The Devil Wears Prada
Hell on heels.
Based on the hilarious best-selling novel by Lauren Weisberger, this sinfully funny movie starring Academy Award winner Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway is "sensationally entertaining in every way" (Maxim). As assistant to impossibly demanding New York fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Streep), young Andy Sachs (Hathaway) has landed a job that "a million girls would die for." Unfortunately, her heaven-sent appointment as Miranda's personal whipping girl just might be the death of her!
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Review - The Devil Wears Prada - maw-
Having watched "The September Issue", this movie almost paled in comparison, since it's fiction. It's interesting how many scenes were similar to ones in the documentary. I found the movie mildly amusing, and the characters over the top. It has an annoying typical Hollywood-style ending.Worth a Watch - Tigger28
Meryl Streep shines as a Cruella DeVil type character in the fashion industry. With her sleek style and sharp wit she is the cutting edge boss that no one wants to work for. Demanding everything perfect and pristine at all hours of the day, Streep has co-star Anne Hathaway running awry around New York City in an attempt to keep her new job as Streep’s assistant. Based on the book of the same name the film captures some of the evilness of Miranda Priestly, but the actual movie does not do justice to the performances of both Streep and Hathaway.A Brilliant Caricature Of The World Of High Fashion - revsdd
This is not an outrageously funny movie but it does offer a devastatingly effective caricature (or is it a caricature?) of the world of high fashion, mostly seen through the eyes of Andy, a young woman who takes a job as second assistant to Miranda Priestly, the cold as ice, hard as nails editor in chief of "Runway Magazine" - the world's top fashion magazine. Andy is totally out of her comfort zone. She's not a fashion junkie and she only took the job to get some experience in journalism. Priestly, however, takes this business very seriously - almost a life or death matter, and she demands the same of her staff, whose lives she turns into hell. The caricature of the fashion world is brilliant - a world where loyalty is unknown and friendship is fleeting and artificial at best; a world where (in reference to women's dress sizes) "0 is the new 2, 2 is the new 4 and 6 is the new 14;" a world in which Andy (who is very beautiful) is dismissed as "fat" because she's a size 6. A world in which Emily - Miranda's "first assistant" - is on a diet that allows her to eat "a cube of cheese" if she feels like she's about to faint.
Meryl Streep was brilliant, playing Miranda as totally out of control (and totally, icily in control) - a sort of Martha Stewart type of character (even the look and the voice were eerily reminiscent of Martha.) Emily Blunt was almost her equal as Emily (also icy cold and totally consumed by this dog eat dog world.) I thought they both outshone Anne Hathaway, who was nevertheless quite good, portraying Andy as reluctantly stepping into this world, and then fighting not to become so caught up in it that it ruins her life. In a somewhat understated role, Stanley Tucci was also very effective as Nigel, the closest thing Miranda has to a friend on the staff.
It's not the sort of comedy that will have you rolling on the floor laughing, but it is fun (mostly because its portrayal of the fashion world seems so believable.)
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Review - The Devil Wears Prada - maw-
Having watched "The September Issue", this movie almost paled in comparison, since it's fiction. It's interesting how many scenes were similar to ones in the documentary. I found the movie mildly amusing, and the characters over the top. It has an annoying ...Worth a Watch - Tigger28
Meryl Streep shines as a Cruella DeVil type character in the fashion industry. With her sleek style and sharp wit she is the cutting edge boss that no one wants to work for. Demanding everything perfect and pristine at all hours of the day, Streep has co-star ...A Brilliant Caricature Of The World Of High Fashion - revsdd
This is not an outrageously funny movie but it does offer a devastatingly effective caricature (or is it a caricature?) of the world of high fashion, mostly seen through the eyes of Andy, a young woman who takes a job as second assistant to Miranda Priestly, ...