Critic Reviews

• Ray Bennett, Hollywood Reporter

  Strident, clumsy and pointless.

• Edward Porter, Sunday Times (UK)

  It's another panto for 10-year-old girls, in which any given scene could - with only the addition of canned laughter - pass for something from children's television.

• Philip French, Observer [UK]

  The tone is broad, vulgar and exuberant and its hunt for lost treasure ends up inventively at the Globe Theatre. Schoolgirls and those who like ogling schoolgirls will enjoy it.

• Neil Smith, Total Film

  A film that flails about wildly in search of at least one half-decent joke. Tragically, the closest it gets is having a dog hump Colin Firth's leg.

• , Radio Times

  This sub-Carry On romp wearily coasts along on the lines of a rudimentary old-school farce rather than anything resembling wit.

• Nicholas Barber, Independent on Sunday

  This contrived sequel is an interminable, headache-inducing time-waster that never picks up any speed, weighed down as it is by far too many characters, and far too many slow-motion shots of the girls striding towards the camera.

• Robbie Collin, News of the World

  This jaw-droppingly hopeless sequel deserves to be packed off for a one-way exchange trip to Columbine.

• Allan Hunter, Screen International

  Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson do nothing here to destroy a winning formula which is cannily constructed to appeal to the target audience of teenage girls and nobody else.

• Kevin Maher, Times [UK]

  Cheap, ramshackle entertainment that's nevertheless imbued with affection.

• Xan Brooks, Guardian [UK]

  If there is a cinematic equivalent of a Christmas panto this season, it is surely St Trinian's 2, which is broad and ramshackle, cheap and gaudy.

• Sukhdev Sandhu, Daily Telegraph

  The piratical-treasure story is totally hokum, but it's all peppy, whiz-bang stuff livened up no end by Talulah Riley's fetching turn as Head Girl.

• Tim Evans, Sky Movies

  Diehard fans will lap it up...but it's difficult to see it winning any new converts.

• Christopher Tookey, Daily Mail [UK]

  St Trinians 2 achieves the near-impossible, by being even cruder, messier and more amateurish than the first outing.

• David Edwards, Daily Mirror [UK]

  St Trinian's 2 isn't just appalling, it's like scouring those final, last-gasp instalments of the Carry On or Confessions Of... movies looking for a laugh.

• Alex Zane, Sun Online

  The report card reads: Good when applying itself but must try harder.

• Anthony Quinn, Independent

  A cavalcade of schoolgirls filled out the press screening of this movie, and very welcome to it they were.

• Allan Hunter, Daily Express

  The slapdash sequel doesn't tamper with the winning formula, which means lots more joyless slapstick, crude stereotypes and girls behaving very badly.

• Derek Malcolm, This is London

  Judging by the first of the new St Trinian's films, we shouldn't have expected more than rudimentary farce from the second.

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold is watchable enough thanks to the performances but it's not as much fun as the first film and the law of diminishing returns with sequels is in full effect.

• Mike McCahill, Scotsman

  The girl-power subtext is about as sincere as a speech one student is given about climate change. St Trinian's remains the franchise that will show you its knickers - and say whatever you want to hear - for a pound.

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