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Legally Blonde (2001) Review
Legally Blonde (2001): information
| Movie | Legally Blonde |
| Real Name | N/a |
| Rating | 6.8 |
| Duration | 96 Min |
| Aired | 2001-07-13 |
| Types | MOVIE |
| Languages | English |
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Sources
Countries
United States of America
Genres
Tags
Father murderBlondeSuperficialityBeauty salonLaw schoolMurderGirl powerToy dogChihuahua dogBlonde stereotypeProving oneselfMurder confession
Directors
Robert Luketic
Stars
Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber, Jennifer Coolidge
Writers
Kirsten Smith, Karen McCullah
Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Marc Platt Productions
Taglines
Boldly going where no blonde has gone.
Description
Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all. She wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading to law school. Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. While there, she figures out that there is more to herself than just looks.
Review
Author: Geronimo1967
Reese Witherspoon ("Elle") is the archetypal sorority success. Gorgeous, glamorous, clever and dating the most handsome man at her school "Warner" (Matthew Davis). Then, all of a sudden he decamps to law school and leaves his naturally blonde girlfriend behind. She's having none of that, follows him to Harvard determined to win him back from his new sweetheart "Vivian" (Selma Blair) and the battle is on. She goes from being queen of the castle to struggling girl with alarming speed, and as she comes to terms with her new status. she reappraises her sense of priorities - especially when she alights of simple old "Emmett" (Luke Wilson). Not remotely her type, or is he? Perhaps if I were American, I could get more from the "frat" culture that this is predicated on, but I'm not and so it just came across to me as a pushy girl used to getting her own way, having to deal with a few bumps in the road. There is comedy, but it is pretty puerile and one only hopes Harvard has since beefed up it's entrance exams. Witherspoon is good - she evokes well something I found detestable about the character she portrays; but I'm afraid I just found it all just a bit too predictable. By no means the worst from the spate of rom-coms that started off this new millennium, but that doesn't make it good either.