Director Savage Steve Holland
Starring Milly Rosso, Becky Rosso, Christopher Cousins
Rated PG
Score 0.5/6
Moving from England to California, the youngest cousins of Elle Woods must defend themselves when their schools reigning forces turn on the girls and try to frame them for a crime.
Legally Blondes is the first of the five movies that will be featured in The Movie Boards’ movie UnFestival and what a way to kick things off with what is regarded to be one of the worst direct-to-DVD spin-offs of all time and if the UnFestival Director has movies that are worse than this install for me.
Its never a good sign as to the quality of a movie when within the first couple of minutes of the movie starting you utter the words ‘this movie is like …’ The ‘…’ was the movie Wild Child (a movie I probably should not admit to watching) which starred Emma Roberts and was released in 2008 one year before Legally Blondes and has vaguely similar plot. Another sign of a movie’s lack of quality is when its director is credited with what turns out to be his childhood nickname, such as the case for Savage Steve Holland.
It seems that Savage Steve mainly known for his TV work and most of the movies that he has directed are either telemovies or direct-to-DVD and Legally Blondes had a strong tv vibe to it. I must assume that judging by the hammy way some of the scenes where shot, the ending which had all the hallmarks of filmmakers trying to leave it open to get a sequel, that Legally Blondes was looked at by the filmmakers as some sort of TV pilot and at some point, there could have been plans for some kind of TV series.
It should be noted that the character of Elle Woods is only mentioned briefly a couple of times throughout the movie but does not have any screen time. There really wasn’t any decent performances and Milly and Becky Rosso’s accents really did get annoying by the time the credits rolled.
I noticed that Netflix has Legally Blondes rated for around 8 to 10 year-olds, I know way older then the target demographic for this movie (according to Netflix) but there is a part of me that thinks even 8 to 10 year-olds might find this movie to be a mess. The only possibly redeeming feature of the whole movie was the love story that developed between the history teacher and the cafeteria lady which had a kind of cute factor to it.