The first St Trinian's was the largest-grossing independant UK film after Four Weddings & A Funeral and this second installment debuted at number two in the UK Box Office (behind Avatar). The story is somewhat crazy (the ending twist is a kind of...what on earth?). In around 1589, Pirate Fritton (Rupert Everett) robs Lord Pomfrey (David Tennant) of his treasure, in order to prevent Pomfrey attempting to overthrow the Queen of England. In 2009, the new term is starting at St Trinian's School for Girls. Camilla Fritton (Rupert Everett) appoints her niece Annabelle Fritton (Talulah Riley) as Head Girl. It is Annabelle's task to try and control all the various cliques at the school. These include the 'Rude Girls' led by Bianca (Zawe Ashton) the 'Posh Totty' led by Chelsea (Tamisn Egerton) the 'Emos' led by Zoe (Montserrat Lombard), the geeks led by Lucy (Ella Smith) and the new girl Roxy (Sarah Harding).
Although this seems futile, when Celia (Juno Temple) is discovered in the library searching for a ring for a mysterious caller who has offered £20,000 for the ring, the girls soon are excited about a new task. When the caller appears in the school, he is revealed to be Piers Pomfrey (David Tennant), leader of AD1-an secret sexist society-and Charity Tsar, who has come to reclaim his ancestors treasure. With the help of Camilla's old flame Jeffrey (Colin Firth) and the ex-Head Girl Kelly (Gemma Arteton) the girls are soon on the bad guys tail , discovering that all cliques can work together (for now). Rupert Everett is incredibly camp as the head mistress and Colin Firth is pretty good sport as her/his love interest. David Tennant is, as usual, brilliant as the bad guy, even if he is sporting a rather intriguing hairstyle. Talulah Riley, Juno Temple & Gemma Arterton all put in fine performances, proving that they are probably ones to watch-Riley has previously appeared as Mary Bennett in the Keria Knightley Pride & Prejudice and in The Boat that Rocked along with the first of these St Trinian's films; Temple is appearing again as Celia, having performed in Atonement with Keria Knightley & James MacAvoy, Wild Child and The Other Boleyn Girl and Arterton has been seen as the title character in the BBC's Tess of the D'Ubervilles and in the most recent James Bond film-Quantom of Solace. The major flaw acting-wise is Sarah Harding of Girls Aloud, who appears in pretty much every scene looking TOTALLY out of place in a school-she looks older that Arterton, and is incredibly wooden. Whilst the story is pretty flimsy, there are a couple of good laughs ('Death is like life, but without the crap things, like poverty, facism and Miley Cyrus'). Not a bad way to spend an hour and a bit.
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