it be a lousy remake of what be a superb original film . certain film have a time and place and this one belong in a post war grammar or private school and not in a current comprehensive school . the old british grammar school have good and bad quality but there be a general aspiration to greatness . during the 1960s the left wing labour government destroy anything that be good in british education and replace it with bland comprehensiveness . last year ( 2004 ) they apologise and admit the mistake a bit late for the unfortunate pupil of the 60 and 70 who be stick in their dreadful system . the remake be just like the school it be set in and bland and soulless the ideal training ground for future telephone sanitisers .