If you think of Elle Woods as a singular (albeit fictional) individual existing within a singular (albeit fictional) continuity, Amazon’s new Legally Blonde prequel defies all narrative logic.
The entire premise of the earlier film was that this California girl arrives at Harvard oblivious to life beyond boys, clothes and sorority sisterhood; Elle’s reveal that she’d previously spent her teen years amid the grunge rockers and activists of Seattle is a character inconsistency so gaping it’d require a Days of Our Lives-level bout of amnesia to fill it.
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The Bottom Line
A for effort, B minus for execution.
