Exploitive

Rating: 2/10 (13 September 2009)

This movie was carefully crafted to suck in the gullible viewer who does not discriminate between the possible and the pretentious. Other reviewers have decried the formula of the heavy-handed headmaster, the easily led teachers, and the newcomer who comes with the fresh ideas to usurp the methods of the school. I went to a boarding school in England in 1949 so I remember what it was like. I know for sure that there was no way a motley group of boys, especially all from one class (and how different ages were assigned to one class escapes me) would be able to sing as was shown. From my childhood I remember the interminable time it took to achieve such a standard, and still we could not quite get there. Nice singing our course but so exploitive!