“There’ll always be trouble when there’s arson around.”

This gets off to a reassuring start as the school burns to the ground and all 200 pupils find themselves in a courtroom. As I said in the Blue Murder, it would’ve been easy to spin these off every year and just do the exact same story over and over again. The girls are even more sexualised here and ironically that makes it even less shocking really, there being nothing more pathetic in my eyes to people who clearly want to admit that some schoolgirls are sexy but their only way of showing it is to cast people who look to be 10 years out of school, lol. The Hamlet soliloquy to striptease is kind of brilliant (“It’s the suspense … it’s unbearable!”) and it has as many moments as the other films in the series, but again it’s hardly comic genius.

It could be the cumulative effect of watching them all so closely together (one does always need time to adjust to the style and tone of humour in older movies), it could be the beers I had while watching Or it could be the image of the younger St. Trinian’s girls at the end storming an army base in tanks – nothing better in my mind than such a juxtaposition – but this is certainly my fave of the series so far and the one I’m likely to watch again sooner.

Tags: b/w, British, cuties, mischief, school

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