{"id":666362,"date":"2026-06-30T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666362\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:38:09","slug":"elle-is-the-legally-blonde-revival-boring-and-tedious-or-a-hot-pink-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666362\/","title":{"rendered":"Elle: Is the Legally Blonde revival ‘boring and tedious’ or a ‘hot pink delight’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his two-star review, Seale took particular aim at the screenwriting, pointing out that while there are moments of “peppy fun”, the scripts seem to be “deliberately half-baked, as if the show isn’t expecting your full attention”. <\/p>\n

And maybe that’s true – it’s been widely reported<\/a> that writers these days are doing so-called “second-screen writing” – effectively dumbing down plots so that viewers can still follow along, while simultaneously scrolling on their phones.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean that comedy should suffer, with Seale saying that every time a scene could deliver a “killer gag”, instead it was just “gently amusing”.<\/p>\n

“There are just so many moments here that could sing, yet they barely murmur,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

It is as if the show isn’t even trying to be funny, said Indie Wire’s Ben Travers, external<\/a>, because there aren’t many jokes in the show, and the ones that are there are “too tepid”. <\/p>\n

Travers also criticised the plot for focusing on “tired teen drama, a pathetic love triangle and a lazy mystery”.<\/p>\n

The Independent’s Adam White pointed out, external<\/a> that Legally Blonde 3 has been stuck in “development hell” since 2018, so Elle is a “quick fix” that will inevitably make money.<\/p>\n

But it is “curiously unfunny” and will “likely leave many watching unsatisfied”, he said.<\/p>\n

Yes, there are love triangles, “mean teens” and scandals, he said, but the show is missing the “sheer sharpness of the movie”, making it “an unusually sluggish teen drama”.<\/p>\n

All in all? Young people deserve better than “warmed-over revivals missing all of the pep, colour and dazzle of their predecessors”, he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his two-star review, Seale took particular aim at the screenwriting, pointing out that while there are moments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-666362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}