Legally Blonde

I like to occasionally go onto YouTube and use the search terms 'failed television pilots'. A few of them, such as "Lookwell", are classics that SHOULD have been given the green light. Many of them, frankly, suck. Which is the case with "Legally Blonde".

With the success of the film "Legally Blonde" and "Legally Blonde 2" coming out in 2003, it's not too surprising that the networks would consider a weekly television series. Apparently, folks didn't love it and the show never went beyond this pilot episode.

As you'd probably expect, the television version re-cast the characters from the movie...mostly because the stars would have been too expensive and have other commitments. The folks they hired seemed pretty spot on...and I think they got the characterizations.

While I was not bowled over by the show (perhaps because it was much like a condensed version of the first film), it wasn't bad and if it had been approved for the network, I might have watched it. Not bad.

'Legally Blonde' is interesting only for its existence; a failed pilot for a proposed television series. There's not much to note about it really, you can sorta see why the network didn't green light the project; I will say those involved did fit a fair bit in across the 20 minute run time.

Jennifer Hall portrays Elle Woods, a character that feels not much alike her counterpart in the original movies with Reese Witherspoon - weirdly, Hall's Elle reminded me more of Alyson Hannigan's Michelle in 'American Pie'. The awful YouTube quality also made her eyes look creepy, somewhat amusingly.

There is at least not one, but two uses of Vanessa Carlton's 'A Thousand Miles', though the absence of Terry Crews is debilitating. That one scene with Caitlin Mowrey and her character's mother is actually pretty solid, definitely the only part of this now TV movie that stands out.