Pumpkin
In the first Legally Blonde film a ditzy and (obviously) blonde sorority chick went to law school. In the second she went to Washington to ban animal testing. Here in Pumpkin , the unofficial third Blonde film, Christina Ricci takes over from Reese Witherspoon and plays a ditzy and obviously blonde sorority chick who, um, falls in love with a retard.
Does this film actually have a point? It uses the word ‘retard' constantly in what I assume is an attempt to elicit laughs, but is it actually saying something positive about treating ‘special' people the same as everyone else? Is it cheering Ricci's character for falling in love with a mentally challenged person, or really just ridiculing it and her bimbo stereotype for laughs? These aren't rhetorical questions but I have no idea what the answers are.
Pumpkin has got to be one of the outright strangest films I have seen, outside of John Waters' stable. I think it was meant to be a subversive and subtle black comedy, but the whole thing is too uncomfortable to actually laugh at. If it's meant to be an uplifting film you certainly can't take it seriously. However it is intriguing, and bizarre enough to be more than a little interesting. In short the kind of film you would expect the beautifully strange Ricci to appear in.