Very well executed

That was an excellent one.

best movie i've ever seen.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I struggled watching it at first, I missed a whole lot of what was actually said, and I refuse to use subtitles on the virgin flight. I felt that the characters made too little impression on me, they're not likable, and the whole thing was kinda over the top simply for the sake of being over the top. Then, a bit before nearing the halfway mark came that song that beautifully fitted in with the theme and tied everything up with a nice bow.Uh-oh, we're in trouble Something's come along and it's burst our bubbleAnd it is just so damn cute that it made me see the whole flick in a positive new light! There is an absolute wealth of detail. The film oozes surprises popping up in the backgrounds. There is such an absolute lot going on here, the flick gets an A+ for effort, heart and spirit. The pupils are a deranged lot. Everybody is busy as beavers being deeply anti-social, except those at the wrong end of the stick.After the song warmed my heart, I was more in tune with the movie. These misfits have to be cheered for! And the subtitles were, of course, finally used, and there aren't complaints from me anymore. Movie has a cult following, and I can see why.A better title : GIRLS TOGETHER. Or ST. TRINIAN'S GIRLS TOGETHER. I just realized how much it would be misunderstood. But meant by me in the sense of 'standing together overcoming all opposition'... Movie has a cartoonish* style with a deluge of over the top characters. Including Rupert Everett in a dual role, which is kinda ludicrous to the extreme, a whole troop of little savage girls, some of them horrid little white-faced Goths (or Satanists?) :) and bigger girls wielding hockey sticks like deadly weapons. Also a little leg-humping dog. *Inspired by the works of Robert SearleBy the way, just learned scant minutes ago re ST. TRINIAN'S BATTLE OF THE SEXES, and it rather sounds like a remake of ALL I WANNA DO.

Annabelle Fritton (Talulah Riley) is dumped by her father to her aunt Camilla Fritton (Rupert Everett), headmistress of the wild and crazy St. Trinian's School for Young Ladies. Kelly Jones (Gemma Arterton) is the streetwise Head Girl. Flash Harry (Russell Brand) is the black market connection for the girls. Education Minister Geoffrey Thwaites (Colin Firth) aims to clean up the school system and he's starting with St. Trinian. His daughter Verity (Lucy Punch) is the bully Head Girl of a rival school and he is Camilla Fritton's ex. Miss Dickinson (Lena Headey) is the new English teacher.It's a lot beautiful and sometimes scantily clad school girls in wild and crazy antics. I'm not sure why Rupert Everett is cross dressing here but it's not funny. Russell Brand is enjoying himself with the wild character. If there is a cruder and sillier way to tell a joke, this movie will find it. It's also a lot of screaming girls. I think most people will be a little annoyed by it all after awhile but girls may find female empowerment in these girls taking matters into their own hands. There's even a multi-makeover montage.

At the time of its release this was a sort of largely advertised British film, and I may have seen it mentioned on Film 2007 with Jonathan Ross, and it is based on a bunch of original films in a series, I had to see what the fuss was. Basically St. Trinian's is the all girls boarding school in London, England that proudly boasts itself as the rock bottom and unacceptable face of British education, allowing bad behaviour, bad teaching and uncontrollable stuff for the troublesome girls who attend, but not everyone knows this information. The latest girl to join the school is Annabelle Fritton (Talulah Riley), daughter of Carnaby Fritton (National Movie Award nominated Rupert Everett), who is the brother of the dotty school headmistress Camilla Fritton (also Everett), she is at first like a fish out of water, but after a while she does fit in. The school is facing bankruptcy and closure unless things improve, and personally having a look around seeing that things improve is the new Minister of Education, Geoffrey Thwaites (National Movie Award nominated Colin Firth), who didn't realise Miss Fritton was the headmistress, she is his old flame. The students are planning a way to try and get the money they need to keep the school open, with the help of con artists and master robbery guy Flash (Russell Brand), they are planning to steal the painting made famous by Scarlett Johansson, the Girl with a Pearl Earring. They plan to do this on the night when St. Trinian's is taking part in a television school quiz, like University Challenge, hosted by Stephen Fry, playing against Cheltenham Ladies' College, they are doing it in the building the painting is hanging, and in the end they do save the day selling it off. Also starring Quantum of Solace's National Movie Award nominated Gemma Arterton as Kelly, Venus's Jodie Whittaker as Beverly, Atonement's Juno Temple as Celia, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps' Kathryn Drysdale as Taylor, Antonia Bernath as Chloe, Amara Karan as Peaches, Keeping Mum's Tamsin Egerton as Chelsea, Doctor Who's Lily Cole as Polly, singer Paloma Faith as Andrea, Holly Mackie as Tara, Cloe Mackie as Tania, Celia Imrie as Matron, Doctor Who's Fenella Woolgar as Miss Cleaver, 300's Lena Headey as Miss Dickinson, Doctor Who's Toby Jones as Bursar, Casino Royale's Caterina Murino as Miss Maupassant, Dinner for Schmucks' Lucy Punch as Verity Thwaites, Four Weddings and a Funeral's Anna Chancellor as Miss Bagstock, Lenny in Pieces' Steve Furst as Bank Manager, Mischa Barton as JJ French, The Haunted Mansion's Nathaniel Parker as Chairman of the National Gallery and Girls Aloud (Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh). The all British of young stars and the older recognisable ones all do well, the story is reasonably simple, and most of the slapstick, cross dressing and dialogue gags do make you chuckle a fair amount, so overall this a surprisingly good return from a formerly successful series of films, a fun family comedy. It was nominated the National Movie Award for Best Comedy. Worth watching!

This film is a lot more interesting if you are very familiar with Colin Firth, as it references some of his roles (Pride and Prejudice, and Girl with a Pearl Earring). There are scenes in the film that are exact duplicates, and the dog being named Mr. Darcy refers to his role.Of course the headmistress (Rupert Everett) is a dead ringer for a certain Duchess.I enjoyed Russell Brand as Flash, and I just loved Holly and Cloe Mackie as Tara and Tania. They were adorable.It was a enjoyable light comedy. A bit more edge and it would have been great.