Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4097 in VHS
• Released on: 2002-05-27
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 92 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
An extraordinary comic performance from Reese Witherspoon makes Legally Blonde a winner. Witherspoon’s Elle is a ditzy blonde forced by circumstances to metamorphose into a strong-minded and academic lawyer, without losing her strong sense of self in the process. After majoring in fashion sales, she applies to Harvard Law School to pursue the boy who jilted her, and discovers that she is smart as well as beautiful.

Much of this is standard fish-out-of-water fare, with drab "intellectuals" snubbing the colourful and well-meaning Elle. Yet feminists will be disconcerted to discover that, apparently, a life of manicures and accessorising will teach you as much about female solidarity as decades of consciousness-raising! Recruited to the defence team of a fitness guru, she takes the defendant’s innocence for granted rather than feeling superior to her. Gradually, she and her ex's new fiancée build a fragile friendship that matters to both of them; Selma Blair is excellent as the snobbish vulnerable Vivienne. It might be a predictable self-help fairytale, but it’s also well-observed, cute and funny.

On the DVD: the DVD is presented in 1.78:1 ratio with 5.1 Dolby digital sound as standard. The disc also comes with a wealth of features, including a documentary on the film's obsession with hairstyles--outlining the struggle to keep its heroine bleach blonde from day to day--and a bubbly commentary from Witherspoon and director Robert Luketic. There are also promos, a theatrical trailer and an optional trivia track. --Roz Kaveney

Synopsis
Blonde air-head, Elle is distraught to find out that her boyfriend, Warner, feels he has to dump her before going to Harvard University in order to fit in. She becomes so determined to win him back, she enrols at the same university and starts teaching the snobs a thing or two...

Customer Reviews

Pink, Pink , PINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i LOVED THIS MOVIE!!!!!! I am a big fan of pink and this film suits me perfectly not to mention the hair, the dog, the friends and Reese Witherspoon in the lead role. It's about a young woman - Elle and her cute chichiuhwa. Elle goes to Law school and is determind to get back her boyfriend, Warner who had dumped her. However he is engaged to another law student and with the help from her friend, she wins him back, but by then she met someone else. Elle Woods certainly knows what she is doing! Just not so dumb a blonde as she first appears! Movie Number 2 is nearly as good, but the first is more fun. BEST MOVIE AND I WATCH IT ALL THE TIME!

a rich blonde girl who shows that blondes can be intelligent and nice too
A highly entertaining film that makes fun of rich blonde women but shows that at least one of them - Reese Witherspoon - is highly intelligent.
I think women will love the fancy clothes and witty one-liner bitchy put-downs in Legally Blonde (all said with style and grace) and men will wish they had a girlfriend who looks this stupid and beautiful but still manages to have an IQ.What impressed me most about the film was that by the end of it I actually cared about the outcome of the trial and whether or not Elle (played by Witherspoon) won her case.The extras section has
some unused scenes and a documentary about the 40 different kinds of blonde hairstyles used and a great music video "Perfect Day" by Hoku.

please no
I don't like this film. please feel sorry for the poor boyfriends and husbands that have been forced to sit though this. This would be my most hated Film, but they made a squel