The Devil Wears Prada 2 Is Glossy, Fun and Slightly Out of Fashion

The Devil Wears Prada 2

★ ★ ★

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is the long-awaited sequel to the 2006 smash hit. It’s been 20 years since we checked in with Miranda (Meryl Streep), Andy (Anne Hathaway), Emily (Emily Blunt) and Nigel (Stanley Tucci), along with the happenings at the fictional fashion magazine Runway.

When the last film ended, Andy quit Runway and her job as Miranda’s assistant. She chucks her phone in a Paris fountain and pursues her journalism career. Now, she’s an accomplished journalist, moments away from winning an award for her work. Just before her name is announced, her entire table receives a text saying the paper has been sold and they’ve all been fired.

Anne Hathaway as Andy, Meryl Streep as Miranda and Stanley Tucci as Nigel
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Meanwhile, Miranda and her publication have a PR nightmare on their hands involving a foreign sweatshop using child labor to make clothes. The magazine’s owner, Irv (Tibor Feldman), offers Andy a job running the features department. Her first assignment is to quell the current Runway firestorm.

Miranda acts like she doesn’t remember who Andy is. It might as well be her first day on the job 20 years ago. But there’s something Miranda desperately wants—an unobtainable interview with Sasha (Lucy Liu), a billionaire philanthropist who hasn’t talked to the press in years.

Getting back in Miranda’s good graces might be a moot point, as Runway is facing the same issue other publications are: no one reads the print edition anymore. It’s all online, trading clicks for page turns. It’s a theme completely relevant to our times, and I wish the film explored it more. Andy struggles for relevance as she jumps from one grease fire to another.

Stanley Tucci as Nigel and Anne Hathaway as Andy
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The film glosses over that theme while thrusting us into a corporate battle for control of the publication, forcing Andy to leap into action to save it. The thing is, we’re never really privy to what the plan actually is. Instead, we’re treated to montages set to kitschy runway music as Andy, her team and Miranda do whatever the plan is. The film seems keen to keep us in the dark on more than one scheme.

Part of the fun is knowing the plan, watching it go wrong and cheering our protagonists on as they pivot and adjust to reach their goal. It’s hard to cheer for it when we’re clueless. A little secrecy is good, but here it’s more guarded than Area 51.

Emily Blunt as Emily
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The secrecy also diminishes the conflict among the characters. When drama does surface, we get the sense that everyone’s going to get over it, clink a glass of wine and celebrate the future somehow.

The thing is, despite all this, it’s still a fun film. Is it the hard-hitting sequel fans deserve? Not by a long shot. But the characters are still learning and growing, and we get another glimpse into the glitz, glamour and storytellers behind it. It’s still a fun peek behind the curtain.

Anne Hathaway as Andy
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Even though the film retreads a few runways from the original, it doesn’t completely rely on the goodwill of the first movie. Only Tucci can deliver a line such as “Gird your loins” with gleeful, serious poise that tells us this guy knows his stuff. To the film’s credit, they don’t try to top that line. They just let Tucci be Nigel.

Much of the fun comes from the nostalgia of the original. Despite its flaws, it’s still worth a trip to the cinema, and it’s still a decent time at the movies. Had they raised the stakes a bit by focusing on print media’s decline and the threats AI brings, this movie really might have had something important to say. As it is, it’s more of a gossip column. Nothing wrong with that. It’s kept TMZ going since whenever.