Veronica Di Grigoli

The lead character absolutely fails to make us care about her, as she shows no emotion of any kind throughout the film. It's not even bad acting: she's literally not trying to act at all. The action moves so slowly it's just painful to sit through. And the plot is nonsensical. It's not just far-fetched. Nothing that happens even follows it's own internal logic so you couldn't suspend disbelief even if the leading lady actually did have a bit of screen presence or could be bothered trying to act. Truly atrocious in every way.

The best aspect of this film is the spot-on parody of English public schools, which could only have been created by people who have been to them. There are so many brilliantly portrayed character types in this film, from the grungy eco-warriors to the public school kids to the complacent headmaster. It's hard to pick out one particularly good actor as they were all convincing and hilarious. I think the negative reviews may largely be from Americans, because they would have missed so many of the social references and parodies. For a film with plenty of silliness, lots of the humour is very English and very subtle. I absolutely loved it.