Reese plays Elle Woods, proper LA fashion bunny and neighbour of Aaron Spelling (and if you don't know who Spelling is, move on), who gets dumped by her ?ber-ambitious Harvard-bound boyfriend because he needs 'a Jackie, not a Marilyn'. Does Elle throw a wobbly? No, she moves out East, bones up on matters legal and signs on for the same course as her sappy ex. Now, in the real world, this is when the boyfriend gets a restraining order. But this is Hollywood, so instead he skulks around with new girlfriend Selma Blair (watch this face) while pink-swathed Elle becomes an unlikely success, easily outdoing her staid old-money adversaries, until the inevitable and, well, let's be charitable and call them 'imaginative', final scenes in a court room. Very My Cousin Vinnie. Which is appropriate since Witherspoon, like Marisa Tomei, is a high-class comedy actress. Only it looks like Witherspoon is going to go all the way.