There are many comedies that made us laugh during the first decade of the 2000s, but only a few really make us want to see them again and again. ‘A very legal blonde’ is one of them and It’s still as fun (even more) as it was then. If you have never decided to give it a chance, you only have today to do it before it is removed from Netflix.
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Elle Woods is “the typical blonde” or that is how others are quick to define her: always up to date, leader of her university brotherhood and with her Chihuahua Bruiser always hanging by her arm. Her perfect world comes crashing down when her partner decides to leave her because she wants a girlfriend “up to what everyone expects of him.” To which Elle reacts (after drowning sorrows in chocolates) deciding to go to Harvard to study law.
With the title and the premise, it might seem that we are facing the typical two-mile film that has withstood the passage of time very poorly… and nothing is further from the truth. The film directed by Robert Luketic (‘The Ugly Truth’) and scripted by Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith (both also authors of the script for ’10 Reasons to Hate You’) still as fresh and fun as it was in 2001.
Starting with its mix of genres and it is that take advantage of the “fish out of water” topic to combine it with the university and lawyer environment, playing with the contrast of placing a character as funny as Elle and seeing how she relates to her surroundings. Calling it a romantic comedy is wrong because, really, the romantic plot is only the trigger for the action but not a main point in the film.
Here’s one of the reasons the tape has aged so well: does not take its protagonist for stupid. It is the rest of the characters who underestimate her and cannot see beyond the image of a superficial girl who likes to go shopping… when none of this implies that she is not intelligent and a good person.
That is what makes this film special, which, without giving up the comic moments, does not neglect the evolution of its protagonistan evolution that It has nothing to do with ceasing to be who he is but with discovering new facets of his personality.
Reese witherspoon won our hearts portraying that Elle Woods from the tenderness, very well accompanied by Jennifer Coolidge, Selma Blair, Luke Wilson, Matthew Davis, Holland Taylor and the stellar appearances of Linda Cardellini and Raquel Welch.
Reviewing ‘Legally Blonde’ has helped me to rediscover this hilarious comedy, whose script runs like clockwork and knows how to keep up at all times. Entertaining and endearingtake advantage of these last few hours to take a look at it (or enjoy it again) if you haven’t decided yet.