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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 1182
Released: December 12, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Based on the hilarious best-selling novel, this sinfully funny movie starring Academy Award(r) winner Meryl Streep* and Anne Hathaway is "sensationally entertaining in every way" (maxim). As assistant to impossibly demanding New York fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Streep), young Andy Sachs (Hathaway) has landed a job that "a million girls would die for." Unfortunately, her heaven-sent appointment as Miranda's personal whipping girl just might be the death of her!
Description of The Devil Wears Prada (Widescreen Edition):
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 Streep has a ball sending her new slave on any whimsical errand, whether it's finding the seventh (unpublished) Harry Potter book or knowing what type she means when she wants "skirts."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 (My Summer of Love) as the overworked first assistant, Simon Baker as a sexy writer, and breathtaking couture designs any reader of Vogue would salivate over. -- Ellen A. Kim
Beyond The Devil Wears Prada
The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel | 
The Devil Wears Prada Soundtrack | 
Prada Handbags |
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Zero redeeming qualities. 
2009-12-09 - I continue to be baffled by the positive attention that this movie has gotten. As a college-aged girl with friends who are all obsessed with this movie, I agreed to see it at some point, and then immediately lost respect for half of my friends.
What is this movie about? An unintelligent, inarticulate, doormat who we're supposed to like for some reason who learns absolutely nothing. She goes to work for some fancy magazine even though she seems totally incompetent, she starts being all shallow, then realizes she shouldn't be shallow. But at least she dropped from a size 6 to a size 4 and kept those cute boots!! Seriously, what is that?
In the end, I have no idea if this movie is trying to justify the existence of the fashion industry or else criticize it. Sure, the main character eventually leaves her job... but her awful experiences and her awful choices (for instance, sleeping with some really greasy dude while she's out of town... this is, apparently, not an issue at all) don't have any real negative ramifications. She gets a great reference or something, moves on, but it's considered a positive step that she is, now, considered conventionally attractive. EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS ATTRACTIVE THE WHOLE TIME. Characters consistently make fun of her for being a "fat" size 6, and then at the end, with a satisfied smirk, says she's dropped to a size four. And this is the enlightened, I-have-figured-out-my-priorites part of the movie. I have no idea why we're supposed to like the main character. I have no idea why people think that a movie which potrays a protagonist who is so vapid and unlikeable, which views anorexia sympathetically (of all things), which really does seem to value looks over anything else, is a good movie. It's not even funny. There are NO jokes. People talk a lot and then don't say anything. This movie has no depth, no substance, and no message. If anything, it is that being really really good looking really IS important. Even if you're (supposedly) smart and stuff, you could still lose some weight, fatty!
This is one of the few movies that has actually been bad enough to make me angry. Aside from the obvious comment that Meryl Streep's performance was pretty fantastic, this movie has absolutely no redeeming qualities. There is no reason to watch it.
Streep Steals The Show 
2009-11-16 - Like my review for To Wong Foo, I'm at a loss for words with this one. Its not a genre I regularly review but I'm gonna try my best. Meryl Streep is just a great actress, she can do anything. Period. She plays the boss from hell so perfectly that there is sympathy for Miranda when she has her little "heart to heart" near the end. Anne Hathaway proves she can do more than Disney films, convincingly leaving that part of her behind and stepping into a more mature role. She plays Andrea very well and she doesn't seem intimidated by Streep at all. Her portrayal as a girl who is naive about the world of fashion but gets sucked into the world of success and begins to lose everything around her is very well done. Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt are also excellent supporting players in this, Blunt very handily playing the snob and Tucci as the helpful yet sarcastic fashion designer/consultant, whatever. The songs used in the film are superfluous and I wish they didn't have them. They're just really annoying. Well that's all I got on this one.
"The Devil Wears Prada"
2009-10-26 - I loved this movie! I usually choose movies by the actors/actresses that I love. Meryl Streep is one of my favorites. She does a wonderful job in this film and I am sure that she is far from this type of person in her real life. Her acting was incredible!
What caught my attention the most was the struggle that Andy had while deciding if it was worth her keeping a position that she really didn't want but did keep it in hopes that she would eventually get her dream job. She went above and beyond to try to please this woman she worked for.
I was kind of surprised that Andy's boyfriend eventually left her because he could not deal with her being married to her job. I don't think there are many men out there that are happy with an ordinary woman. I haven't come across too many! I thought he would have stayed by her side, understanding all along that she was just trying to reach her own goals.
I know this is Hollywood but in many ways I could relate to Andy and the life decisions she was making, while playing this part, as I too have worked for a few Amanda Priestly's and could have climbed the ladder of success but instead I chose not to live an artificial role...playing a part in life just to have "a better life". By the way, I like her last name PRIEST...ly! I took a moment to look up the word "Prada" because I really didn't know what it meant or stood for. I'd have to sell my soul to be able to afford this line of clothing. I'd have to say the Priestly name fits!
I will watch this again
I quit! hahahahahaha
2009-10-24 - Andraya,freshly graduated from college.who is trying to get ahead by taking a job as an assistant to an editor for a fashion mag called Runway. She likes the job, likes the free clothes and purses and the famous people she meets.
But Her boss,Miranda is a total lunatic.She is leaves her crap all over everybodies desks and expects people to get her flights during hurricanes. She times people with an egg timer, and an employee gets runover by a car ,while buying her scarfs at Hermes.
Miranda never screams,she is totally beneath screaming Miranda plays these psychological mindgames with her employees,and constantly threatens to fire people,but never does.Because Miranda's office is a revolving door and she can't keep people there.
Andy is scared at first,but then realizes that if she can deal with it for a year, she can get her dream job as a journalist.Also her sarcastic friend Nigel,who is Miranda's only long-time Employee try to helps her succeed at her Job.
The cast is all fab. Stanley Tucci from Julie and Julia and Simon Baker from the mentalist are both fabulous.Also the clothes are great. Like better than Sex and the city Great.My favorite was the green dress Anne had at the end and her bomber jacket.
The only thing I didn't like when when it got all preachy at the end.
Also Meryl did a great job.She has grey hair and doesn't sound like herself.Her voice is much deeper and flat like a man's shoe. She also plays this with such care, which is why so many people went to see and liked it.
My worse boss story
I used to have a boss that came to work loaded and stoned EVERYDAY.He was paranoid that someone was trying to steal his company off him and that his employees were ratting him out to his competitors,so he cut our pay to minimum wage,took away our sick days bonuses,ect. &bought digital cameras to put in each cubicle. He would watch the videos with his buddies while he was partying and write up the wrong people.I got writ up three times on days I was off! It took me two hours to iron that out with human resources. Then next day I am told our insurance forms were stolen. At that point me and two other people put their notices in.
Movie About A Hidden Side of Fashion, An Ugly One! 
2009-10-23 - A young women comes to New York searching a job as a journalist. She gets hired in a fashion magazine, which has a very tough work environment with a very tough president. The young women tries hard at first to resist this new culture she got in, however eventually she gets overwhelmed by it and loses many of its personal values and relationships. She experiences an internal struggle on whether she should keep sacrificing her life for her job, or the other way around.
I am not into fashion myself, but I thought this movie depicts a challenge that everyone can relate to. It depicts the struggle between individuality and society, in which society is usually the stronger one and overcomes individuality.
