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

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

Writers (WGA):

Amanda Brown (characters)
Eve Ahlert (story) ...

Release Date:

2 July 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

This summer. . . justice is blonde.

Plot:

Elle Woods heads to Washington D.C. to join the staff of a congresswoman in order to pass a bill to ban animal testing.

Plot Keywords:

Washington D.C. | Animal Rights | Doorman | Congresswoman | Punctuation In Title

Awards:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Reese Witherspoon	...	Elle Woods
Sally Field	...	Rep. Victoria Rudd
Regina King	...	Grace Rossiter
Jennifer Coolidge	...	Paulette
Bruce McGill	...	Stanford Marks
Dana Ivey	...	Congresswoman Libby Hauser
Mary Lynn Rajskub	...	Reena Giuliani
Jessica Cauffiel	...	Margot
Alanna Ubach	...	Serena McGuire
J Barton	...	Timothy McGinn
Stanley Anderson	...	Michael Blaine
Bruce Thomas	...	UPS Guy
Bob Newhart	...	Sid Post
Luke Wilson	...	Emmett Richmond
Ruth Williamson	...	Madeline Kroft

Also Known As:

Legally Blonde 2 (USA) (working title)
Legally Blonde 2: Bigger, Bolder & Blonder (UK) (trailer title)
Legalmente rubia 2 (Argentina) (video title) (Venezuela) [es]
Natürlich blond 2 (Austria) (Germany) [de]
Blonde et légale 2: Rouge, blanc et blonde (Canada: French title) [fr]
Blondin kosto 2 (Finland) [fi]
Blondinens hævn 2 (Denmark) [da]
Blondinka s Harvarda 2 (Slovenia) [sl]
Bu nasil sarisin 2 (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Cutie Blonde 2: Happy Max (Japan: English title) [en]
Doktor szöszi 2. (Hungary) [hu]
I ekdikisi tis xanthias (Greece) [el]
La blonde contre-attaque (France) [fr]
Legalmente Loira 2 (Brazil) [pt]
Legalna blondynka 2 (Poland) [pl]
Natürlich blond 2: Jetzt wird's richtig blond (Germany) [de]
Una bionda in carriera (Italy) [it]
Una rubia muy legal 2 (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some sex-related humor.

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Brazil:Livre | Canada:G (British Columbia/Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Iceland:L | Malaysia:U | Finland:K-3 | New Zealand:PG | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Denmark:A | Germany:o.Al. | Ireland:12 | Norway:A | Philippines:G | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:12 (canton of the Grisons) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | USA:PG-13 (certificate #39762)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

During the opening scene, while looking at the scrapbook, one of the girls points to a photo of Elle with Congresswoman Rudd (Sally Field). She says, "Those are two kick-ass women. I like them, I really like them", a reference to Sally Field's acceptance speech at the 1985 Oscars.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the hearing for Bruiser's Bill, Elle puts Bruiser in his bag on the table beside her. You can hear her say "my best friend" but as there's a cut to a close-up of Bruiser, you can see Elle's lips in the right hand corner, forming the words "my best friend" silently.

Quotes:

Stanford Marks: You're the girl with the perfumed poo-poo bags, aren't you?
Elle: Actually I'm the woman with the scented waste receptacles, but yes

Movie Connections:

References When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

Soundtrack:

Power to the People

Fairly enjoyable, as a cartoon brought to life with real actors.

There can be little doubt, this movie is an inferior follow-up to Legally Blonde. Too many characters are recycled and made to look cute, but it doesn't work as well as when it was fresh. Still, Reese Witherspoon has created in 'Elle Woods' a character that is just fun to watch. She never stays down long, always picking herself up with a fresh approach until she achieves her goal. I look at it like a 'Roadrunner' cartoon, but with real people. It is silly and implausible, but funny. In this case the 'bad guys' are the US Congress in a parody of it's habit of making backroom deals and taking care of supporters to guarantee reelection, even if nothing is done to help constituents. Elle Woods finds that animals are used to test cosmetics, and her quest is to get a law passed that will make it illegal. Nothing more than cute, funny fluff.