A Brutally Honest Review Of Legally Blonde As It Turns 25
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From Mamma Mia, welcome to The Spill, your daily pop culture fix.
I'm Laura Brodny. And I'm M. Burnham. And welcome to our brutally honest review of Legally Blonde. Ah! Sing perfect day.
Perfect day. Nothing's standing in my way on this perfect. Do I keep going? And that's the episode. Thanks for joining us. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Swill. We're doing Legally Blonde because it's the 25-year anniversary. Crazy.
Because you might be thinking, but Laura and Em, brutally honest reviews are usually reserved for the biggest new TV shows and movies that have just dropped. And usually we do them a week after release, get everyone time to see it.
And we'd say, you're wrong, you idiot. We can do them whenever we want.
We're a tad late on this one. Fashionably late.
But yes.
25 years. 25 years. I was going to say, were you born when you were five? Oh yeah, I was five.
I was like, no, I'm 20.
I'm not. And also, same. So yes, Legally Blonde hit theaters on July 13th, 2001. Before we get into the actual movie, so we're going to go through. Class of 05. Yeah. So we're going to get into all the behind the scenes, but also we're just going to talk through the movie and probably just have a few laughs.
Yeah. I think we'll end up me just like. Just quoting the movie and bringing no opinion.
And I do look forward to hearing that. But before we get into that, when did you first watch Legally Blonde? Do you remember? I actually can't remember.
Why are we revisiting Legally Blonde on its 25th anniversary?
Wow. But I love movies like that. It's just been in my life the whole time.
I can't remember the first time I watched Clueless, Pretty Woman, The Princess Bride. Like they were just always there.
I think with Legally Blonde for me, because I was very young when it came out. I think I heard the quote. In fact, I think I was like reblogging like Tumblr photos before I watched the movie. Like Reese, like Elle in her bed eating the chocolates and throwing them to the TV and going, liar. Yeah, I was like 13 years old reblogging that.
It was like so true. It's so interesting because we both rewatched the movie this week, even though we've both seen it a thousand times, just like get it back in our heads. And I was like, God, this movie holds up well. It really does. There's a few little issues where I'm like, we're going to have to talk about that.
But apart from that. There's a few like language that we don't use nowadays.
But apart from that, it holds up very, very well. And I just thought it was so interesting that there's only a handful of movies that really I think are in that same league as like still wildly quotable today. And they are a lot of the movies like Clueless, Legally Blonde, Mean Girls, where it's all just some sassy girls having a good time. And those are the movies that stand the test of time.
And I feel like with Legally Blonde and a lot of those movies as well, it was so ahead of its time in terms of themes and things like that, that it only really like, I don't really remember it being like as popular as it is today when it first came out. I remember it just gained traction like for millennials, like well down the line.
Oh, okay, yeah. So it kept having waves of popularity, but it was a huge smash hit when it came out. There's a couple of movies you talk about and then you look back at the box office and you think, oh, no, no, that did poorly, but it built popularity over the time. But Legally Blonde was a runaway success out of the gate. I remember being in like early years high school when it came out, like maybe year eight or something like that. So it was like 12 or something. And I remember it being like such a big deal that this movie was coming out because the hype from it. And you've got to think there wasn't like social and stuff there or like I wasn't watching junkets. I didn't even know like none of that existed to me.
It was just we had seen the trailers. We had seen the posters on like the side of a bus. And my friends and I were like, we're going to that. It was like the place to be on Saturday night, the first weekend it came out.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:43
2
Why are we revisiting Legally Blonde on its 25th anniversary?
1:43–13:01
3
What real-life story and author inspired the book Legally Blonde?
13:01–23:26
4
How did casting choices like Luke Wilson and Selma Blair shape the film?
23:26–30:10
5
Who almost played Elle Woods and how did Reese Witherspoon land the role?
30:10–47:41
6
What early scenes establish Elle Woods as smart, not just stylish?
47:41–55:59
Speakers
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