Legally Blonde 2 (2003)

Elle Woods heads to Washington, D.C. to join the staff of a Representative in order to pass a bill to ban animal testing.

Director:

Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

Writers:

Amanda Brown (characters), Eve Ahlert (story)

Stars:

Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field, Bob Newhart

3 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Reese Witherspoon	...	Elle Woods
Sally Field	...	Congresswoman Rudd
Regina King	...	Grace Rossiter
Jennifer Coolidge	...	Paulette Parcelle
Bruce McGill	...	Stanford Marks
Dana Ivey	...	Libby Hauser
Mary Lynn Rajskub	...	Reena Giuliani
Jessica Cauffiel	...	Margot
Alanna Ubach	...	Serena McGuire
J Barton	...	Timothy McGinn
Stanley Anderson	...	Michael Blaine
Bruce Thomas	...	UPS Guy
Bob Newhart	...	Sid Post
Luke Wilson	...	Emmett Richmond
Ruth Williamson	...	Madeline Kroft

Storyline

Sassy postgrad Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) is all about animal rights. In fact, she puts her nuptial plans on hold to head to Washington, D.C. to get an anti-animal testing bill passed. Her building's doorman quickly shows her the ways and workings of our nation's capital.

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Plot Keywords:

beauty salon | transvestism | the white house | pretty thin thing | washington d.c. | 

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Taglines:

Bigger. Bolder. Blonder

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some sex-related humor

Did You Know?

Trivia

Reese Witherspoon was pregnant during filming.

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Goofs

When Elle calls to activate the Delta Nu phone tree, there is screaming at the Delta Nu house and then they hang up the phone. Then Elle is shown on the phone still listening to screaming until she hangs up.

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Quotes

Stanford Marks: You're the girl with the perfumed poo-poo bags, aren't you?
Elle: Actually I'm the woman with the scented waste receptacles, but yes

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Connections

Referenced in Midnight Screenings: Bad Teacher/Cars 2 (2011)

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Soundtracks

We Can
Written by Diane Warren
Performed by LeAnn Rimes
Produced by Dan Huff
LeAnn Rimes appears courtesy of Curb Records, Inc.

User Reviews

Not good at all.

Although I recognize the fact that I'm a guy and shouldn't like chick flicks anyway, Legally Blonde 2 was ridiculous on so many levels that after watching the movie I had to lower my head in shame.

The first LB movie, while not very funny, was still entertaining to watch because it actually had effort put into the storyline. It was interesting to see a fashion-obsessed blonde in pink apparently not fitting in at Harvard law school. They tried the same approach with LB2, only with her walking into congress buildings wearing her all pink outfits. However, since we've already seen that attempt at humor in the first movie, it just wasn't anything special.

Aside from that, the plot outline was horrible. Basically, Elle Woods (Witherspoon) is having an upcoming wedding where she plans to invite the mother of her pet dog. She discovers that the dog's mother is in a lab, where they were testing fingernail polish on the dog's nails. Elle got sad and was like 'I am going to go to DC and make it illegal for them to test on animals!' The viewer, however, doesn't really care, realizing that putting nail polish on a dog's nails really isn't that big of a deal, but hey.

I'm not trying to sound mean, but I just can't really think of anything good about this movie. Every single joke used in the movie was either not funny or recycled from the first one. The entire concept of the plot is just retarded. It even seemed Reese was half-assing her acting job through the movie, doing even worse than she did in the first film. Nobody else in the movie will be nominated for any Oscars, either.

It just seemed that some filmmaker wanted to cash in from the first movie's success, knowing that people will pay money to see this movie just because the first one was popular. All of the production team's effort went into marketing and hype and they just didn't put enough into the actual movie itself.

2 out of 10

Details

Official Sites:

MGM

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 July 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

Legally Blonde 2

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$45,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$22,220,670, 6 July 2003

Gross USA:

$90,186,328

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$124,914,842

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Marc Platt Productions, Type A Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1