Legally Blonde
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Director: | Robert Luketic | Actors: | Reese Witherspoon (as Elle Woods), Luke Wilson (as Emmett Richmond), Selma Blair (as Vivian Thelma Kensington), Matthew Davis (II) (as Warner Huntington, III), Victor Garber (as Professor Callahan), Jennifer Coolidge (as Paulette Bonafonté), Holland Taylor (as Professor Margaret Stromwell), Ali Larter (as Brooke Taylor Windham), Jessica Cauffiel (as Margot Sweeney), Alanna Ubach (as Serena McGuire), Oz Perkins (as David 'Dorky' Kidney), Linda Cardellini (as Chutney Windham), Bruce Thomas (I) (as UPS Guy), Meredith Scott Lynn (as Enid Wexler), Raquel Welch (as Mrs. Windham-Vandermark) | Country: | USA | Category: | Comedy | Year: | 2001 | Personal Rating: | |
| Description: | *** DVD Rip: Yes - Quality: High *** Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) has it all. She's the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dates the cutest fraternity boy on campus and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But, there's just one thing stopping Warner (Matthew Davis) from popping the question: Elle is too blonde. Growing up across the street from Aaron Spelling might mean something in LA, but nothing to Warner's East-Coast blue blood family. So, when Warner packs up for Harvard Law and reunites with an old sweetheart from prep school, Elle rallies all her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. But law school is a far cry from the comforts of her poolside and the mall. Elle must wage the battle of her life, for her guy, for herself and for all the blondes who suffer endless indignities everyday. | Imported Comments: | In `Legally Blonde,' – which could well be re-titled `Clueless Goes to Harvard' - the delightful Reese Witherspoon stars as a ditzy, fashion-obsessed airhead who winds up (through plot complications too elaborate to go through) taking that Ivy League law school by storm. Needless to say, there is not a single believable moment in the film, but that is generally the case with most fish-out-of-water scenarios anyway. What `Legally Blonde' does have is a warm spirit, a bubbly demeanor and a breezy charm that reflect to a tee the personality of its main character. Although the film does not exhibit the same level of comic genius we found in `Clueless,' Witherspoon's letter-perfect rendition of the bubblehead stereotype earns the film a great deal of audience goodwill, a factor that helps us to get over some of the movie's flatter moments. For indeed, throughout the course of this tale, we do hit a number of arid stretches where we feel that we should be laughing an awful lot more than we are. In fact, `Legally Blonde' occasionally feels more like a concept in search of a movie than a full-fledged work in its own right. But, just as you are about to give up on it, the filmmakers hit upon a hilarious concept, sight gag or line of dialogue, which help to set the movie back on track. Clearly, Witherspoon is the big selling point of this film. As an actress, she exudes such an air of intelligence, confidence and compassionate goodwill that she invests even her dumb blonde character with those seemingly paradoxical traits. `Legally Blonde' isn't always at the top of its form, but Witherspoon wins the case for the film hands down anyway. |
Languages: | English | Subtitles: | None | Length: | 96 | Video format: | DivX 3.11 Low Motion | Audio format: | MPEG Layer 3 (MP3) | Resolution: | 576x240 | Files sizes (Mb): | 700 |