Legally Blonde Reviews

Slick, sexy, and charming, this romantic comedy should catapult the gifted Reese Witherspoon to major movie stardom

Full Review | Original Score: B

Bombshell discovers her brainy side in fun romp for teens+.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

"Legally Blonde" is a career misstep for a talented actress capable of creating much more complex characters.

Full Review | Original Score: C

An agreeable trifle, a fairy-tale piece of fluff that is nevertheless fun and funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

...consistently entertaining and enjoyable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Silly comic fluff with as much substance as a scented resume printed on pink paper. But this movie is deliciously funny.

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With Witherspoon donning 40 different hairstyles for her role as the pouty and perky Elle, Legally Blonde is a ditsy and Day-Glo treat.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

This is a modern day Capra movie, which means you might be embarrassed to tell your friends you went to see it, but you left the theater with a big smile on your face.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Mrs. Witherspoon is cast well below her considerable talents as an airhead Bel Air brat who has it all.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5

Witherspoon deserves better than this.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Comes up just short of making a winning case.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Witherspoon again skillfully plays against her looks. And, as the movie repeatedly points out, that's hard to do when you're blonde.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Soak in Witherspoon's pleasing performance and the good-natured comedy and have a good time.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Witherspoon makes Elle such an engaging, effervescent personality you can't take your eyes off of her.

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Legally Blonde es sólo una comedia inocua que puede hacernos una tarde dominguera más amena pero nada más.

| Original Score: 6/10

Witherspoon quase nos faz ignorar o absurdo da situação proposta pelo roteiro.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

You have to appreciate a movie whose title essentially sums up the whole thing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Se puede ver si se toma como la típica película dominguera para pasar un rato sentado en la oscuridad de una sala de cine, pero no ofrece nada más.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

...Misses a plum opportunity to be the post-Marilyn blonde movie...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

...a modern fairy-tale fantasy about clichéd images and, better, a film that never takes itself, its characters, or its messages too seriously.

| Original Score: 7/10