The Movie: If I had to summarize Legally Blonde with one word, I'd have to use the word "pink". Everything in this movie is pink. The attitude of this movie can be described as pink. Elle Woods' (played by the ever cute Reese Witherspoon) favorite color? Pink!

Elle Woods is a ditzy blonde college senior whose seemingly perfect boyfriend is going to Harvard Law School. On the night Elle thought he was going to propose to her, the self-centered prick ends up dumping her, saying that he needs to marry someone more "serious" to get his political career off the ground. In a pathetic move to get him back, Elle applies for (and gets accepted to) Harvard Law, to show her ex just how serious she can be.

Much hilarity ensues as we see the juxtaposition of this California spoiled rich girl in the stiff, academic environment of Harvard, but in the end she finds her true self and proves to herself and everyone else that she's so much more than just a pretty blonde girl with perfect fashion sense.

This movie is a bit too over the top to be considered cute, and most of the humor is barely an intellectual notch above your typical toilet humor, but I have to admit that there were a number of very funny lines in this movie. Though the beginning is full of a bunch of fit young women, it got a bit tedious as it depicted what went on in a sorority house full of people like Elle Woods. But once she actually made her way into Harvard, this movie surprised me with just how entertained I was by it.

If you got a few minutes to kill and aren't looking for a whole lot of intellectual stimulation, Legally Blonde is actually not a bad way to spend that time. Really!

The DVD: This is a dual sided disc with the movie on one side, and special features on the other. On the movie side, you can choose between a 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen version and a 4:3 pan and scan version created using the Super-35 method. Both transfers feature decent color, but both exhibit a slight lack of clarity and noticeable gradient stepping throughout most of the movie.

The audio is heavily dialog driven, and as such has a surround mix that except in the sections with music, is almost completely in mono out of the center channel.

There are a number of special features, starting with those on the movie side of the disc which include two separate audio commentary tracks, a "trivia" track (all of these play along with the movie and are on the movie side of the disc). The reverse side of the disc contains two featurettes on the film, a music video, a fully produced anamorphic widescreen trailer, a trailer for the Princess Bride special edition DVD, and a collection of deleted scenes with video introductions to each one by the director. The deleted scenes section also included the handy-dandy "play all" option, and I wish all DVD's with a large number of deleted scenes had this.

All in all, I'd say it was a pretty average DVD release as far as video and audio quality go, but with a nice big dose of special features. Ah, and the menus match the movie perfectly, what with being pink and all.