With both Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway reluctant to return for a sequel it seemed that The Devil Wears Prada 2 would never get made but almost inevitably some 20 years later it has with its original quartet of stars that included Emily Blunt (in a star making role) and Stanley Tucci along with original director David Frankel.
For both Hathaway and Blunt’s characters their careers have moved onwards and upwards. Hathaway’s journalist Andy Sachs is now an award winning features writer and Blunt’s Emily Charlton is now running the NY offices of a major designer brand. But bombshells drop when Hathaway’s magazine is closed down by its owner as a tax write off and Streep’s iconic editor Miranda Priestley now finds her and her magazine Runway at the centre of a fashion sweat shop controversy that threatens to engulf and destroy her career and reputation made worse by the news breaking on the eve of the announcement that she is to be promoted to an even higher position in the company
So it’s to that end that the owner of Runway hires Andy as Runway’s features writer to rehabilitate Miranda’s reputation to justify the now delayed promotion. Much to the disdain of Miranda she assigns Andy a stationary cupboard as her new office and the waspish office politics begins.
The four leads are all on point as might be expected: Streep as cutting as ever, Tucci a reassuring steady hand to all, Hathaway the talented writer wanting to do her best for all regardless of how she’s treated and Blunt still insecure behind the icy façade she’s now adopted from Streep’s Miranda. And there’s good support from Justin Theroux as the dim but wealthy fiance of Blunt but other characters you’d like to see given more of their moment – Simone Ashley as Miranda’s PA, Caleb Hearon as Miranda’s second PA who is not allowed to leave his desk, Helen J Shen as a perky intern and Kenneth Branagh’ s talents wasted as Miranda’s husband. And then there are the cameos which for fashionista’s the film is a dream so whilst Lady Gaga and Donatella Versace are easily identified there’s a load of others whose faces are far less well known that their names. And of course the costume design is understandably impressive even if it does occasionally veer into the Zoolander territory.
In the twenty years since the original film much has changed in publishing with newspapers and magazines circulation in rapid decline at the expense of the rise and rise of digital media. It’s certainly a case worth stating that in an age of factually inaccurate Instagram pictures, X tweets and tik-tok videos there’s a world of quality journalism that is being ignored to the detriment of a generation.
But the script has some pointedly relevant lines in an age of careerism most notably by Miranda herself with the truism, ‘How much of my kids’ lives I missed?…. There’s a cost if you love working’. But in a digital it’s good to see a film champion journalism.
Whilst the pacing is a little off the story is well intentioned but less engaging but is helped immeasurably helped by the four main actors who are as good as might be expected. There are plenty of in-jokes and back references to the original film that fans will relish but there’s an underdeveloped and unconvincing love story for Hathaway that’s shoehorned in to no real benefit. But for fans who have eagerly been waiting for a sequel The Devil wears Prada 2 will not disappoint.
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