Wild Child posits an all-girl English boarding school as a kind of Guantanamo Bay-style correctional facility for a misbehaving Malibu princess (Emma Roberts, niece of Julia).

“That’s the final straw, you’re going to England,” thunders her father (Aidan Quinn). Cue awful food, compulsory lacrosse and no mobile phones, under the tyranny of a snooty head girl.

It should be fun but never snaps into gear.