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Title: Legally Blonde (2001)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Reese Witherspoon | ... | Elle Woods | |
| Luke Wilson | ... | Emmett | |
| Selma Blair | ... | Vivian Kensington | |
| Matthew Davis | ... | Warner | |
| Victor Garber | ... | Professor Callahan | |
| Jennifer Coolidge | ... | Paulette | |
| Holland Taylor | ... | Professor Stromwell | |
| Ali Larter | ... | Brooke Taylor Windham | |
| Jessica Cauffiel | ... | Margot | |
| Alanna Ubach | ... | Serena | |
| Oz Perkins | ... | Dorky David Kidney | |
| Linda Cardellini | ... | Chutney | |
| Bruce Thomas | ... | UPS Guy | |
| Meredith Scott Lynn | ... | Enid | |
| Raquel Welch | ... | Mrs. Windham Vandermark | |
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 Los Angeles, California, 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. Written by vanessawhistler1971@hotmail.com
Legally Blonde finds Reese Witherspoon in one of her breakthrough roles as sorority queen Elle Woods who is dumped by her preppy boyfriend Matthew Davis. He's moving on to Harvard Law School where he will get his law degree, marry a woman of good background in Selma Blair and claim the family legacy of public office. So there's no time for his homecoming queen Reese although I'm sure he'd arrange something on the side later.
She's totally floored by this, but our intrepid girl vows to fight fire with fire. If he can go be a Hah-Vard Law School Graduate so can she. I mean she's got a 4.0 GPA even if it is in fashion design.
But beneath her Barbie Doll personality, she actually does have a brain. She aces the law boards and sends a unique video essay that is something different for the admission committee to ponder. She gets to Harvard to be with Davis, who's unfortunately there with Blair.
At this point the charm of Reese Witherspoon really takes over and dominates the film. I'm not sure anyone else could have pulled off the part of Elle Woods. With that wonderful combination of charm and guilelessness, Reese Witherspoon has created an endearing character, one she's already done a sequel film with.
She's nicely aided by Luke Wilson as an attorney and crony of one of her law professors. Another performance that I liked was that of Holland Taylor as a feminist law professor who's initially put off by Witherspoon, but gradually comes to appreciate her worth.
In fact in the end just about everyone in the film comes to appreciate her worth, some to their regret.
I don't know about you, but I'd like to see a Legally Blonde 3.