Tuesday 20 March 2012

Wild Child (2008) 7/10

Starring : Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer, Aidan Quinn, Natasha Richardson
Director : Nick Moore
Running Time : 95 mins

Rebellious American teenager Poppy Moore (Roberts) goes a step too far and her father Gerry (Quinn) decides to ship her off to an English boarding school as punishment. She finds herself in a world where there’s no mobile phones and no fashion sense, as well as gangs of hateful girls that don’t like the attention Poppy is getting from Freddie (Pettyfer), the son of headmistress Mrs Kingsley (Richardson), but the one thing she does find is a good circle of true friends.

For what it is, this isn’t a bad movie. Basically taking the plot from every single fish out of water movie you can think of, this manages to come up with a nice story that uses elements of the recent St Trinian’s movies and combines them with some real character building that makes for some fun and interesting viewing. It was also nice that the adult characters are only there for background and don’t carry the story which is well performed by the teenaged cast.

You’ll like this if you liked : St Trinian’s


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