All that said… Legally Blonde is obvious, simplistic and silly… and a hell of a lot of fun.  Reese Witherspoon is, on a certain level, playing against type.  If you read the screenplay about the Hawaiian Tropic girl turned legal student, she would not be the first name to come to mind.  (Jennifer Love Hewitt could have made a real movie career out of a role like this and Denise Richards, if she had been able to play the sweetness, could have had a career revival.)  Every time there is a line about Ms. Witherspoon’s character’s “big boobs” or head turning looks, this writer, as sexy as he finds R.W., had to shake his head.  Cute and charismatic, yes.  Drool inducing, no.