Legally Blonde revival Elle - boring and tedious or a hot pink delight?

Legally Blonde revival Elle - boring and tedious or a hot pink delight?Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Lexi Minetree (left) portrays a young Elle Woods, while the original actress Reese Witherspoon serves as an exec producerByTiffany WertheimerPublished1 minute agoAmazon Prime has taken on the daunting task of reviving a much-beloved noughties rom-com. What, like it's hard? Well, apparently it is.The reviews are in for Elle, a TV spin-off of the cult classic Legally Blonde - and most of them are brutal.The Wrap slammed it as "boring and tedious", the Radio Times said it "should be illegal", and the Independent declared young people deserve better than the "slop" of "warmed-over revivals". Not all critics were so damning, however - the New York Post celebrated Elle as a "sparkling good time" and NME, in a four-star review, calls it a "hot pink delight".Set in 1995, the eight-episode first season stars newcomer Lexi Minetree as Elle Woods, a high-school junior.When her family is forced to flee the blue skies of California for the grey clouds of Seattle after her plastic surgeon father botches a celebrity's nose job, Elle finds herself in a very different environment as she tries to navigate high school, friendships and romances.With its neo-feminist message that you can be girly and kind but also shrewd and smart, the original Legally Blonde film was such a cultural reckoning that many of its iconic moments (bend and snap, I'm looking at you) are still referenced today.The movie catapulted Reese Witherspoon into the Hollywood A-list crowd, and, while she doesn't star in the revival, she is an executive producer.'Half-baked'While the idea of pretty-in-pink Elle Woods being thrown into the grunge of 90s Seattle is "cute on paper", in reality it feels "thin and forced", wrote the Wrap's Marah Eakin, external. Legally Blonde was "fun, fresh and...