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Devil Wears Prada, and Chanel, and Gucci and on and on!
Cute movie, fairly well written. Meryl Streep is fabulous as always. The Male art director is played supurbly by Stanley Tucci. Not too over the top just enough. But the female lead and her boyfriend were a weird casting?? She did not really act, seemed to just walk through it. And her boyfriend was really not developed. He is fantastic in Entourage and easy on the eyes, but was kind of out of place here. The female leads friends should have been developed more. The Clothing was fabulous to say the least, a must have for any fashionista simply for motivation when getting ready for a night out. Makes you want to re-evaluate your career decisions and go to work for a fashion publication just for the wardrobe closet. The personalities could work for any career or industry. Who hasn't worked with a person like Meryl. ha ha. Very good movie. My 69 year old Dad loved it as well?? Go figure. It is very well done and worth the time. Even a significant male "other" won't mind sitting thru it. Great to introduce fashion to even the most unwashed tree-hugging fashion novice. TRead full review...
A surprisingly entertaining movie pitting ego against integrity
I bought this movie for several reasons. I never went to the theater to see it, because Meryl Streep was in it. She is so blah. However, she fit this part. I used to be a magazine editor, and it brought back so many wonderful, and awful, memories. When talking about "the book" it made me homesick for my old life. It was especially entertaining. Editors are treated like royalty at times, although this movie escalated Miranda a little too high. But there is always one evil editor in a publishing company who has a massive ego. (not me, my associate)
Also, I could watch Simon Baker all day! Would certainly purchase again.Read full review...
Lovely Product, A Pleasure Doing Business With!
Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) is a fashion she-devil in "The Devil Wears Prada."
Meryl Streep is indeed poised and imperious as Miranda, and Anne Hathaway is a great beauty ("Ella Enchanted," "Brokeback Mountain") who makes a convincing career girl. I liked Stanley Tucci, too, as Nigel, the magazine's fashion director, who is kind and observant despite being a careerist slave. But I thought the movie should have reversed the roles played by Grenier and Baker. Grenier comes across not like the old boyfriend but like the slick New York writer, and Baker seems the embodiment of Midwestern sincerity, which makes sense, because he is from Australia, the Midwest of the southern hemisphereRead full review...
Do Your Job
When Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) lets her hair down with Andrea Sachs (played by Ann Hathaway) in Paris, after she has let Andrea know that Miranda's husband, Steven, does not need to be picked up at the airport since he has decided to sue for divorce, Andrea fully identifying with Miranda's situation (one can see it so well in Ann Hathaway's face, and one should not underestimate Ann Hathaway's performance), asks Miranda, "Is there anything else I can do?" Miranda quickly settles back into her normal "hauteur" and replies, "Your job."
That is exactly what one can say that everyone involved with this film has done. The writer of the screenplay, McKenna (if I remember correctly) has gone farther than the original book by Lauren Weisberger and has given the devil her due. The cutting and editing are simply perfect. The music is admirably chosen and sometimes proves to be a link between one scene and another (e.g., between Andrea's scene with her boyfriend Nate and the quick cut to the Urban Jungle shoot). (It is well worth buying the CD for the music, as I have done as well.) One has to see this movie more than one time and it is well worth doing so. It is easy to notice Meryl Streep's admirable performance at first, but another viewing lets one see the slow but perfect development of Andrea (an everyman -- or everywoman -- a Faustian character, e.g., Emily's comment: "I knew you sold your soul when you tried on your first pair of Jimmy Choo's." But Stanley Tucci's (Nigel) and Emily Blunt's (Emily) roles are simply perfect as well. Even the minor characters, Nate and Christian, are really well done, though they are perhaps more "fifth business" rather than central characers, even though they are central characters, but somewhat sketchily developed. Nigel's (Tucci), "[Fashion] It's art, but greater than art, because it's something which you wear on your back -- well, not you, but some people," etc. and the comment by the Newspaper Editor at the end of the movie about some snooty girl, such a fun, perfect, snooty girl. One can see her other side when she tells Andrea's successor, "You have big shoes to fill."
One can go on and on, one can comment on every scene, every line, but the sum of it is where I began. It is as if Miranda Priestly was in charge of everything and everyone did their job. (If the whole thing was a take on Vogue's Anna Wintour -- or her predecessors, Grace Mirabella or Diana Vreeland -- or her counterparts at other similar publications, like Harper's Bazaar, none of them should feel any objection at all, for in the end, they all did their job, or as Andrea told Christian, (paraphrase) "If it were a man doing Miranda's job, there would be no criticism."
I watched the movie in the theater 10 times and on the DVD I watched it again, and then again with the Director's comments and the deleted scenes. The deleted scenes were wonderful, but, yes, they were rightly deleted from the movie itself, to pace it properly (so once again, everyone did their job).
The last time I was so impressed with a film was in 1979 with the movie "Time after Time," starring Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenbergen and about H.G. Well's really having a time machine and coming to 1979 with Jack the Ripper a.k.a., his friend, a Doctor Stevenson. In that movie, there was only one scene (in the bank) which I thought didn't fit, but otherwise, well put together.
It isn't that a movie is (or attempts to be) profound. "Apocalypse Now" had profound inRead full review...
The Devil Wears Prada Well
I knew just from the previews this film would be a hit, and I was right. The Devil Wears Prada is a delightfully fun movie with great performances from the beautiful Meryl Streep and The Princess Diaries star, Anne Hathaway. The story is very memorable, the acting is flawless, it's easy to follow and you feel like it was well worth it when you walk out of the theater. This is the kind of movie that could get you interested in fashion if you're that kind of girl! This motion picture is very well made and I enjoyed it completely! Thumbs up for me, and definitely recommended!Read full review...
Chick Flick!
Ok, I hate that term, but that's what this film is a chick flick from beginning to end..movie opens with a frumpy, but nicely dressed young women going to a high fashion magazine for a job..of course everyone is appalled as she's hired..one coworker the last one you would expect ends up taking her under his or her wings and she's off flying..from frumpy to trendy! This film will make you laugh cry and say ooh I want that! Everything one deals with in life is touched on in this film..love, hate, envy, relationships, pain and yes even desire! The characters are very likeable even the devil herself..Meryl Streep did this role justice! A standing ovation all around..a Job well done..don't miss this one!Read full review...
Brilliant!
The Devil Wears Prada originally reminded me a bit of the story line in The Secret of My Success, the Michael J. Fox film of 1987 about a kid from a small mid-western town who goes to New York to find his fortune, and who struggles mightily to gain a foothold before eventually figuring out how to play the game.
However, this yarn is far superior. Anne Hathaway is rapidly becoming my favorite young actress and she is delightful in this role. As Andrea Sachs, Hathaway is delightful and believable opposite an imposing and ruthless Meryl Streep, as Amanda Priestly. Streep presents another flawless performance as Priestly, Managing Editor of Runway, a Vogue type fashion magazine, and she loathes and disrespects her new "second assistant", Sachs from the beginning. It's just amazing how Streep can occupy a character and make us hate her. The film's title proves totally appropriate when referring to Amanda Priestly.
It's evident from the outset that she intends to humiliate and embarrass this hayseed who knows nothing about real fashion. It takes a bit longer for the youngster's contempt for her boss to show through her mid-western manners, and there are lots of funny situations along the way. Eventually, her disgust begins to evolve into respect, and before long, she is offered a promotion to "first assistant", but she must first demote Emily, the girl who holds the job, played by a very amusing Emily Blunt. Eventually, Andrea must choose between the glimmer of the big city and the values that took her there.
We watched this film with our teenage daughters, and it was entertaining for everyone. We strongly recommend it.Read full review...
A Decent Film for Fans of the Book.
The best selling novel hits the big screen in "The Devil Wears Prada." Anne Hatheway stars as a goofy, fashionless assistant to Meryl Streep who plays a ruthless fashion godess. As the movie progresses, Hatheway has to choose between love, friendship, loyalty, sanity, and the success of her job for her ruthless boss. The acting is well done and the story closely follows the bestselling novel. There are some weaknesses to the film, but all in all it's not bad. The ending does leave something to be desired. All in all a good, fun film, but most viewers probably won't put this one on thier all time favorites list.Read full review...
Great Chick Flick!
This clever, funny big-screen adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's best-seller takes some of the snarky bite out of the chick lit book, but smoothes out the characters' boxy edges to make a more satisfying movie. There's no doubt The Devil Wears Prada belongs to Meryl Streep, who turns in an Oscar-worthy (seriously!) strut as the monster editor-in-chief of Runway, an elite fashion magazine full of size-0, impossibly well-dressed plebes. This makes new second-assistant Andrea (Anne Hathaway), who's smart but an unacceptable size 6, stick out like a sore thumb. Streep has a ball sending her new slave on any whimsical errand, whether it's finding the seventh (unpublished) Harry Potter book or knowing what type she means when she wants "skirts." Though Andrea thumbs her nose at the shallow world of fashion (she's only doing the job to open doors to a position at The New Yorker someday), she finds herself dually disgusted yet seduced by the perks of the fast life. The film sends a basic message: Make work your priority, and you'll be rich and powerful... and lonely. Any other actress would have turned Miranda into a scenery-chewing Cruella, but Streep's underplayed, brilliant comic timing make her a fascinating, unapologetic character. Adding frills to the movie's fun are Stanley Tucci as Streep's second-in-command, Emily Blunt as the overworked first assistant, Simon Baker as a sexy writer, and breathtaking couture designs any reader of Vogue would salivate over.Read full review...
A Great Chick-Flick that Guys can Enjoy
The Devil Wears Prada
Definitely a must see Chick-Flick. It scores guys points for watching it with their love and it's actually enjoyable!
I wasn't excited to watch The Devil Wears Prada, but after some nagging I finally gave in, settled down, and started to watch a movie I thought I was going to hate. I was wrong, I actually found myself drawn in from the very beginning. I usually get up half-way through movies like this and find something else to do until it ends, but I just couldn't.
The characters are great, the acting is superb, the story is hilarious, sad, and exciting. I though there was a slim chance that this movie could be decent but it was incredible.
Everybody in this film does a great job, but the scene stealer for me was Stanley Tucci, HILARIOUS.
Not only does the film itself deliver, but the special features are great as well. The gag reel is simply amazing.
Final Verdict:
5/5
Rent or Buy?: I won't buy it, but my girlfriend will, and so will all her friends, and if there's a female in your life you should too!
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