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2006’s Stunning Sleeper Hit Takes Over the World Ahead of Long-Awaited Sequel
Some movies never really leave the culture. They just wait for the right moment to come back around. That’s what’s happening with The Devil Wears Prada, which is once again pulling in streaming viewers as the long-awaited sequel gets closer. Nearly 20 years later, the movie still feels sharp, funny, and endlessly quotable, which makes this comeback feel less like a surprise and more like a reminder.
The original film has been doing strong business on Disney’s streaming ecosystem just as The Devil Wears Prada 2 ramps up its own publicity ahead of its theatrical release. That overlap is pretty much perfect. The sequel buzz is doing part of the work, but the original movie is also earning its own fresh attention because people still genuinely love it.
The cast includes Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs, Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton, and Stanley Tucci as Nigel. It’s still one of the cleanest examples of a movie growing bigger with time. Ahead of the sequel, streaming viewers are returning to The Devil Wears Prada for exactly the same reasons they fell for it in the first place.
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Is ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Worth Watching?
Roger Ebert‘s review stated that The Devil Wears Prada works best as a fun, glossy career story with two very strong leads. The movie follows Andy, a recent graduate who lands a job at a major fashion magazine and quickly gets pulled into a world that is demanding, exhausting, and impossible to ignore. It is not especially deep, but it is entertaining and easy to get caught up in. The film is stylish, sharp, and full of small moments that make the fashion world feel both ridiculous and exciting. The biggest weakness is that some of the supporting relationships are less convincing, especially Andy’s love life, which does not feel as strong as the rest of the story.
“Meryl Streep is indeed poised and imperious as Miranda, and Anne Hathaway is a great beauty (Ella Enchanted, Brokeback Mountain) who makes a convincing career girl. I liked Stanley Tucci, too, as Nigel, the magazine’s fashion director, who is kind and observant despite being a careerist slave. But I thought the movie should have reversed the roles played by [Adrian] Grenier and [Simon] Baker. Grenier comes across not like the old boyfriend but like the slick New York writer, and Baker seems the embodiment of Midwestern sincerity, which makes sense, because he is from Australia, the Midwest of the southern hemisphere.”
The Devil Wears Prada is streaming now.
- Release Date
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June 29, 2006
- Runtime
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109 minutes
- Director
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David Frankel
- Writers
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Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger
- Producers
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Wendy Finerman
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