Spoiled by careless storyline…must try harder!

Last weekend, I decided to go with my friend to watch St Trinian’s. We mainly chose this because it was the only film showing at a reasonable time after we had eaten out.

I have never walked out in the middle of a film before in a cinema, but believe me I would have followed the couple that bravely did, had I not been with my friend. St Trinian’s has a wonderful cast but this, combined with a slow and predictable storyline, does not make it into a good film. This movie even makes Colin Firth seem unattractive, which I did not realise was possible until now!

The film felt like it had the wrong certificate and could have probably pulled itself off as an amusing “family film” had it toned down a bit to achieve a PG rating.

From what I could remember of the parts were I was not dozing off, the story line is based around saving the school, St Trinian’s from going bankrupt. To do this the girls decide to steal ‘The girl with the Pearl earring’ painting from the National gallery. Obviously they manage to do all this by crawling through the sewers of London on a busy day in central, without causing a terrorist alert.

I couldn’t possibly tell you the outcome from fear of spoiling the ending, however it does finish with a school party where Girls Aloud perform. Unfortunately for them, this is the part where everyone traditionally grabs their coats and pours out the cinema as soon as so much as the first hint of a credit shows on screen, so I am not sure it was worth them being in the movie at all, let alone the producer’s re-making of this classic.

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