St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (PG)
Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson (106 mins), starring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, David Tennant
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Your support makes all the difference.A cavalcade of schoolgirls filled out the press screening of this movie, and very welcome to it they were.
It's back to business at St Trinian's – less a school, more a fancy-dress carnival – where the headmistress, Miss Fritton, is leader of the revels and, in Rupert Everett's performance, the sole source of any laughs. (I counted my own: two.) The plot concerns a precious ring, a villainous chauvinist played by David Tennant and a cheeky alternative view of Shakespeare's true identity. Would the film-makers be surprised to learn that those schoolgirls, eager in anticipation, were far from raucous by the end?
'St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold' is out today nationwide
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