We went to see St Trinian’s 2, the Legend of Fritton’s Gold on Sunday in Bradford at Cineworld. It was fun to watch, but sadly, it was definitely a sequel, it failed to live up to the sheer audacity and stupidity that St Trinian’s
St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold sees Annabel (Talulah Riley) promoted to Head Girl at St Trinian’s in the absence of Kelly (Gemma Arterton), who now has a new and exciting career as a superspy. Annabel struggles to unite the warring cliques of Posh Totties (led by Tamsin Egerton as Chelsea), Emos (led by Montserrat Lombard’s Zoe), Rude Girls (led by Zawe Ashton’s Bianca), Geeks (led by Ella Smith’s Lucy) and Eco-Warriors (led by Juno Temple’s Celia) but when the evil, woman-hating Lord Pomfrey (David Tennant) stages a raid on the school looking for clues to a 400-year-old treasure, the girls realise that they’ll have to work together if they’re going to solve the mystery and beat him to it.
Meanwhile, headmistress Camilla Fritton (Rupert Everett in full-on Camilla Parker Bowles drag once again) faces difficulties in her relationship with Minister Geoffrey Thwaites (Colin Firth), especially when it’s revealed that Geoffrey might be a member of Pomfrey’s secret woman-hating cabal.
The film has unfortunately had a lot of negative reviews, but these are the people who review every film, even if it isn’t their style. St Trinian’s 2 offers pantomime style comedy in a movie situation. True, the story could have been a bit more polished and slightly more in line with the first film, but nevertheless, the film is still worth a watch, but not until you’ve seen the first! As always, not-so-big films like the first one are cheap to buy, Amazon has it for less than a fiver; you can buy it here.
