Legally Blonde

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Amy & Paul overrule all objections to 2001's law school comedy Legally Blonde! They compare the film to the recent ultra-femme smash hit Barbie, discuss how Reese Witherspoon discovered her star power, and wonder why the sequel fell so flat. Plus: some shocking facts about blondes. Next week. Paul and Amy talk Mission: Impossible with the hosts of Light The Fuse! You can join the conversation for this series on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 2001, and you were first runner up of Miss Hawaiian Tropic.
0:07.1	Why would you throw that away for a podcast?
0:09.6	In the movie?
0:10.6	Legally blonde.
0:31.6	Hello everybody, and welcome to Unspooled!
0:36.4	I am Paul Sheer joined as always by Amy Nicholson, and we are going to break it down today about
0:43.1	the Reese Witherspoon classically-gly blonde.
0:45.4	We do this every single week looking at some of the best movies ever made, and really
0:49.9	asking the question, are they that good or do we just remember them that way?
0:56.4	Paul of course is coming at us from the perspective of being a brilliant mind, a filmmaker,
1:01.4	an actor, a writer, a man who makes, let's say, interesting documentaries that are
1:06.9	interesting.
1:07.9	Yes, we'll hopefully, we'll all edit together well, and Amy Nicholson is one of my favorite
1:12.4	voices in cinema, a writer, a podcaster, a radio personality, and I've been loving your
1:20.1	reviews in New York Times.
1:21.7	You actually made me laugh out loud a couple of weeks ago about your review of that film
1:29.7	based on an ancient Chinese legend.
1:33.0	Are you talking about the Monkey King?
1:35.9	Yes, yes.
1:36.9	You actually, your review of the Monkey King really made me laugh out loud when you described
1:42.9	the lack of research that this movie did about this quote-unquote true story they were
1:48.0	telling.
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