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Ellen Goodman is a syndicated columnist for The Boston Globe ([email protected]).
Snaps to the little girl leaving "Legally Blonde 2" three steps behind me. There I was, trying to figure out what happened to the original fizz, when she said to her mom: "Don't you think she was dumber in this movie?"
YESSS. And a middle-schooler shall lead us.
As a blonde by nature and nurture, I kind of liked the first Reese Witherspoon comedy about the sorority shopaholic dumped by a preppy boyfriend who told her, "If I'm going to be a senator by the time I'm 30, I need to marry a Jackie not a Marilyn."
She went on to challenge the dumb stereotype, to ace Harvard Law School and free her client while remaining true to her roots in every sense of the word. Despite her mom's warning that law school was for ugly girls, she found her blond ambition. Girls who just wanna have fun can make Law Review. It's possible to do hair and torts.
But the sequel is a retreat-quel. The dumbing back down of Elle Woods. She goes to Washington to make the world safer for dogs who are being used to test cosmetics, saying, "I...