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.
A stunningly witless revival of the infamous British film series about a girls' boarding school.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
9 Oct 2009
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,
9 Oct 2009
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,
19 Oct 2009
rotten:
Firth looks like he's changing his mind about being in this movie WHILE the cameras are running.
– Michael Phillips,
At the Movies,
19 Oct 2009
rotten:
The result is too competent to be a travesty and too ordinary to be interesting.