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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 39 critic reviews
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Based on 47 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Kate Kondell (also story)
Eve Ahlert (story)
Dennis Drake (story)
Amanda Brown (characters)
Directed by: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 2, 2003
DVD: November 4, 2003
Running Time: 95 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for some sex-related humor
Starring Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field, Bob Newhart, Luke Wilson, Jennifer Coolidge, Regina King, Jessica Cauffiel, and Alanna Ubach
Reese Witherspoon is back as Elle Woods, juggling a demanding career as a rising young lawyer as well as preparations for her wedding to the man of her dreams. (MGM)
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FILM: Legally Blonde
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Premiere Susannah Gora
In this sequel, as Elle uses her good-hearted pluck to work toward her goal, Witherspoon is a sheer delight, all charm and light and loveliness; you just want her to win.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Schickel
We're talking fables, not reality, here, and this is a fine and merry one--"Ms. Woods Goes to Washington"--played to airy perfection by Reese Witherspoon and a light-on-its-feet cast.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
Elle dresses in shades of sorbet and dolls up her Chihuahua like a bantamweight drag queen, but by fighting the good fight she's also giving alpha girls and women their due, rescuing them from the magazine horror stories and the taint of Hillary.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Elle fans will likely ignore the narrative shortcomings in favor of a well-loved character.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Kevin Carr
Has an underlying charm that drags its audience, kicking and screaming to have a good time.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
airily works not only because of Witherspoon and a game supporting cast...but because, with its bark-and-bite agenda wrapped in a blanket of laughs, has the sense to remember that, first and foremost, it's entertainment.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Takes the financially successful formula of "Legally Blonde," the Reese Witherspoon hit from two years ago, and does something unexpected. It fiddles with it, changes it and actually fixes it.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Witherspoon is a professional, demanding we give ourselves over to her carbonated pluck.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
An even sweeter and lighter whipped confection than "Legally Blonde," this hugely enjoyable sequel serves up a generous second helping of the ingredient that made the original such an irresistible hit.
Read Full Review >Variety David Rooney
The script here just doesn't have sufficient smarts to pull off Elle's political triumph. But Witherspoon again makes a valiant show of selling it.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
At once brasher and more frivolous, she's a lot less compelling fighting for the welfare of lab-test animals than she was crusading for her own dignity.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Unlike other current D.C. types, Elle would never misplace or misidentify her own weapons of mass destruction. They're all in her wardrobe closet and makeup kit.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Call it a victory for sincerity and style: Despite its familiarity, Blonde 2 doesn't make you want to pull out your hair by its (touched-up) roots.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
A movie of many stupid pet tricks and one basic joke: As in the original, Elle's intelligence is consistently -- if understandably -- underestimated.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Rick Kisonak
Perkiness Alert! Much of the banter and many of the gags are amusing but Witherspoon cranks the perkiness to off-the-dial levels here and anyone with low tolerance for superpeppy movie do-gooders should consult a physician before viewing.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Both more and less of the same -- more of that hot-pink couture, a whole lot more of that diminutive doggie, less reason to laugh even if you're a tank-topped 16-year-old.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
In the real world, Elle Woods would be chewed up faster than one of little Bruiser's Milk-Bones.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
There's not enough here to sustain a half-hour sitcom, but Reese Witherspoon shoulders the burden with star shine to spare.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
If her adoring public doesn't mind paying for the same movie twice, Legally Blonde 2 stands to leave her star power unquestioned.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Just as a fistful of drooping stalks does not a bouquet make, director Charles Herman-Wurmfeld's random collection of think-pink gags, canine couture and smart/dumb blonde jokes does not a comedy make.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Charles Taylor
Legally Blonde was content to tickle you. The new one is something akin to a band that has a surprisingly successful debut deciding to rerecord all their originals and release a "Greatest Hits" collection for their second CD. It's both familiar and off.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Director Charles Herman-Wurmfeld ("Kissing Jessica Stein") misses several opportunities to go all out and be, as Elle would say, "superfun."
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
I realize Legally Blonde 2 was not intended as scathing political satire, but I wish someone out there in movieland did indeed have just such an intention these days.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
Though there are some funny moments, little in "Red, White and Blonde" is enjoyable.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
A movie for people who somehow managed to miss the point of the first picture.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
Midway through, theres a truly riotous set-piece involving Bruisers gay love affair with a Great Dane, but not even a Chihuahua in leather bondage gear can zest up a franchise that has degraded from sleeper to snoozer.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Like the first movie, this has some cute gags but collapses like a soggy paper plate because it can't decide whether to mock or celebrate the heroine's shallow materialism.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
When Elle Woods watches "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" for inspiration in the middle of Legally Blonde 2, you have to admire the nerve of the people who made this comedy: "Smith" is to LB2 what jumbo jets are to ultralight gliders. But nerve is all they've got.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
The first one was silly fun, amusing and oddly inventive; the second is plodding, unfunny and almost cringe-worthy.
Read Full Review >New York Post Megan Lehmann
It's so gosh-darned darling it almost turns your stomach.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
As adroit and charming as Witherspoon is--and she gives it her all--she cannot rise above the embarrassingly broad, witless material.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
"Legally Blonde" was a splashy, wide-screen near musical, a movie made in the spirit of Elle Woods herself. Legally Blonde 2 is Elle Woods' eulogy.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Teresa Wiltz
Flops where it should zing, trotting out cringe-worthy cliches and hoary plot contrivances and depicting femininity through a drag queen's funhouse mirror.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
No one is more blameworthy than Witherspoon...With her newfound clout and charm, she could make better films; instead, she strolls up to the audience standing in line at the ATM and demands we fork it over or else.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Not since Rocky II has there been a more blatant attempt to recapitulate a box-office hit without adding any new attraction or appeal.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
A perfectly funny idea -- call it "Ms. Ditz Goes to Washington" -- that's never allowed to take on real comic life. I laughed exactly once.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
It is a cinematic abomination -- a source of embarrassment for everyone involved.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
One of the strongest arguments yet for making sequels illegal.
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.5 (out of 10) based on 47 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Adam G. gave it a0:
Literally the worst film I have ever seen, contrived artless rubbish.
Eliza B. gave it a4:
It wasn't the best but it was pretty funny. i think it's movies for little hilary-duff-wannabes.... aka... POSERS. it gets boring after tho.... i mean, seriously that movie is really weird... but not as boring as hulk. that's for sure.
Kapik gave it a0:
Seriously the worst movie I've ever seen.
Reese W. gave it a10:
I loved it! Its was truly inspiring.
Faith W. gave it a 10:
I love this movie! ... and of course my fave part was the snap cup song... i practically memorized the whole song!
Jen L. gave it a 3:
What channels were used by elles woods when she spoke?
Cameron S. gave it a 4:
On your marks, get set, CRINGE! Oh God, if only congress was that easy. This painful dreck does have one funny scene, and to save anybody bothering to read this the time, "YOUR DOGS ARE GAY."
