Blonde and Blonder - a Movie Review

Blonde and Blonder is a 2007 direct-to-video comedy starring Denise Richards and Pamela Anderson. Denise and Pamela play Dawn and Dee, two dim-witted blondes who get mistaken for assassins.

I did not have high hopes for this movie. For one I didn't hear any publicity for this movie besides Denise Richards getting in trouble for throwing her laptop at a photographer. And two the movie stars Pamela Anderson. That fact alone is enough to ruin any movie. The movie ended up surprising me. I actually found Blonde and Blonder very funny.

Blonde and Blonder does have some silly plot about Dawn and Dee being mistaken as assassins. I guess the movie did need a plot to move the blonde jokes along because really the movie is just a bunch of blonde jokes. I have always been a fan of blonde jokes. Perhaps that is why I liked the movie. I definitely didn't like the movie because of Pamela Anderson. She was her normally self (no acting ability whatsoever) and looking quite old.

I liked the movie because of the blonde jokes but I still give the movie 2 stars out of 5. What really detracted from the movie was that everyone was dumb. The core funniness of blonde jokes is that blondes are dumb but everyone else is smart. The writers forgot about the fact in this movie. Everyone lacks intelligence in Blonde and Blonder. The two FBI agents, Agent Campbell and Agent Gardenia, are idiots who write juvenile comments about their boss on the bathroom wall. The two mob tagalongs, Swan and Leo, are probably even stupider then Dawn and Dee. The mob boss realizes they are stupid but yet still sends them trailing after Dawn and Dee.

I was also amused by the lack of consistency with Dawn's intelligence throughout the movie. The movie started out with Dawn and Dee being equally stupid but Dawn eventually shows off her somewhat higher intelligence compared to Dee. Dawn after all does understand how a DVD player works. My favorite part is a flashback that shows Dawn getting fired for using whiteout on a computer screen because of all her typing mistakes. I enjoyed watching that classic blonde joke being acted out. But retelling the story to Dee, Dawn said she got fired for typos. Dee then asks what a typo is and Dawn replies I don't know. Really? You were smart enough to use white out but not smart enough to know why you were using white out? Hmmm, perhaps I am analyzing this silly comedy a little too much. Another inconsistent scene is when Dawn is showing off her new pair of "Guess" jeans. Dee asks what kind they are and Dawn says "Guess" so of course Dee guesses five different brands. Dawn actually seems to get irritated by Dee's dumbness and finally gives up. Or perhaps Denise Richards's true feeling were showing through and was irritated that she was even wasting her time in this silly movie.

So in summary, this movie isn't a complete waste of time if you like blonde jokes. If you don't like blonde jokes, run the other way and skip all episodes of Baywatch.