FOREIGN PARTS.(Sweet Home Alabama; The Four Feathers)

Among the many talents of Reese Witherspoon is the ability to hang around in movies that are unworthy of her, and thus to shine all the brighter. Only twice, as far as I can see, has she broken this rule: once in "Twilight," which doesn't count, because she was a kid with a topless scene and a minor role, and again in "Election," which was so much smarter than most of what we watch, so much more ratty in its know-how, that you can just imagine Witherspoon sitting down with her agent and inking in the plan to lure critical opinion into her camp. Then came "Legally Blonde," a wad of cotton candy that was spun around nothing but her, and that, without her wit, at once daffy ...