The Devil Gets Neutered In Anne Hathaway’s New Trailer

If I want to see cats fight, I have four of them in my home.

By Jennifer Asencio
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The trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2 was released this week, and so far, it seems like merely a visit among the legacy characters with a new character thrown in to make it look like Andy and Miranda have been doing something for the past 20 years. What little of the plot was revealed centers around a scandal Miranda is experiencing, and she has retained her old assistant Andy as a consultant to help navigate the storm.

This results in lots of scenes of Andy with legacy characters Emily and Nigel, trying on clothes and walking around in them, showing off. Once or twice, we’re treated to a snarky comment from Miranda in which she picks on Andy’s sense of fashion or down-home sensibility. It’s as though nothing has changed at the magazine Miranda is editor of, not even the styles the models are adorned in.

We are treated to bits of recap from the original film, when Andy is telling newcomer Amari all about her adventures in the previous film. What we’re not shown a lot of is what is going to happen next. None of the lines are funny on their own. Some of them are sarcastic and caustic but most of them are just Andy, Emily, and Miranda sniping at one another like three little boys in an insult contest, with Andy taking the brunt of the attacks, as usual.

Sure, there’s lots of pretty clothes and shots of big fancy parties in big fancy places where people strut around like living mannequins to exhibit the fashions, and I suppose that’s the main thing we want from a Devil Wears Prada movie, but the majority of the trailer was merely a commercial for Paris Fashion Week with a few celebrities in the mix.

More Of The Same 20 Years In The Making

Not even the presence of new addition Simone Ashley as Amari could save the trailer. Ashley, known for her role as Olivia in the British high school comedy drama Sex Education, and as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton, plays the girl working the post Andy formerly worked. Ashley’s strength as an actress is in playing “bitches with a heart of gold,” and she seems typecast as the cold and disdainful Amari, but the character fits right into Miranda Priestly’s world.

The strength of the first movie was how Andy was a fish out of water at the fashion magazine while Amari seems to be an Emily-in-training. I don’t know what the movie gains by circling the wagons around women whose main sport is cutting one another down, but the trailer indicates that Ashley’s talent is going to be wasted playing yet another Olivia or Kate Shwarma.

The Sequel Trailer Ain’t Sequeling

It has been exactly 20 years since the iconic hit comedy The Devil Wears Prada was released. Anne Hathaway starred as Andy Sachs, a young intern fresh out of college who wants to become a journalist, but winds up hired into the fashion magazine world of Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the most demanding boss in Manhattan.

Throughout the movie, Miranda exercises her power as a fashion maven with an iron grip over her entire staff, including Andy, Miranda’s other co-assistant Emily (Emily Blunt), and fashion guru Nigel (Stanley Tucci), demanding such impossible tasks as an airline flight during a hurricane and an advance copy of the then-unpublished sixth Harry Potter novel. The movie was based on a book by Lauren Weisberger about her time working for fashion icon Anna Wintour, and both book and movie skewer the industry through the Wintour analog of Miranda. The movie was such a runaway success that even Wintour loved it, despite it parodying her.

A sequel should deliver on more of the same from its predecessor while also adding something new. The Devil Wears Prada 2 seems to give us the “more of the same part,” but seems to have avoided giving audiences much that is all that new in favor of a cynical and nostalgic cash grab that seems a mere remake of the original movie with some extra ambition on Andy’s part thrown in for good measure. Is Andy still going to be the innocent, or have the intervening 20 years turned her fully into another Miranda?

After watching this trailer, I’m not sure I care. If I want to see cats fight, I have four of them in my home. I don’t need to pay money to a theater to watch them do it on screen for no reason. At least the first movie was funny, but this trailer is devoid of humor and did not make me want to see a movie that I’ve been excited about since it was announced.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 hits theaters on May 1, 2026.