Hello, I just watched The Devil Wears Prada 2 with my friends and my brain is literally fried. I wanted to like the movie so bad, but I had heard mixed reviews, so I went in expecting nothing.
This is just my opinion… pls don’t cancel me, I’m fragile 😭 but thoughts??
MAJOR Devil Wears Prada 2 SPOILERS!
I had no spoilers, but I hated it so much, I can’t even begin to put it into words.
First, the movie felt like I’m a teenager who just discovered that babies don’t fall from the sky, and I’m so confused about what to do with that information. Like… no direction at all.
Second, I did not like how the movie tried to show contrasts and then went off topic. Like okay, you could have done without the contrast of Emily having kids and Andy freezing her eggs. Why is that even coming up? In one scene you say a woman must not be defined by marriage, and then you’re suddenly talking about kids and boyfriend/not boyfriend? What’s going on? Why are they not talking more about their career? Or like life?
And I wanted the background score to be good so bad, but it was so disappointing. I love Lady Gaga, but honestly the only song I remember from the movie is “Vogue” - strike a pose.
I love Nigel from the bottom of my heart, and I honestly think him and Amari were the only ones who served the whole movie. Emily’s outfits also didn’t disappoint, but everything else was just not giving 😭
And what do you mean Miranda realized Nigel deserved the spotlight after more than 20 years just because Andy said so? Like no one in her life has ever said that?? She didn’t realise it in the slightest too? Come on. How much more shallow can a plot be?
Also, I can’t stop noticing the similarities with the show Younger. Andy is like a messed-up version of Liza, in a relationship with “Charles” who is basically Miranda, busy, powerful, always caught up between the CEO, new tech, and the death of publishing and print media and them saving the day with an “acquisition”. And obviously, Josh in the movie is like the book about Miranda, a guilty pleasure Andy doesn’t want to do but keeps going back to. And the art collector/artist friend?? 😭 Is that Maggie? And is it just me or Miranda felt like she was a mix of the original Miranda and “Diana” from Empirical Publishing. Emily being the Kelsey, of course who needs to take over and is the new visionary speaking to the “younger audience”.
Also, I love Meryl Streep, her acting in the film is genuinely incredible. But is it just me, or did they completely change her personality? Suddenly she’s having long conversations with everyone, when her whole vibe used to be “we exchange looks, and you only speak if absolutely necessary.” It feels like they were trying to make her more “human,” but I don’t really get why. Like… why change something that already worked so well?
And that missed opportunity at the end, when Miranda says, “something… anything else?” Andy could have said “that’s all” as a callback to the first movie. Please. I’m actually dying at what they skipped there.
And the new cerulean blue sweater? It looks so bad, I’m sorry 😭
And the ending, oh my god. It just felt like they were trying to somehow say Anna Wintour was okay with the book and embraced it, and that’s why it got published? Like… happy ending? I loved the first movie because of the bittersweet ending, where the characters played roles in each other’s lives, some things changed, some didn’t, and they moved on. But this? This felt like they’re all family now or something.
My last two cents: Emily should have worked in Prada. That would have been so funny.