The Devil Wears Prada 2: A glittering Sequel

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"The Devil Wears Prada Two" is out for the world to see and it is quite glamorous with beautiful outfits dressing up a rather bland plot. Today we will cut open the seams to what the movie was really like. Of course this will include spoilers so be ready and proceed with caution.

The first thing in the movie that jumps out at you is the beautiful outfits. From the first few minutes of the movie, you can tell that enormous amounts of effort were put into the outfits that the characters were wearing. Each look conveys elegance, beauty and a general air of elegance. This remains consistent throughout the movie with every character looking stunning through most of their runtime. This is especially prominent with our main characters with special attention paid to Miranda (the character portrayed by Meryll Streep), the fashion queen of the newspaper, with her looks being consistently jaw dropping and intricately made. This attention is also given to our other main characters, only in the latter half of the movie, introducing stunning looks from the entire cast. But the beautiful costuming does little to hide this movie's major flaw in the writing.

The movie comes off as very preachy upon even a first viewing with our main character Andy Sachs giving an impassioned speech after being fired from her job. This speech doesn't land for mainly one reason, the issue is immediately resolved. Literally minutes later she gets an offer from Runway (the main newspaper brand and the employer of the main cast) for what is described as twice her old salary. She is onboarded to deal with a piece of bad press regarding how they were sourcing their clothes involving child labor that was recently released and runway needs to deal with. While this may seem like the main plot of the movie (a critique of the fashion industry's exploitation and opacity to the public) it is immediately dealt with without issue by Andy, and this theme is only mentioned once more to set up a joke. We then move on to the next plot that seems to be the main focus of the movie, Andy earning Miranda's recognition and respect, by getting an interview with an elusive socialist who has reportedly not spoken to the public in years. She then does this with extreme ease through a montage, getting the interview and Miranda's respect. We then finally move onto the main plot of the movie being a battle over who will gain control of the newspaper now that the owner has died. 

This is finally the plot we stick with. It is bland and incredibly predictable, but the movie has one more saving grace: it is quite humorous at times. While certainly not constantly funny and not all of the jokes land, the ones that do work incredibly well and do a great job of characterizing the main cast. This brings me to the villain Emily, one of the other girls interesting during the first movie and while she is quite a basic character she is funny and manages to have a sort of emotional arc of connecting with Andy after the events of the second movie it is however underwhelming and seems a bit rushed it is overall quite sweet.

My final appraisal of the movie is that it takes a bit of time to get its bearing but once it does it is quite a nice time. Everything and everyone is beautiful and you'll get some good laughs. Is it without flaws but it is overall a decent movie made to entertain.

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All information was gained by watching the movie in question.

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F.B. Brookings is a high school student at Poudre High School and is involved in many different clubs including model UN Mock Trial and HOSA, among others. In his free time, he loves to play with his cat, read, or make a sweet treat. This is his first year at the press and second at Poudre High School.