Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde Critic Reviews

Elle fans will likely ignore the narrative shortcomings in favor of a well-loved character.Read the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

Witherspoon is a professional, demanding we give ourselves over to her carbonated pluck. Read the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

In the real world, Elle Woods would be chewed up faster than one of little Bruiser's Milk-Bones. Read the full review

If her adoring public doesn't mind paying for the same movie twice, Legally Blonde 2 stands to leave her star power unquestioned. Read the full review

There's not enough here to sustain a half-hour sitcom, but Reese Witherspoon shoulders the burden with star shine to spare. Read the full review