Rotten
The result is too competent to be a travesty and too ordinary to be interesting.
Jason Anderson, Toronto Star
St Trinian's
Taking higher education to a new low.
2007 · 1h 41m · PG-13
Comedy, Family
Directed by
Barnaby Thompson
,
Oliver Parker
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St Trinian's
Overview
When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless painting and use the profits to pull St. Trinian's out of the red.
Director and cast
- Barnaby Thompson Director
- Oliver Parker Director
- Talulah Riley as Annabelle Fritton
- Rupert Everett as Camilla Fritton / Carnaby Fritton
- Gemma Arterton as Kelly Jones
- Colin Firth as Geoffrey Thwaites
- Lena Headey as Miss Dickinson
- Jodie Whittaker as Beverly
- Russell Brand as Flash Harry
- Anna Chancellor as Miss Bagstock
- Juno Temple as Celia
- Tamsin Egerton as Chelsea Parker
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
31%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Firth looks like he's changing his mind about being in this movie WHILE the cameras are running.
Michael Phillips, At the Movies
Rotten
Every scene is so frantic and desperate to make you laugh, to be clever, to be naughty and none of it worked.
A.O. Scott, At the Movies
Fresh
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.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Rotten
A stunningly witless revival of the infamous British film series about a girls' boarding school.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
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