January 25, 2004
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
It would be hard not to like this movie.
The character of Elle Woods as depicted by Reese Witherspoon nearly defies description. She is a cheerful ditzy blonde fashion plate. She's also an over-achieving lawyer career woman. But her defining characteristic is that she is unfailingly kind. Somehow Witherspoon manages to make all these alternate Elles work well enough that I completely accepted her as a real person.
The movie has her leaving her law practice after discovering that her chihuahua's mother is a cosmetics test animal. She takes her outrage to Washington D. C. where she goes to work for a senator played by Sally Field. Elle uses all her skills and resources to get her animal test ban bill passed in the face of resistance from various other cogs in the political machine.
It's a fantasy, sure, but a fantasy with a vital message: in a democracy, politics should not be a spectator sport.
Posted by jeffy at January 25, 2004 09:18 PM