'Elle' Review: 'Legally Blonde' Prequel Delivers a Polished but Familiar Retread
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Alison Herman
Summary
Amazon Prime Video's 'Elle' is a prequel series to 'Legally Blonde' set in 1995, following a young Elle Woods as a rising junior at Beverly Hills High. While well-executed with strong performances from Lexi Minetree, the series closely mirrors the arc of the original film, making it feel more like a remake than a true prequel. The show captures the familiar beats of Elle's journey but struggles to justify why audiences need to see the same maturation process play out twice.
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Variety'Elle' Review: 'Legally Blonde' Prequel Delivers a Polished but Familiar Retreadvariety.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledThe arc of 'Elle' hews so closely to the trajectory our heroine takes in the original film that it's hard to believe one person underwent the same maturation process twice over
The Amazon Prime Video show 'Elle' is billed as a prequel series to the 2001 novel turned hit movie 'Legally Blonde,' but its eight episodes play more like a remake
Unless she entered Harvard Law with a bad case of amnesia
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