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The Devil Wears Prada
By Kelly
While this film highlights how a college student makes the leap from school to professional life, I also believe that it highlights Meryl Streep’s enormous talent even though she is not the lead character. She gives such a commanding performance as the dominant totally unlikely boss. In fact there are various great supporting characters such as Stanley Tucci. He is worthful as the guy you love to hate. A in truth good script, plus outstanding actors equivalent a outstanding movie!
17 of 18 humans found the following review helpful.
One of the years best (but it’s not all when it comes to Meryl my friends)…
By Damian Gunn
My wife and I, huge fans of `America’s Next Top Model’ and `Project Runway’, were very excessively affected emotionally when it comes to seeing this film. Why it took us this long still baffles me, but as of Friday night we had the pleasure of seeing `The Devil Wears Prada’ and let me just say that it was rather the pleasure. Now, most if not all the praise has been heaped on the shoulders of Meryl Streep, and while she was outstanding, this film is more than just a Meryl painted canvas. There are four brilliant performances in this film and they all are deserving of praise.
First is Anne Hathaway who plays Andrea Sachs, a young aspiring journalist who takes a occupation working as Miranda Priestly assistant at `Runway Magazine’. Anne Hathaway proves with her performance that she’s all grown up. No, that’s not to take away from her more adult roles in more adult films like `Havoc’ and the masterwork `Brokeback Mountain’, but here Anne proves that she may do adult comedy, not falling back into her teen goofiness that made her widely known and esteemed in `The Princess Diaries’ but keeping everything smart and mature. She has sufficient poise and grace to match wits with Miranda, and she does so elegantly.
Next up is Emily Blunt who plays Emily, Miranda’s initial assistant (there are two, Andrea being the second). Emily has worked her butt off to get to where she is, slaving for the unruly Priestly and it’s all in regards to to compensate off with a trip alongside Miranda to Paris. The only thing standing in her way is Andrea, for if Andrea fails miserably then it reflects poorly on Emily. Emily Blunt turns out I think the best performance of the bunch for she has sufficient sass, sufficient attitude and sufficient wit to make her pop out from the screen and stand out no matter who is sharing the screen with her.
Stanley Tucci likewise does wondrously here as Nigel, Miranda’s second in command. He is there to make sure everything is perfect, and also support Andrea adjust. Stanley always has done outstanding backup work, playing second hand man to just with regards to everyone, but here he genuinely makes his performance his own and owns it. He delivers a lot of of the funniest lines in the film but he never feels like the `token gay guy’…he’s necessitated in this film, not filler, and he commands his scenes and actually stands out amongst the crowd.
And then, of course, we have Meryl Streep who plays the remorseless tyrant known as Miranda Priestly. What I was most impressed when it comes to was the way Meryl underplays each word, each emotion, each scene, which is not what I expected. I genuinely expected her to go all Glen Close and reincarnate Cruella but she didn’t (thankfully) and rather turned out one of the most inspired performances of the year. She ought to have had fun playing the snooty self absorbed and above all selfish editor-in-chief of `Runway’. She lets us see inside her reputation briefly (when crying over another failed marriage) but her reputation is more when it comes to shutting off sentiment in order to succeed and so we don’t get to see the real Miranda because we’re not supposed to.
Carried by these four brilliant performances `The Devil Wears Prada’ is a extremely pleasing film that will make you laugh and make you smile and will impress closely anyone. The script is brilliantly adapted from Lauren Weisberger’s novel, and while it’s not an precise reproduction (are any adaptations these days?) it carries the same wit but smoothes things out to make it more approachable and, in my eyes, more enjoyable. Bravo!
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Clever, funny and somewhat original…
By R. Gawlitta
This could effortlessly be dismissed as another “little-fish-in-a-big-pond” story, but the wondrous script and fine acting by all sets it high above the rest. Meryl Streep was terrific, though she was permitted to show a soft side a few times, which took away from the “bite” that may have been implied by the title. (I had a boss like that, but mine was meaner and showed less sensitivity). Streep is not the main character, however, and Anne Hathaway shows command in the central role. There’s magnificent support from Adrian Grenier, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt. The shots of New York City (and of Paris) are grand and impressive, and, as one would expect, the costume designs are stunning, altho few are firstborn for this film. David Frankel’s direction kept things moving at a swift pace, and the DVD extras are agreeably diverting and informative. I enjoyed “The Devil Wears Prada” very much.
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