The Devil Wears Prada
Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway clash with comic hilarity in this movie. Meryl Streep’s Cruella De Vil styled fashion magazine editor is a show stealing performance. But Anne Hathaway steals some back with her carefully paced character arc that follows a young aspiring writer through her first job as Assistant to the Editor at the ficticious Runway Magazine.
Lauren Weisberger wears a smile with a certain naive innocence, but behind it she has a wonderfully wicked sense of humor. She also has a real life connection to her book (now a film), The Devil Wears Prada. Lauren’s first job as Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Magazine in Manhattan gave her everything she needed to imitate life with art - a world of stiletto heels, Starbucks, and uncompromising demands. Luckily, she made it out alive, and with her humor intact.
Whether you’ve read the best-selling book or not, the movie makers, according to Lauren have found a way to make every joke funnier. Not a small task, but one easily achieved with actors such as Stanley Tucci, Emily Blunt and Adrian Grenier filling out the cast. And then of course there’s Sex and the City director David Frankel and Oscar-winning producer Wendy Finerman.
Guaranteed, the clothes horse in everyone will appreciate the endless entourage of styles that are as sharp as the wit. The Devil Wears Prada is a good comedy with a lesson about values, how to lose them, and how to find your way back to them again.
The best line repeated incessantly in the movie … THAT’S, all.
