St Trinian's (2007)
Directed by Oliver Parker & Barnaby Thompson
**3/4
When I was young, a family friend would babysit me from time to time, and one of our favorite movies to watch was a bizarre, hilarious movie called The Belles of St Trinian's. That nostalgia led us to see this modern "reimagining" — well, that, plus the chance to see Rupert Everett play a posh Englishman and his school-marm sister. Or was it to see Stephen Fry as a game show host? Or Colin Firth as the obviously flappable Minister of Education, who sets out to make an example of the lax standards and riotious behavior at St Trinian's. Of course, as we can see coming, the joke's on him. In the meanwhile, a similarly bizarre tale develops of a pack of wicked school girls, their devious ways, and the miraculous way the school was saved from bankruptcy.
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