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The Devil Wears Prada received a lot of praise when it first came out. The movie was enjoyable and bubbly even though it was still the era of mid-budget cinema that was primarily made for an older audience.
It celebrated style and had some criminal, entertaining one-liners, which was better than the text it was based on, a imperial a melody by author Lauren Weisberger, a previous aide to Anna Wintour at Vogue.
It earned a lot of money, received two Oscar nominations ( one for Meryl Streep’s unremarkable performance, and one for Patricia Field’s costume design ), but it’s really been its reswatchability over the past 20 years that made it so popular.
It was also helpful that Wintour’s reputation has just grown and that she and the film’s wealth have pushed each other to symbol status.
Any of The Devil Wears Prada’s defects were overshadowed by the memories of the film, its beautiful imagery, and the thoughts it evoked of a proto-girlboss and glossy publications time as the years passed. You were aware that it wasn’t a flawless movie, but you simply didn’t treatment.
The movie has the double-edged weapon of both the already-existent benevolence and high expectations, but perhaps one of them cancels the additional out.
Is The Devil Wears Prada 2 a respectable sequel? Both yes and no
Yes, it definitely kills it and is able to give a personality that belongs to that ice queen archetype but little pathos and depth, some of the fashions are fantastic, Anne Hathaway’s Andy also looks so hurt at the thought of unsatisfactory Miranda, and many other well-known beats.
No, the film feels much longer than its two-hour runtime, that despite the higher stakes, it somehow feels light because its primary conflicts may get easily resolved, there is too much distracting lover service and too many cameos, and it usually feels unimportant.
It’s a actual combined bag, but one that shouldn’t lead to effusive praise or violent antagonism. In a word, The Devil Wears Prada 2 is enough.
The continuing tale of Miranda, Andy, Nigel, and Emily has been placed in the terrible truth of the outsourcing media market in 2026 thanks to author Aline Brosh McKenna and producer David Frankel, who both worked on the first film.
Where there was once the funds for a month-long photo shot in some far-flung spot, Nigel expounds to Andy, where it is now two nights in a local theater. Resources are squandered to the point of death, just like Andy’s job at the major newspaper, where she and her coworkers were instantly fired by text at the start of the movie.
While the film was shot before that, Jeff Bezos is feared in the form of Justin Theroux, who is portrayed as a terrible and insane stand-in named Benji Barnes, which is a recurring theme.
The schedule is kind of perfect because Andy is hired to give the magazine-turned-cross system media brand’s features office reliability while Runway has been the subject of a controversy of its own and its future is uncertain.
The Devil Wears Prada 2’s quality isn’t really cheerful; it’s a Pollyanna cop-out. The ripped-from-the-headlines environment is essential in telling any tale about a fashion magazine in 2026.
If anything, the movie is overly sentimental. It also has opinions about MacKenzie Scott and Lauren Sanchez ( which, fair to us ), management consultants, and media empire nepo babies ( B. J. Novak playing the smarmy guy you want to punch ), which is not just Theroux’s Bezos-esque tech titan who dismisses human creativity in favor of an AI future.
There are plenty of opportunities for existing fans to enjoy.
A reined-in Miranda is still a Maybach driver, but she now hangs her own coat, and Simone Ashley, her first assistant, is on hand to help her out ( trying to get “body positivity” as if a white flag was stuck in her throat ).
These are enjoyable, but no particular zinger from the first movie is as memorable as it was after the first viewing anyway. partly because it overemphasized easter eggs and threw the OG, which leaves little room for potential classics to develop.
There isn’t a new cerulean jumper speech that persuasively supports the existence of Runway, and there aren’t any” Florals.” for the spring? ” Groundbreaking” jibe, because, despite all the sequined outfits, the movie is flat and blanched overall.
Over the next 20 years, it’s possible that love for The Devil Wears Prada 2 will grow. Maybe we’ll remember it as a time when we believed that technology could be defeated by altruism and appreciation for something beautiful and good. We thought fashion magazines still had a fighting chance.
However, the only way that will occur is if everyone’s annual rewatch doubles up.
This sequel is merely an addendum, not a stand-alone work. That might be enough for what it is if you don’t give it a lot of thought.
Rating: 3/5
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