A British sitcom that I know that I will never watch turned into a full length British motion picture that probably had little release in the United States, it's a passable comedy time filler focusing on the staid and uncool administration and teachers of a British high school, all but teacher John Alderton who is one of the chaperones of an overnight school trip, where most of the kids look like they are past college age.
There are some comical moments concerning the by the books strict administrators and teachers who have no sense of fun, with the exception of Alderton, and they are amusing to laugh at, particularly the young women's chaperone, a prim and proper bird like woman who gets the vapors and turns bright red just with the thought of anything sexual. When she sees Alderton and another teacher talking in the hall after school is out, she makes an instant interference to prevent anything inappropriate from happening.
Alderton follows the rules only so he won't be accused of impropriety, but he's one of the cool guys, so the students tend to flock to him and do all they can to avoid all the other elders on the school campus and on vacation. As for the student's hijinks, it's nothing that hasn't been done before, only other films have done it better. If this hadn't been a British sitcom before the movie came out, I might think of it as one of the "Carry-On" movies, although those were a lot funnier. The only way this is a comedy is because of the excessive light-hearted atmosphere, and the laughs really are limited.
There are some comical moments concerning the by the books strict administrators and teachers who have no sense of fun, with the exception of Alderton, and they are amusing to laugh at, particularly the young women's chaperone, a prim and proper bird like woman who gets the vapors and turns bright red just with the thought of anything sexual. When she sees Alderton and another teacher talking in the hall after school is out, she makes an instant interference to prevent anything inappropriate from happening.
Alderton follows the rules only so he won't be accused of impropriety, but he's one of the cool guys, so the students tend to flock to him and do all they can to avoid all the other elders on the school campus and on vacation. As for the student's hijinks, it's nothing that hasn't been done before, only other films have done it better. If this hadn't been a British sitcom before the movie came out, I might think of it as one of the "Carry-On" movies, although those were a lot funnier. The only way this is a comedy is because of the excessive light-hearted atmosphere, and the laughs really are limited.