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St. Trinian's (2007)

Directed by Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson this reboot stars Gemma Arterton, Talulah Riley, Rupert Everett and Colin Firth. Girls at the worst behaved boarding school in England look to raise money to save their school.

While the plot of this film features a number of elements borrowed from the first film in the series a number of plot holes seem to have crept in and mean you should not think too hard about this one. Largely the story is what you would expect but the humour is fairly weak, nearly always going with the obvious. The cast features a number of big names but most of them are relegated to bit parts and while the direction is slick at times it does not have a huge amount to work with.

2/5