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Is The World Ready For "Legally Blonde 3"?

"I think we're ready to see Elle and what she's been up to."

Reese Witherspoon is ready to think pink once more and reprise her role as Elle Woods in a new Legally Blonde film.

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The last time we saw Elle was in 2003's Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, which found the Harvard alum successfully passing a bill against animal testing and reunited her beloved dog Bruiser with his mother, all in time for her wedding to Emmett (played by Luke Wilson).

It was great to see Witherspoon back in the role that made us all fall in love with her back when her star was still on the rise. However, the film around her was another story – it's sitting at a 38% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Nevertheless, the actress seemed optimistic about the series' future during her appearance on Fashionably Late With Rachel Zoe, saying, "I think we're ready to see Elle and what she's been up to lately."

Witherspoon also added that revisiting Elle's world would be pretty relevant considering the current conversation concerning women in politics.

"A lot of writers over the years have come up with different ideas for it… I actually think it's kind of great right now because we're talking about women in politics and how important it is to get more women. And I think it'd be kind of a cool thing to have her be a Supreme Court Justice or somebody that runs for office, president."

Despite Witherspoon's enthusiasm, no official plans have been made to set a third film in motion. But is a Legally Blonde TRILOGY something the world needs? Hollywood never seems to know when to stop with franchises, and considering the low note the last film went out on – Sally Field's involvement and Witherspoon's performance aside – do we want to tarnish Elle Woods any further?

What made the first film so special was the way it utilized Witherspoon's natural charisma. Though Elle is introduced as a "blonde," the actress builds her as a character from the ground up, selling the ditzy comedy without sacrificing her intelligence. Witherspoon never lets the audience doubt Elle Woods the way her ex-boyfriend, her peers and even her parents do throughout the film. The second film's clunky, formulaic screenplay didn't allow Witherspoon to shine in the same way as she did the first time around.

Since the sequel, Witherspoon won an Oscar for her dramatic performance in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, but continued to have mixed success with comedic films. Films like Four Christmases, How Do You Know, and This Means War all tanked with critics and did anything but raise her profile as an A-list actress. After landing an Oscar nomination this past January for her work in Wild, Witherspoon once again starred in a comedy, Hot Pursuit, which tanked with both critics and audiences.

So the skepticism over an announcement of another potential sequel isn't totally unwarranted.

However, there have been plenty of worse unnecessary sequels made in the pasts several years with less enjoyable characters than Elle Woods (we're looking at you Grown Ups 2).

Witherspoon can be a great comedic actress when provided with the right material; any naysayer can reference her work in Alexander Payne's Election if they feel Legally Blonde isn't enough evidence of this. Witherspoon is also a savvy producer. She helped get films like Gone Girl and her own Wild off of the ground to find financing and distribution. But before she steps back into the heels of Elle Woods once more, we hope she can help build a solid film around her first.

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