Customer Reviews
A major disappointment. - By: Guy Mannering, 17 May 2008 
I'm a big fan of the first St. Trinian's movie in which the great Alistair Sim played both headmistress Miss Fritton & her flakey brother. First saw it as a kid in the 50s & 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 & Russell Brand seemed inspired casting as Flash Harry. Oh dear, where did it alll 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 & derivative (school quizzes & 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 - By: hijo3, 17 May 2008 Quite possibly in the bottom ten of films I have ever seen. I was dragged along by my 12 year old daughter & was appallled at the unsubtle coarseness of the film. The only redeeming factor was Rupert Everett - the rest, particularly Russell Brand were appallling. Having seen the original 50's St Ts' I felt cheated & exploited by this trashy nonsense - my undiscerning 12 year old "loved" it, which is alll I suppose the producers wanted to achieve.
Staggeringly bad - By: Phil, 17 May 2008 Its always hard not to compare with originals, but this is in the nature remakes. Both the old & the new have to contend with thin scripts & weak storylines. However, whilst the original more than compensates through pathos, brillant characterization, & a tranch of outstanding performances, this remake offers little of this. Russell Brand's David Brent impersonation was particulary painful & Colin Firth looked like he didn't want to be there. It was rather like he had somehow wandered onto the set & couldn't find the exit. Rupert Everett's performance was this films only redeeming feature. Very disapointing, but perhaps not unexpected.
Lame - By: Thomas J. Wynn, 15 May 2008 
This was not viewed on the big screen first. I watched it on DVD in the safety of my own loungeroom without the spotty teens that may have lingered into the theatre to view this....
Sadly, the extras features were more entertaining than the movie.
The movie was lame!
Lame with cheese on top.
Extra cheesey.
My gut feeling was that the music, which made the originals classics, was ignored in this version...no one had a little musical theme etc to listen to like the old ones...
You Brits can do better than this...Simon Peg would have given it some life...or someone similar...
St Trins meets Hot Fuzz, now that would be fun.
Tom in Oz.
St Trinians - By: J. McCormack, 13 May 2008 
Well, it was okay I suppose, it did make me laugh a couple of times, particularly with the wee dog callled Mr Darcy & reference is made to Colin Firth in Girl with a Pearl Earring. However, I did feel slightly uncomfortable with some of the innuendo, given that we are expected to believe that we are dealing with schoolgirls, it just didn't quite sit right (and this from someone who likes Jimmy Carr so not easily offended). Had it been a totallly adult cast it would have been fine but I couldn't quite reconcile it with a child orientated cast. Otherwise, glad I rented & didn't pay at the pictures, would have been a bit annoyed then!
