Media Exam

Reviews

The Times:

This is a classic slice of warmed-over, outdated Ealing comedy rubbish.

View London.co.uk

In short, St Trinians is surprisingly good fun and certainly not the disaster it could have been (think Spice World). Worth seeing.

Time Out London

The lead performances from the young cast are generally weak 

and the script is a tiresome mulch of self-conscious cultural references. Not even a camp-as-Christmas turn from Rupert Everett as effete headmistress Camilla Fritton is enough to salvage this mess, which drifts aimlessly towards a tawdry heist finale that will only make sense to those with the ability to bump their own brain-patterns to the level of sub-moronic torpor. 

BBC

In modern Britain where the ASBO culture rules OK, the schoolgirls of St Trinian's are about as shocking and edgy as a ciggie behind the bike sheds - oh, except that smoking onscreen is generally frowned upon these days ... The truth is, the original Belles Of St Trinian's (1954) would eat these newbies for breakfast. As the school's headmistress, only Rupert Everett shows true bulldog spirit, but it would be a stretch to see him back for a second term.

The Guardian

This is a monumentally naff film, shaming and depressing in a way that British feature-film comedies have persisted in being, intermittently, all our lives. Cheesy, dated, humourless and crass, it's a nightmare of stunt-casting, and was apparently composed by a committee of suits, PR execs and press agents. Despite its continuous stream of up-to-the-minute pop culture references, it has been updated only to about 1978, a spiritual cousin to the late-period Carry Ons.