Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)

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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)

In Legally Blonde 2, Elle wants her Chihuahua, Bruiser, to reunite with his mother, because she would like Bruiser's mother to be in attendance at her wedding. The lawyer then hires a detective for the task and she discovers that the company that has her dog's mother is a cosmetics producer that uses the dog for cosmetic testing. She goes to the board of the firm where she works and finds out that they represent that company and refuse to do anything about it. Elle argues that this is unjust and is fired from her law firm.

Elle decides to leave Boston, where she had settled with her fiance, and move to Washington, DC. Elle is so upset that her dog's mother is in a make-up testing laboratory, that she decides to take it upon herself to have a "voice for those who can't speak", in other words, she wants to make animal testing against the law. She then tries to convince Congress to ban all animal testing, but she is met with deaf ears.

While working on the campaign, she is met with skepticism and other elements such as work competition and a very negative environment. One of her new co-workers remarks that she is "Capitol Hill Barbie!", an obvious criticism of Elle's fashion sense (there has even been a Barbie doll based on Elle Woods). As with the first movie, Elle and her dog are mainly dressed in pink, a color that dominates their lives. After an abortive attempt to make herself feel better by having her co-workers write compliments about one another in a "snap cup", she starts to lose her faith in the people in Washington.

As the story moves along, Elle discovers that her dog is actually homosexual, after it was seen "affectionate" with a congressman's Rottweiller. She also finds that the leading congresswoman at the House of Congress used to be a member of her Delta Nu society in school, and they become friends. The congresswoman and the congressman join Elle in her quest to make animal testing unlawful. She also discovers that the congresswoman she is working for (Sally Field's character) is backstabbing her, by carrying out the orders of a character named Bob, who never actually has a physical appearance at the movie, but is a donor to the congresswoman's election fund. She is prevented from voting against Elle's proposition by a co-worker who has a recording of an incriminating phone conversation that Elle's boss had with Bob.

Eventually, Elle gets enough signatures to have the law against animal testing passed. She gets married in a park in DC, albeit not at Fenway Park as she had planned. At the end, when Emmett asks where to live, Elle says she has the perfect place, the White House.

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