Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The idea of a reality TV show based on an old fashioned finishing school is promising. But this show completely fails to live up to the "lady" end of the idea. The teachers thoroughly fail to live up to my idea of a lady. They raise their voices most of the time. They put little effort into their appearance aside from such distasteful things as enough fake suntan as to turn orange, bleached hair, etc. They go so far as to accuse the girls of being "professional" (I leave you to figure THAT out). All in all I enjoyed the background music and the idea. But the teachers and general execution of this show leave a lot to be desired. I can't see anyone actually becoming a "lady" under the direction of those women.

I ignored the first few episodes of this series - mainly put off by the strange title! When I accidentally clicked on to the pay TV channel it is run on, I started watching out of curiosity - and was hooked. What a motley crew of girls these people have chosen for the show! I have the impression that very few of them have any wish to improve themselves one iota - and are just in it for what they can get. Regardless of this, it is compulsive viewing - I will stay with it to the end in the hope that at least one of them shows some improvement in appearance and behaviour. Having said that, I wouldn't wish to change it - there is a lot of humour and a fair bit of insight into human behaviour in the show. Probably the most interesting is to see the impossible goals set by the ladies who run the "finishing school" - they obviously are living in another era - and seem determined to transform the girls into some sort of throwback to the 1950s. I look forward to finding how it all turned out

In spite of the criticism about this series, I've actually quite enjoyed it. I don't think it's that the teachers are patronising so much as that they and the girls are from completely different backgrounds. If they weren't, there would be no tension and therefore no point in the series.I don't know if the series was inspired by the musical My Fair Lady, but I'm tempted to compare it. The difference here, however, is that the girls can't just switch to ladylike perfection in the space of five minutes because they are real people, taking part in a real experiment. Following that logic, it makes sense, as they're at the school, to put them in situations (parties, holidays etc) that they are used to, in order to assess whether they're putting their new social skills to good use or not.At university, I often come up against people whose social behaviour would certainly shock the teachers at Eggleston Hall, and sometimes I think that this sort of finishing school experience is exactly the thing some people need. I'm only twenty-two, but sometimes I'm actually shocked by people in my own generation (male and female). I think I might be atypical of girls in my age range, but I've never fitted into the stereotype of the hard-drinking, partying teenager, so I actually wish I could do something like this for myself (for the experience as much as social improvement) and I don't often think that about much that I see on television. I'll definitely be watching the series until the end.

As I write this, we're waiting in anticipation of the final episode to screen on Pay TV in Australia. Everyone we know who has seen this show makes comment that, in terms of reality TV, this is exactly the right mix of humor, challenge, personality and reality.As the name suggests, a number of "ladettes" are challenged to become "ladies" and go through a weekly elimination to stay with the program.You'll get to see the practical challenges the ladettes (girls) face as they are molded into ladies by the staff of the finishing school, and at times, they certainly have their work cut out for them.No spoilers, no hints -- just watch this if you get the opportunity. None funnier !