Legally Blonde: The Musical
Every time Legally Blonde comes out with something new, I'm extremely wary of it. When the movie first came out I refused to see it because it looked like some of the crappiest crap Hollywood had released at the time. It wasn't until my mom rented it on DVD that I discovered how amazing and, surprisingly, how feminist it is. What looked like Pink (yes, the capital is needed) fluffiness was actually hiding a very empowering story of a woman who vowed to make something of herself when everyone was telling her it was impossible.
Okay, I'll admit I should have been more wary of the sequel to the movie (considering it came out before Elle was supposed to have graduated). It was all right, but not nearly as awesome as the first.
And then comes along Legally Blonde...the musical. I heard about it and was drawn to it like a train wreck. How on earth do you turn the movie into a good musical? Well, I heard the number So Much Better, as I'm singing it in a show I'm currently doing, and was instantly hooked. It's catchy, it's upbeat, it perfectly embodies everything that the movie was.
And then this weekend I saw it on MTV.
As far as musicals go, it's better than a lot of them. The music is almost uniformly catchy, though sometimes you get the feeling that they put in a song just because they needed to fill time (Ireland? Really?). However, it takes out 98% of the feminist elements of the film :-(
( And now cut for spoilers )
Okay, I'll admit I should have been more wary of the sequel to the movie (considering it came out before Elle was supposed to have graduated). It was all right, but not nearly as awesome as the first.
And then comes along Legally Blonde...the musical. I heard about it and was drawn to it like a train wreck. How on earth do you turn the movie into a good musical? Well, I heard the number So Much Better, as I'm singing it in a show I'm currently doing, and was instantly hooked. It's catchy, it's upbeat, it perfectly embodies everything that the movie was.
And then this weekend I saw it on MTV.
As far as musicals go, it's better than a lot of them. The music is almost uniformly catchy, though sometimes you get the feeling that they put in a song just because they needed to fill time (Ireland? Really?). However, it takes out 98% of the feminist elements of the film :-(
( And now cut for spoilers )
