Legally Blondes
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Legally Blondes | |
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Directed by | Savage Steve Holland |
Written by | Chad Gomez Creasey Dara Resnik Creasey |
Based on | Characters by Amanda Brown |
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Cinematography | William D. Barber |
Edited by | Cindy Parisotto Anthony Markward |
Music by | John Coda |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (MGM Home Entertainment) |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Legally Blondes is a 2009 American comedy film. It is a spin-off of the Legally Blonde film series.[1] It was directed by Savage Steve Holland and co-produced by Reese Witherspoon, who played Elle Woods in the first two films. The film stars Camilla and Rebecca Rosso as Elle's British twin cousins.
The film was released on DVD on April 28, 2009, and aired on ABC Family and Disney Channel. It received positive reviews.[2][3]
Plot
Starting in the United Kingdom, Isabelle "Izzy" (Rebecca Rosso) and Annabelle "Annie" Woods (Camilla Rosso) are introduced as clever twin girls with a love for pink like their cousin, Elle Woods. They and their widowed father move to Southern California to stay in Elle's home; Elle is now a successful lobbyist in Washington, D.C. Awaiting the girls are a pair of chihuahua dogs, who are the nephews of Elle's chihuahua Bruiser. Their giddiness is cut short, however, when they find out they are going to attend Pacific Preparatory, Elle's alma mater, a private school requiring uniforms.
Upon their first day, after meeting the strict Headmistress Elsa Higgins (Lisa Banes), who introduces them to Pac Prep's many rules and extensively detailed honor code, Izzy and Annie register themselves and sign for their ID cards, and meet Chris (Bobby Campo), a scholarship student who is almost immediately smitten with Annie. They also start off on the wrong foot with Tiffany Donohugh (Brittany Curran), the spoiled daughter of a primary funder of "Pac Prep."
Tiffany later apologizes for her rude behavior and befriends the twins, although she does it merely to "keep her enemies close". Annie and Izzy believe Tiffany to be a sweet person, though she dislikes classmates on scholarship. However, her true colors come out when she embarrasses Annie and Izzy at a formal dance, revealing that they are on partial scholarship at the school.
Izzy and Annie rekindle their friendships with the other scholarship students, including Chris. Izzy wants to help Chris get closer to Annie, but in several instances, Annie believes Chris to like Izzy. The twins and their friends believe the uniforms are stifling their creativity and they re-style their clothing while still cleverly abiding by the school's rules.
Chris and Izzy are later accused of cheating on a big history test and they all set out to prove the school wrong. Izzy and Annie suspect Tiffany and Justin (Chad Broskey) are behind this and find that Chris and Tiffany have the same backpack that comes with a lock and key; in Chris's locked zipper pocket, he keeps a master-key that opens all doors in the school (and was found broken off in the lock their history teacher's office), for his work-studies to help pay off his scholarship. They discover that the keys and locks for the backpacks are the same, any key will open any lock. On the floor of the teacher's private office, where the answer key to the test is kept, they discover red markings that match the marks that Justin's expensive shoes create. They conclude that Tiffany told Justin the uber code to access the answers to the test from their teacher's computer.
With this new piece of information, Annie and Izzy set to prove Chris and Izzy's innocence. In student court, Annie poses as Izzy when she is locked in the bathroom by Justin, and defeats her fear of public speaking. Even as Izzy escapes and returns to the court, Annie points out that Justin owns a new cell phone, one that has not yet been released to the public, and could only have been gotten from one person: the daughter of the creator of both the phone and the uber code, Tiffany Donohugh. Justin, who is irritated by noises such as pencils being sharpened and pen clicks, struggles to hold himself together as the supporters of the twins and Chris click their pens. He finally admits to framing Chris and Izzy on Tiffany's behalf and Tiffany, upon chewing him out for letting "a blonde make (him) crack", admits to masterminding the whole plot, though she protests that she cannot be punished since her father is a major founder and continuous donor of the school. Despite this, Headmistress Higgins expels them both for their attempt to frame their classmates for theft and cheating, and their numerous violations of the Pac Prep honor code in the process.
At the end of the movie, Annie and Chris dance together at a school dance and Izzy does the same with Brad (Christoph Sanders) (a secret scholarship student who assisted the twins in student court by ringing Justin's phone). The twins and their friends have now become popular at Pac Prep. As for Tiffany and Justin, they wind up facing the consequences for their actions as they are apparently cut off from their wealth as punishment from their parents for their crimes and for shaming their families (who founded and donated to the school), and are seen boarding a rowdy student-filled bus and being whisked off to public school, much to their horror.
Cast
- Camilla Rosso as Annabelle "Annie" Woods
- Rebecca Rosso as Isabelle "Izzy" Woods
- Lisa Banes as Headmistress Elsa Higgins
- Christopher Cousins as Mr. Richard Woods
- Brittany Curran as Tiffany Donohugh
- Curtis Armstrong as Mr. Gary Golden
- Rose Abdoo as Sylvia
- Bobby Campo as Christopher Lopez
- Chad Broskey as Justin Whitley
- Chloe Bridges as Ashley Meadows
- Amy Hill as Ms. Chang
- Kunal Sharma as Vivek
- John Michael McPhail-Doherty as Angry Bike Messenger
- Christoph Sanders as Brad Wellington
- Tanya Chisholm as Marcie
- Teo Olivares as Rainbow
Reception
It was received good reviews.In cinemablend, the movie earned 3 stars on 5 and received good review.[4] In Dogo movie, the film received good review.[5]
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has only 2 reviews, both negative.[6]
References
External links
- 2009 films
- 2009 direct-to-video films
- 2000s high school films
- 2000s teen comedy films
- American direct-to-video films
- American films
- American high school films
- American sequel films
- American teen comedy films
- Direct-to-video comedy films
- Direct-to-video sequel films
- English-language films
- Films about twin sisters
- Films directed by Savage Steve Holland
- Films produced by Marc E. Platt
- Films produced by Reese Witherspoon
- Films set in California
- Films shot in Arizona
- Films shot in England
- Films shot in Los Angeles
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer direct-to-video films
- 2009 comedy films