Wanted to like this more than I did

I think I wanted to like this film a lot more than I did. In its' component parts it has a lot going for it, the incomparable Rupert Everett returns as the glorious Miss Camilla Fritton as does Colin Firth as the object of her affections. Thankfully we don't have Russell Brand this time around and David Tennant actually makes a great villain, casting him as a media-darling, celebrity hogging misogynist philanthropist was a great move. The concept of Shakespeare being a woman and of all the pirate stuff is wonderful, Rupert Everett makes a great pirate whether male or female (one wonders is the original Lord Pomfrey intent on deposing Elizabeth the First from personal amabition, Catholicism or misogyny?). Miss Fritton telling the girls the pirate story is marvellous. The sight of the girls sailing Drake's Golden Hind along the Thames is amazing and the scenes at the Globe are great although the faux Shakespeare stuff all goes on slightly too long. The bit where they pose as boys to inflitrate an all boys school is just stupid. It's in slightly bad taste but the sight of the twelve year old girl at the St Trinian's AA meeting boasting how she's been sober for 6 years cracks me up every time, really shows you the extremes that the school goes to. The 'Amy, Amy, Amy' joke is also great although I must confess I didn't get it first time around. And once more this is THE film if you have a uniform fetish, not only do we have the upper sixth in their traditional sexy schoolgirl outfits but here a couple of them dress as naughty nurses too. Love the flash mob scene although I should point out that the modern Globe theatre is not built on the exact site of the original. And now we all know what a honynym is.
But I don't know, it just doesn't seem to hang together as well as the original film, hard to put your finger on what is wrong. That said I'd still happily watch a third and cast Miranda Hart in the Joyce Grenfall role.