The Devil Wears Prada (Full Screen Edition)

This is one of my favorite films for life in the fast fashion lane. The people who populate this realm are unlike any others you will find. By the end of the film, you are as convinced as Andrea that the fashion world is the only real world in existence. She learns a lot, loses some things she shouldn't, but gains what she needs to step away and leave the cold marble runways for the models chiseled from that same unfeeling stone. A return to her roots leaves her wiser and better able now to cope with things she had no experience of before. The cast is superb and star-studded. You will have to watch this movie at least twice, and then about every few months after that. It is VERY entertaining.

This is one of my favorite movies ever. The fashion, the characters, the scenery...what's not to like? Streep steals the show as a powerhouse leader. WOW!

The best movie can’t wait for the sequel

I watched it again, since I had not seen in in 20 years, in preparation for watching "The Devil Wears Prada 2" soon. It holds up well and is very amusing. The acting is fabulous! Well done! Enjoy!!

Glad I watched it again...ready now for Prada #2

There are only three things wrong with the title of this review for the film "The Devil Wears Prada." First, Anne Hathaway is an actress who plays the character of Andy Sachs, but I keep thinking of her as Anne Hathaway as in "Now that Anne Hathaway has done sex scenes to get away from the whole Disney-Princess bit she is heading back in that direction in this film" instead of as her character. Second, it was grade Flavor-Aid and not Kool-Aid that was mixed with cyanide and Valium at the order of Jim Jones in Jonestown (and no one who drank it survived) but since the phrase "drink the Kool-aid" has become part of the vernacular once again historical facts have to take a back seat. Third, haute couture is used loosely to refer to all high-fashion custom-fitted clothing, but in France is now a protected name that can only be used by French fashion firms that meet well-defined standards. This time I will embrace the vernacular and my contradictory position on such things. I used this flawed title for my review because for me it defines the pivotal moment in "The Devil Wears Prada" that establishes both the film's major strength and its ultimate flaw. Andy Sachs wants to be a journalist but ends up as the second assistant for Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), editor in chief of "Runway" magazine (think of something beyond "Vogue") because maybe a smart "fat" girl can work where so many skinny well-dressed girls have not. Andy is fresh from the Midwest and has a level head on her shoulder, so she knows, as do we the audience, that Miranda and everybody else at "Runway" are pretentious, elitist snobs. Nigel (Stanley Tucci) is nice, but everybody else follows the lead of Emily (Emily Blunt) and treats Andy as somebody from another planet where nobody dresses well because they buy off the rack. Taking notes during a meeting that has descended to the question of which belt would be the proper accessory, Andy snickers. Miranda casts a withering stare at Andy and then proceeds to explain why the sweater Andy is wearing is a direct result of a similar decision made by the people in that room a few years earlier. That is the point where Andy does the Kool-aid drinking, and it was the point at which this film version of the novel by Lauren Weisberger starts to get away from being totally predictable. When screenwriter Aline Brosh McKennna ("Laws of Attraction") and director Peter Howitt ("Sliding Doors") take the fashion business more seriously, which is to say when Andy starts to take it more seriously, "The Devil Wears Prada" gains considerably more weight. Everytime we get back to Andy's boy friend Nate (Adrian Grenier), best friend Lily (Tracie Thoms), and fourth wheel Doug (Rich Sommer), things are a lot less interesting than when she is at the office. Her job is clearly demanding and her friends take issue with the fact that it might possibly be considered rewarding. However, I was interested in the idea that Andy would find her niche rather than lose her soul working for Miranda. Unfortunately, in the end we get back to the predictable path the film laid out in the beginning and the mantra that no job is more important than family and/or friends. The problem is I do not accept that premise, thinking of plenty of jobs (e.g., teaching) that require you to put the job first (I think of Leo McCary in Season 1 of "The West Wing" telling his wife that the job he is doing is more important than his family at that point of time; Leo's wife left him, but I have always believed he was right). The net result is that despite another great performance from Streep, Tucci having some fun, and what should be a breakout role for Blunt, "The Devil Wears Prada" ends up being nothing more than what it promised to be from the beginning. I might have liked this 2006 film more without my favorite scene, because at that point I was thinking the film was more ambitious than it turned out to be. I know that the film is probably just being faithful to how the novel ends, but I definitely liked the movie I thought they were making more than the one they were actually making. At the very least I would have liked to see them walk the tightrope a bit longer, so that the idea Miranda's world was worth living in could be maintained in the last half of the film. But the whole "Hell on Heels" bit proves too seductive and if Streep sets up another Oscar nomination by refusing to let her character descend into caricature, the same cannot be said by Hathaway's Andy and this anti-princess cautionary tale.

Enjoy

One of my favorite “work wars” movies. This movie has a strong message of finding out who you are and staying true to your calling. How to contribute your gifts to the world without losing yourself in all the noise and dramatization of success. I could watch this movie over and over again and still find something new about the dynamics that I had not previously discovered.

Io sono amante delle commedie americane; questo film è molto carino. lo consiglio

Contente de l'avoir acheté Film super

Les consignes Looker sont vraiment l'avenir

Meryl Streep was definitely robbed of an Oscar for this movie. Brilliant acting all around, great cast, awesome story and wholesome movie.

Ottimo dvd! Condizioni perfette, la consegna è stata puntuale. Lo consiglio a che piace il genere commedia !