There has been a lot of criticism over the new St Trinians movie, so rather like watching the likes of Epic/Date Movie and Meet The Spartans I thought this would be a good opportunity to add something else to my worst movies of all-time list. Sadly St Trinians was far from bad and all those people that claim it does not add up to the originals are sadly wrong, while the actors don't have the weight of the original movies, and with a few saucy words to bring the movie up to date, structurally there is no difference.

Annabelle Fritton is forced by her father to leave her illustrious school Cheltenham Ladies College and go to the school of her aunt Miss Fritton (Rupert Everett) the world famous, but for the wrong reasons St Trinians. St Trinians is a girls school filled with rogue characters and thugs, education is poor, and the welfare of the girls is far from on Miss Frittons agenda. When Minister Geoffrey Thwaites (Colin Firth) decides to clean up bad schools, and the bailiffs move in to recover a large debt it's up to the girls to save their school.

My biggest criticism of the movie is in the casting of Russell Brand, I really don't know what this is all about, he clearly is no match for George Cole (who played the role of Flash Harry in the original movies), and regardless of the fact that the movies costume designers tried by dressing him in the same attire, the two are a thousand miles apart when it comes to acting. I guess the biggest issues is that Brand's Flash Harry tries to mimic Coles' rather than attempting to make the character his own, whether that was down to Brand himself of the movies producers I guess we will never know, whichever the case it's a dire mistake. This being said undoubtedly Brand fans will support him if he literally appeared and did nothing, Brand is very much the Marmite of entertainers who you either get or don't, and I really don't understand the fascination.

The second criticism and in honestly my last one is that rather like the original the actual plot is incredibly thin, focusing on the two main stories instead of filling space with smaller stories, assuming that its audience is really not capable of taking in too much information, assuming its audience to be on the whole minors. A fact that the movies producers should have taken into account when approaching the British Board Of Film Classification for a certificate, who in the UK imposed the movie with a 12 rating automatically alleviating the need for thin

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