The Devil Wears Prada 2 movie review: The devil wears thin, but not Miranda Priestly in Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway sequel
Andy returns to help restore Runway’s credibility as the sequel reunites the core cast and confronts the magazine’s struggle for readers and revenue.
- On Friday, May 1, The Devil Wears Prada 2 released in cinemas, reuniting core-four cast members Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci twenty years after the original film.
- Andy Sachs, now an award-winning journalist, returns to Runway to "restore the credibility" of the magazine following a poorly judged editorial choice by Editor-in-Chief Miranda Priestly.
- Facing dwindling reader interest and digital onslaught, Runway struggles under metrics devised by "management consultants," reflecting real challenges facing print media today.
- New characters including Amari, played by Simone Ashley, and Charlie, played by Caleb Hearon, join the cast, while costume designer Molly Rogers supplies iconic looks like Andy's $11 Margiela jacket.
- The film attempts to capture millennial optimism, though critics note its critique of society and commerce has less bite than the 2006 original, which remains a generational touchstone.
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An elegy for the glossies: A review of 'The Devil Wears Prada 2'
Director David Frankel and Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna both deserve to be given a resounding pat on the back for this "twenty years after" sequel to "The Devil Wears Prada.""The Devil Wears Prada 2" knows when to deviate from the source material, and give a contemporary sheen to the narrative. It’s glossy, it has attitude, it manages expectations, and nimbly provides fan service to those who loved the 2003 novel of Lauren Weisberger, and th…
'The Devil Wears Prada 2' would like us to understand that the editor-in-chief's worship of power has had an important journalistic superstructure. But is that true?
Why Does Meryl Streep Play Miranda Priestly as a Different Character in ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’?
“The Devil Wears Prada 2” commits a sin that would give any glossy-magazine profile writer a shudder of recognition. It falls in love with its subject — and delivers, rather than a frank and delicious portrait, a puff piece. In this franchise’s first installment, released in 2006, editor-from-hell Miranda Priestly ruled her domain with a terrifying, unflappable calm. That her standing in the publishing world are diminished 20 years later refle…
REVIEW: ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’
The novel called The Devil Wears Prada was a sensation upon its release in 2003 because it told the truth about the abusive atmosphere at the media organization that was then the most powerful company in magazine journalism, and about the disgusting behavior of the ice-cold monster who sat atop the greasy pole of fashion publishing. She bears another name in the book—Miranda Priestly—but there was literally no one in the world of writing who had…
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