Based on all the media-hewn backslapping over Reese Witherspoon's first shot
Instead this weak and predictable comedy, by debut feature director
Robert Luketic, is a poorly lit attempt at dredging humor from a sterile and flat script. 
While Reese Witherspoon makes an attractive ditzy blonde with enough
book-smarts to overcompensate for her character's fashion victim obsessions, her talents are dissipated in a movie that chases its own tail. 
Following
Witherspoon's cruelly good performances in movies like "Freeway" and "Election," "Legally Blonde" is a career misstep for a talented actress capable of creating much more complex characters.Rated PG-13. 97 mins.
