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"Legally Blonde"
(Reviewed July 12, 2001)
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So-so hybrid of "Clueless" and "My Cousin Vinnie." Reese Witherspoon is likeable but never thoroughly engaging as a stereotypical cartoonish blond California sorority girl who manages to get into Harvard Law School after cramming for her LSATs and sending the admissions committee a video essay that she narrates from poolside in a bikini. Sounds funnier than it is...which sums up the whole movie. Almost all of the humor is from sitcom-land: lines and gags that you can see coming from across the quad.
Still, no one who pays to see this movie will be terribly disappointed, because it pretty much is "as advertised." But anyone who has seen Reese Witherspoon in the excellent "Election" will be disappointed that the script here is not as smart as she is. Rent that one instead of wasting time on this.
Back Row Grade: C-
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