Legally Blonde isn't, as you might have guessed, mentally challenging movie. In fact, probably the most surprising thing about this is that it's based on a book - presumably the same airhead feel-good fluff designed to be read by careerists on the train to the office.

Plot: well, there is none to speak of really. Reese Witherspoon, Fashion major, loses out when her boyfriend decides to dump her because he wants to run for Senate ; she decides she still wants him, and decides to go to Harvard law school to become a lawyer, so  she can win him back.

So its like Rocky meets Clueless, minus all the innovation or social commentary/sarcasm that made Clueless so much more than just a dumb teen movie. Cue the usual array of snobby locals who are upstaged by the blonde fashion major who is out of place, add a subplot about a manicurist, and then ensure she serves on a case where only her extreme vanity can prove that their client may not be guilty after all....

Its braindeath in a jar, not even that entertaining, and it makes you wonder why this sort of movie gets made, let alone released onto 100's of screens across England. The fact its adapted off a book is even more amazing; when there's a great many more books out there begging to be adapted for the screen (William Gibson's  "Neuromancer" for one, ), why choose one as facile, emptyheaded and pointless as this? Its got all the substance of a Cosmo advert.

Worse still, its not even entertaining. Its like bad soap opera. Full of cliches, hackneyed storyline , totally lacking originality too. Don't wait til it comes on TV. Just don't see it, at all ever.  

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