i enjoyed this film, but it was so predictable that it was boring to watch sometimes. the plot also seemed too ridiculous. WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE ABOUT PINK?! (i hate pink)

I am probably not the intended audience for this movie, but I had heard that it was above average for a Hollywood comedy, and I had been really impressed with Reese Witherspoon in 'Election' and especially 'Freeway.'

If this works at all the credit is due to Ms. Witherspoon, because the script is strictly pedestrian - a tower of cliches built on a standard fish-out-of-water frame, with not one surprise or transcendent moment built in. Which is not to say that I'm against mindless fluff - if you can do it well. What bothers me is Hollywood's (possibly correct, god help us) assumption that audiences actually WANT complete predictability.

On the plus side, they didn't overdo the uplift. (It's a real drag when a "light" entertainment feels obligated to engage your emotions in the last reel - expecting you to suddenly take the movie more seriously than it has been taking itself, and usually resorting to the cheapest tactics available.) And I will say that I never really found this obnoxious - but, again, that's because it never makes the mistake of taking itself seriously, and because they had the one actor who could make this work as well as it ever could.

Is it funny? I chuckled a couple of times - but not very hard.

I didn't really despise it, like "Pretty Woman."

I probably should have given an extra star just because I know this will work better for most people than it did for me - but, on second thought, why should I? "Legally Blond" probably gets a lot of slack because the competition is so truly dismal. So, yes, it is above average - but that doesn't really make it good.