#legally blonde 2 : red

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LEGALLY BLONDE: Elle + Emmett + moments

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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

Book title

Animal Liberation (1975) by Peter Singer

Living in Harmony with Animals (2000) by Carla Bennett

Constitution, Jefferson’s Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives

Food Drug and Cosmetic Act: A Practical Guide to Law & Regulation

Animal Testing Question: Alternatives & Analyses

History of the FDA 

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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) dir. Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

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legally blonde 2: red, white & blonde (2003)

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Blonde girls in film

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“It makes me want a hot dog real bad”

The girls’ on the livestream reaction to the new surprise song dress 😂

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LEGALLY BLONDE 2: RED WHITE & BLONDE released in theaters 21 years ago today.

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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld  

Book title: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About How to Pass a Bill, But Were Afraid to Ask by Tom Altobello

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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2004)

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Just as warm and endearing as the first one! Elle brings such a sense of whimsy I can only hope to emulate in my own life. Positive, optimistic, and tenacious, it is easy to fall in love with her.

Bruiser’s lore was also such a delight to be told. He is integral to Elle’s pack - his happiness is her happiness. Plus, a gay dog who teams up with his adoptive mother is working to save his birth mother? Yes, I’m seated and watching with stars in my eyes.

Long live the sisterhood! XOXO

Watch this if:

you’re on a 2000’s girly, romantic comedy binge

Elle Woods is your patron saint

Similar Titles:

Miss Congeniality 1&2 (Sandy B plays a hot cop, the sequel also involves animal activism)

The House Bunny (2008) (Anna Farris made me wish I joined a sorority)

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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde is the Anti-Matter Universe version of Legally Blonde. The story follows the same broad strokes with the same characters - it's practically the same movie, down to that one bad cringey comedic scene in the middle - except this time, none of it works. At all.

Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) is now engaged to Emmett (Luke Wilson). To have the perfect wedding, she wants her chihuahua’s mother to attend. Unfortunately, the dog’s mother is owned by a cosmetic company that uses her to test products. Having found a new calling, Elle leaves Boston and goes to Washington, D.C. to work on a bill that will outlaw animal testing in the United States.

Two things made Legally Blonde an unexpected treat: Reese Witherspoon’s portrayal of Elle and the way the character was written. As before, Witherspoon is terrific in the role. She fully commits and is so bubbly you instantly fall for her. You side with Elle right away, even if the incident that’s prompting her crusade for animal rights is pretty stupid. Witherspoon's charms count for a lot but not enough, not when the screenplay by Kate Kondell is this awful.

Now that Elle Woods has graduated college and moved onto the big leagues, her brain has shriveled. It’s that scene where she walks into class with nothing but a pink, heart-shaped notebook and a fuzzy pen all over again. You’d think the years of studying and school would’ve trained her for the real world, but no. Over and over, she proves herself who everyone thinks she is: clueless, totally out of place and unfit to perform the task at hand. I feel so sorry for any young girls (or boys, I suppose) who saw "Legally Blonde", admired Elle's ability to be both a capable lawyer and a woman who dressed fashionably, became inspired and then went to see this follow-up. Why such a drastic change? Because of Amanda Brown, or rather, the lack of. The first movie was based on her experience studying at Arizona State University. It was both funny and although exaggerated, had just enough basis in truth to be relatable. Red, White & Blonde is science fiction.

Even if you’ve never been interested in politics, you can tell all of this is plastic. The Congressmen who pose an obstacle to “Bruiser’s Bill” are just a single conversation from doing a complete personality 180. The villains are either never adequately addressed or taken down with such ease you’ll roll your eyes.

Another layer of artificiality hangs over the entire movie: the plot itself. Not the wedding; Elle’s quest to abolish animal testing. In the real world, that stuff still happens so what does it matter if she succeeds on the screen? It’s a pointless victory. Even if you ignore the dated and embarrassing gay stereotypes (let’s be fair to the movie, as it was released 12 years before same-sex marriages were allowed in the U.S.), you won’t be able to dismiss a cheerleading scene so misguided it makes you want to die or the fact that the stakes are just too high for Elle to lose. I mean, is anyone wondering whether the film will end with Bruiser's mother still getting cruelly used in a lab with all the pink and the gags surrounding that colour?

Though Luke Wilson only makes a brief appearance, most of the other characters you liked before (such as Jennifer Coolidge’s Paulette) return. Notably absent is Selma Blair’s Vivian, who has been rebooted as Grace (Regina King). More attention is given to the legal case and less to the romance, which makes it a poor man’s version of the original movie or a gender-swapped even poorer version of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Legally Blonde 2 is a profoundly disappointing follow-up. We're talking Bridget Jones' Diary 2 kind of letdown. The conclusion hints at a sequel which you’re unlikely to have any kind of appetite for but I’m sure if it ever happens it’ll be better than the next actual chapter in the series, Legally Blondes. (June 26, 2020)

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The exterior of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (San Marino, CA) in Charles Herman-Wurmfeld's Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003). (Identified in the film as a park in Washington, D.C.)