St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold

The surefire hit value of the original gymslip-with-attitude capers - stockinged lovelies for the dads and rebellious school brats for the kids - was lucratively rekindled in the 2007 reboot St Trinian's

Now the girls are back...and facing a new adversary - David Tennant's women-hating tycoon and his plans to snatch the mythical Fritton's gold from beneath the noses of the bolshie babes.

If it ain't broke don't fix it is the philosophy of the film-makers so there's little departure from the template - short skirts and push-up bras - that pulled in £12.5m at the British box office alone.

Russell Brand's Flash Harry is gone but Rupert Everett's anarchic headmistress Camila Fritton and Colin Firth's gone-to-seed ex-government minister are back.

New kids on the block include Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding as a too-cool-for-school rock chick who counts The Kaiser Chief's Ricky Wilson among her conquests.

Tennant visibly relishes his role as bad boy, the smarmy leader of a secret misogynist sect that you could quite easily see including the Top Gear team in its feminist-loathing ranks.

The jokes predictably plunder current pop culture - Miley Cyrus, Lady GaGa etc - but there's also room for a couple of crackers including the (albeit dated) line that Monica Lewinski has "had greatness thrust upon her."

Diehard fans will lap it up...