glittery spoof without a brain in its head or a character worth caring about. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
A stunningly witless revival of the infamous British film series about a girls’ boarding school. Full Review |
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3/5 |
St. Trinian’s is a hoot, but it’s thrown-together, haphazard feel will only grate on the sensibilities of cineastes or aesthetic and moral prudes bent on decrying “yoof” culture -- although it’s only moderately rude by contemporary standards. Full Review |
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Sadly, the level of deviance hovers around iCarly levels, as does the sophistication of the humor. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
Bad in ways that are almost endearing... Full Review |
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3/5 |
Quirky British boarding-school comedy has iffy messages. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
It’s an impressive bit of slumming by some name actors revisiting a childhood favorite -- a bit as if Hollywood had somehow convinced William Hurt to help restart Lost in Space, or Robert De Niro to do a Bullwinkle movie. Oh, wait. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Sadly, the movie is a zoo. Full Review |
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1/5 |
indifferent to storytelling, craft and, dare I mention, fresh ideas Full Review |
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1/5 |
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... Full Review |
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With the right attitude this cheerfully calculated effort to update the old girl for a tween market can be enjoyed in all its endearing awfulness, as a loony High School Musical with posher accents and a lot more going on upstairs. Full Review |
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Rowdy 12-year-old British girls might get some modicum of narcissistic pleasure from "St. Trinian's" (loosely based on Ronald Searle's WWII era cartoons), but no one else will. Full Review |
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St.Trinian’s represents a travesty of the British comic tradition. Full Review |
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...the relentless emphasis on off-the-wall shenanigans proves instrumental in cultivating an unexpected (yet palpable) atmosphere of oppressiveness. Full Review |
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