Legally Blonde
© Legally Blonde
Oh, yes: Clever. That is the best single word to describe "Legally Blonde".
Superficially "Legally Blonde" comes across as a Politically Incorrect satire of the stereotypical blonde: Dingy, dumb, breezy, and singularly dumb.
But look again (as you would to a blonde, no doubt checking for dark roots) and see something that is anything but what it seems upon first glance: A wicked comedy that borders on screwball comedy the likes of which hasn't been since the days of Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.
I said: Borders on screwball comedy. It tries but never quite makes it. No matter. "Legally Blonde" is a funny flick.
At the center of this Reese Witherspoon, who plays Elle Woods. (Look up the word 'Elle' in a French dictionary, then chew on the translation into English within the context of this movie, and come to see the sly humor that abounds.) Elle is president of the Delta Nu house on a Los Angeles campus. She is generally approved in this role, she is generally liked, and all seems well for her: She has a perfect grade point average, she has a perfect look, and a perfect life: Often she is found on the arm of Warner Huntington III (Matthew Davis), a GQ centerfold if ever there was one.
But therein lies a problem for Elle: She thinks he plans to propose marriage to her. In reality he plans to dump her.
Oh, how cruel.
Why?
Because, she is told, he plans to be a senator by age 30, and to do that requires he marries a Jackie, not a Marilyn.
--ouch--
Sufficiently stung by this rejection and public humiliation Elle determines to exact revenge on him by ways and means certainly goofy: She will follow him to Harvard Law School and shame him with her intelligence, her intellect, her brilliance as a fellow law student.
Which, of course, she does. But before she does so she finds herself in the position of intern to the famous and brilliant Professor Callahan (Victor Garber). She has been assigned to this particular legal beagle to help in the case of a famous weight-loss consultant (Ali Larter), who stands charged of murdering her much older husband.
Now such a case would seem open-and-shut, but it isn't. (The movie has to be longer than thirty minutes, doesn't it?) The defense is as follows: Would a Delta Nu sleep with a man who wears a thong? What is the chemistry of a perm?
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