Movie Crush Monday: Little C and St. Trinians

IIIIIIT'S MONDAY AGAIN!

Sorry, just thought I would try and inject a little enthusiasm into this day that no one seems to like very much. As you read this I am recovering from Wonder Con 2015. It was everything I dreamed of and more, but three days of being surrounded by 50,000 nerds has me a little detached from reality. We got home last night and went to see Furious 7 (We both cried) and I kept wondering what the people in the movie theater were cosplaying as before I remembered that I was back in the real world, and that's just how people dress.

I was reflecting on our recent choices for the Movie Crush posts and... well... We've gotten a little heavy on you. Our last three have been very pretty but very serious movies. So I thought I'd lighten things up a little and make my post about a bunch of delinquent British School girls:

2007's St. Trinians

This movie is a wild ride, start to finish. The premise is that there's a school in England where they send all of the girls who are too wild to fit in anywhere else. And when the bank tries to shut the school down, the girls have to come together to save it by stealing a painting from the British museum. The school and the characters are based off an off-color comic series by Ronald Searle that was beloved in England for decades. Like a British Calvin and Hobbs if Calvin had been a girl and sent away to a boarding school.

The girls in this movie are on point. They're all versions of the traditional high school cliques, but with criminal twists. They're making bootleg vodka, and plastic explosives in science class. They're torturing the first years in art. They're learning how to establish an alibi in French. And of course, when it comes to sports, they're not above cheating. I would have killed to have gone to this school.

And possibly have been killed by attending it...

As with any comedy, the cast really makes this film. Every talented British actress who could even kind of pass for school girl age is somewhere in the film, and they're lead by Gemma Arterton (Who we've already discussed our love for) and Talulah Riley. The supporting cast includes Russell Brand and Colin Firth, both of whom are having way too much fun. Then of course there's Rupert Everett who plays both the school's headmistress and her no good twin brother.

Perfection

So if you're in need of a little levity in your life, this movie is 90minutes of non-stop fun. 

Happy watching,

Little C