Robert Luketic directs Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson and Selma Blair in this smash hit college comedy where fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods follows her ex-boyfriend to law school, where she discovers that there is more to her than just looks.

This one never chimed with me. I was a big Reese booster up until this point. Freeway. Election. Pleasantville. Yet the movie that made her a household name and a box office force to be reckoned with felt blatantly … meh. I’m going to come out and say that it was the midpoint “Bend and Snap” scene that made me realise it just wasn’t for me. I watch Waters and I watch Lynch but they have never made me feel so alien to a sequence as that. WTF? In general… Takes too long to set up its dominoes but the My Cousin Vinny in pink third act is quite watchable.

5

Perfect Double Bill: Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)

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