Natürlich blond! (2001)

Natürlich blond!: Directed by Robert Luketic. With Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis. Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen, is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school. While she is there, she figures out that there is more to her than just looks.

“As a middle-aged bloke, a ditzy, frothy blonde who dresses in designer pink and who has as a pet a Chihuahua, who also dressed in pink would have me running for the hills, screaming and violently pulling out my own fingernails.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eUnless itu0026#39;s Reese Witherspoon, for whom I do have a soft spot for especially when sheu0026#39;s exactly like Miss Elle Woods here. The story itself is really rather far-fetched but even this aspect is sort of sorted by some generous bending of unwritten rules and smart legal jargon.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLegally Blonde will always work better for me, when Miss Woods is gaily arranging sorority parties and being just ridiculously OTT about fashion choices and tartly responding when others try and make her look ridiculous. This comic timing is perfectly suited to the bubbly and vibrant Witherspoon and she remains a tonic throughout.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe court case that she falls into defending might be essential to the story of how she gets her legal qualifications and to prove all her doubters totally wrong, but for me, this plays second fiddle to the comedy I mention. The romance angle, an essential premise, as at the start, her boyfriend Warner, who she was absolutely sure was going to propose to her, dumps her, essentially because sheu0026#39;s a u0026#39;dumbu0026#39; blonde.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHeu0026#39;s off to Harvard and so, naturally, Elle scrapes through the preliminaries with the skimpiest of appropriate qualifications (majoring in obscure fashion, for example) so that he could no longer hold that reason against her. He, though, is already dating the surly Selma Blair.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIu0026#39;ve probably seen Legally… three times now. The sequel/s donu0026#39;t command any great affection for me but this original is one that is both a great comedy and has a real feel-good factor too, without resorting to the gross-out and toilet humour thatu0026#39;s unfortunately seen as an essential ingredient in todayu0026#39;s US comedies.”