Review of Legally Blonde (2001) by Campbell P — 08 May 2015

I'm personally shocked at how much I enjoyed Legally Blonde. I expected to hate it as some of these movies tend to get on my nerves but it ended up catching my interest. There's really a lot to like about this chick flick and the best part being Reese Witherspoon.

She was perfect for the role of Elle Woods. She's innocent, naive, and determined and proves to be a possible role model for girl viewers in my opinion. I'm being totally serious when I say I can consider her performance almost empowering even if it's not for the right reason at first.

The rest of the cast did a fine job, Luke Wilson had this off whispery tone that I didn't understand but it's knit picking. The story, while I did enjoy it, was cheesy. A girl who aspires to go to Harvard so she can be with her boyfriend is really corny but it works so I guess I can't complain too much.

Her courtroom scene is really good because once she's handed the case, I like that she's not totally prepared, in fact she stuttered a lot thorough it until she found her ground. I like how it took time for her to get good with knowledge about law but I think a montage doesn't show a ton of studying or practice, it really just went to her getting right answers.

I think that could've been handled a bit better in my opinion. A few other things I found problems with is the romance in this movie and how it's a throwaway and that there's not much chemistry between the two until the very last minute.

Also the movie wraps up way too quickly at the last half hour and actually did affect the way I viewed the movie from that point on. The ending was actually really spot on of what I wanted to happen and had a good payoff even if it did wrap up kinda quick.

As for laughs, I laughed at some parts but not hard. It's really more of chuckle worthy laughs. Legally Blonde was not terrible like I thought it would be. It's flawed for sure but it's a fun time and Reese Witherspoon is really what drives this film and it works.

B.