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| | Legally Blonde |
 | | Legally Blonde is, of course, a pun on "legally blind," and that's a pretty good place to start in assessing this movie, which seems to perceive its lead character as, at best, a wispy blur. |
 | | Legally Blonde, if it had more presumptions to substance, might be called a "vanity project" for star Reese Witherspoon, and yet the term would have to be ironic, because the character of Elle Woods is both its reason for being and its central flaw. |
 | | What saves Legally Blonde and makes it disappointingly mediocre instead of annoyingly coy and offensive is that Reese-as-Elle—whom, by the way, Reese brings off with some charm—is not required to Learn a Very Valuable Lesson, nor is Legally Blonde at any point suggestive that it is secretly a Very Important Film. |
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