The love-child of 'Clueless' and Enid Blyton's 'The Naughtiest Girl in School' series, 'Wild Child' is essentially a good old English boarding school romp, with the veneer of American hipness. The result? Well, it's hardly wild, but that's just part of the charm.

Poppy Moore (Emma Roberts) is a spoilt Malibu brat, complete with Jimmy Choo's, blonde extensions and a fashionable, but insincere, entourage. When her father (Aidan Quinn) brings home his new wife, she wreaks havoc and is promptly packed off to a single-sex English boarding school to learn some manners.

The transition is… difficult. A caricature of American brashness, Poppy alienates her friendly roommates, gets on the wrong side of the stuck-up head girl Harriet (Georgia King) and annoys the hell out of the audience.

Luckily her roommates eventually take pity on her and decide to help her get herself expelled. What follows are some good old-fashioned pranks, a few fashion montages and a whole lot of lacrosse (duh! obligatory at boarding schools across England).

Along the way, aided by the beneficent headmistress Mrs Kingsley (Natasha Richardson) and her charming son Freddie (Alex Pettyfer), a beautiful English rose emerges from the cocoon of American crassness and Poppy realises that she actually wants to stay.

This is — of course — followed by some seemingly insurmountable obstacles, a Lesson, a lacrosse montage and a happy ending.

Written by Roald Dahl's daughter, Lucy Dahl, the predictable story is not without some very witty one-liners. Targeting a younger, more innocent, audience than either 'Clueless' or 'Mean Girls', 'Wild Child' is pretty tame. But hey, 'Seemingly-bratty-but-actually-just-damaged-and-really-very-nice-and-fun Child' wouldn't have made a very snappy title.