LEGALLY BLONDE 2

REVIEWED BY CHRISTINA RILEY

Our rating: 3 out of 5

Because of: homosexual innuendoes

Rated:

Legally Blonde 2 subtitled “Red, White, and Blonde” was very much like the original. In the first and second Legally Blonde, Elle Woods (Resse Witherspoon) has to overcome her stereotypically blonde ways and seemingly endless number of enemies who try to stop her from believing in and realizing her dream. Emmett (Luke Wilson) plays Elle's loyal, understanding, and supportive fiancée. If you saw the first movie, you have a pretty good idea about how Elle acts, laughs, walks, and talks. In fact, all of her friends act the same as Elle. They are cheerful, sniggly and girly! Another obvious similarity between the first and second film is that  Elle always seems bamboozled about what she is doing. For an example, she starts out with an idea, project or plan, and thinks to do things her way. Inevitably, she experiences a setback, put down, or major embarrassment; in response she buckles down and achieves her dream.

Somewhat disappointingly, the two Legally Blonde movies are different versions of the same story. The movie like many others is like a trilogy of themes all in one story.  In the second film there are three major stories: Elle's Wedding, Bruiser's Issues (finding his mom and revealing her identity), and Elle's Experience in Washington. In the theme of Elle planning her wedding, she desperately wants Bruiser to attend with his mom, but is unexpectedly met with much resistance. As a result of her very strong desire and relentless vigor, Elle sets off to find the mother of her faithful dog. In her attempts to save Bruiser’s mom, Elle decides to employ the services of the best private detective in town. In the nick of time, Elle arrives at the scientific laboratory where Bruiser’s mom is being held as a test subject for cosmetic makeup and product research.

After a series of attempts, the scientist in charge at the lab does not release Bruiser’s mom, so Elle goes to Washington to make animal testing illegal. While in Washington D.C. she has numerous setbacks, friends, enemies, and victories. She also sends a “wake up call” to Washington by getting things done the “Elle Woods” way. In pursuit of her political victory to change the law, an unexpected scene unfolds where someone informs Elle that “Bruiser,” the great wearer of pink is gay. In fact, it doesn't make any sense at all to have included the topic of dogs being gay in the movie. Several scenes present information about Bruiser being gay as some type of exciting and warmly welcomed revelation. To the contrary, I found nothing amusing about the topic.

There is also a balance forward approach to the sequel in that all of Elle’s sorority sisters and friends from Harvard are in the movie.  While in Washington, Elle works under Victoria Rudd (Sally Field) who was a past and well known sorority sister at Harvard as a legislative aide. At first, Elle is totally oblivious to the political world but catches on quickly to the tricks and trades of politics. There were some good things about the movie. Elle's clothes were very cute! Even though most of her outfits are pink she still has very cool fashions!

In my opinion, the first  Legally Blonde was better because the plot was fresher. Legally Blonde 2 was very redundant. The same plot made the movie boring and you pretty much knew already what she was going to do next.  Truth of the matter is, anyone can follow the sequel even if they did not see the original. I would have to agree with some critics that Legally Blonde 2 went to the dogs.