Review of Legally Blonde (2001) by Donny M — 13 Dec 2012

The New Millennium in America has become frighteningly vapid and vacuous, with entertainment just pandering to the lowest common denominator, everything is being dumbed down and watered down. No one has any class anymore, style has been reduced to the shine of technological equipment.

Everything is cellphones and tabloid magazines and flakey internet celebrity gossip. Our news has no accountability and Disney treats children and families like complete idiots. Legally Blonde reflects all of this back at us, but not with intelligence.

It's just a pretty, privilaged blonde rich girl who has it all but still feels the need to prove herself. Does anyone else feel as insulted by this film's premise as I do? Wait, it gets worse.

The film is well acted but only well-written if you consider quirky comedy to be good no matter what the subject matter is. Personally, we have too much of it in mainstream American film. And this has no story, just cliche.

Then, there's money. Money sure bought this movie every shiny, expensive thing it wanted. But it has no taste. None at all. This is nothing more than a New Millennium update of Clueless, but done more to showoff its' budget, not to make intelligent girls feel better about themselves.

It's about how money can buy you anything you want. She buys her way into Harvard and only deals with the pressures of studying and grades through the use of music-montage (sorry, this was better done in the '80s).

She prisses and high-pitch voices her way into the heart of the professor's brainy assistant. And the movie's big budget production fills in the gaps. So it looks like a complete film. But it's actually a big black hole (or should I say a pink hole?).

An empty void. Nothing to take from this but a lesson in what to avoid.