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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisSadly, the movie is a zoo.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceCan be enjoyed in all its endearing awfulness, as a loony "High School Musical" with posher accents and a lot more going on upstairs.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanAnyone 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.
- 50VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleyMildly amusing result, with plenty of slack in its 100 minutes, should work OK with its target audience of female Brit tweenies, who won't notice the pic's shoddy technical package, sloppy direction and the way the original films' antiestablishment tone has morphed into a celebration of dumbed-down "yoof" culture.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettRemaking eccentric English comedies is seldom a good idea, especially the ones from Ealing Studios with all those wonderful character actors. But against all odds, the new version of St. Trinian's almost pulls it off.
- 40EmpireEmpireThe target audience - pre-teen girls - aren’t going to notice the many shortfalls behind the camera. What they’ll enjoy, regardless of quality, is some naughtiness true to the spirit of the series, Russell Brand and Girls Aloud. For the rest of us it’s tougher going with mostly Everett and Firth to see us through.
- 40NPRMark JenkinsNPRMark JenkinsAt heart, though, the movie is as tame as "The Belles of St. Trinian's," the 1954 farce that started it all.
- 38New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickBad in ways that are almost endearing, St. Trinian's does offer the spectacle of Rupert Everett mincing around in drag as a headmistress bedeviled by Colin Firth, as an education minister and former lover who wants to shut down her out-of-control school.
- 20Time OutStephen GarrettTime OutStephen GarrettDespite a plucky soundtrack and frantic editing, the movie shows otherwise wan interest in the gaggle of faux-transgressive bad girls who bare their dulled claws at England’s establishment ethos, as though that notion alone were somehow fresh and cheeky.
- 20The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisA stunningly witless revival of the infamous British film series about a girls’ boarding school.