Review – Legally Blonde

The world of Grisham-esque legal drama meets Clueless in a movie that spends most of its time banking on its own quirkiness. The story’s simple enough: an airhead (Reese Witherspoon) who gets dumped by her snobby boyfriend decides to get even with him by getting into his law school. The fact that he goes to Harvard shouldn’t stretch credulity too much, I guess. As usual with such comedies, this outing’s at its most amusing when it abandons pretense at plot (not to mention subplot after subplot) and sticks with one-liners and sight gags. And sure, even the amusing parts depend fairly heavily on clichés long familiar to most moviegoers. But if you’re looking for a little brain-dead entertainment at the end of a long week you could do a lot worse. Mildly amusing