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The Devil Wears Prada 2 has won widespread praise by critics - with the sequel being dubbed 'a glorious, glamorous tribute to the Noughties'.
The follow-up to the iconic 2006 hit, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, left fans nervous of its pursuit of a similarly iconic production - however the product has been deemed a 'sublime' return to the world of Runway.
The original movie follows the story of Anne Hathaway's character Andy Sachs, the well-meaning intern at Runway magazine, ruled with platinum-clad steeliness by Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly, which became a massive international hit.
Based on Lauren Weisberger's 2003 book, the film centres around Meryl's character Miranda Priestly - a take on Vogue powerhouse Anna Wintour - and has made a triumphant return called 'good-natured, buoyant entertainment.'
The Independent, Daily Mail, Telegraph and Times all crowned the movie with four stars while the lowest reviews were a respectable three, as critics stated: 'It's a savvy circular touch that brings Weisberger's book back into play'.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 has won widespread praise by critics - with the sequel being dubbed 'a glorious, glamorous tribute to the Noughties'
Alongside a four star review, The Independent's Clarisse Loughrey pays tribute to Meryl, Anne and their co-stars Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt.
She writes: 'The main quartet were so well-suited to their original roles that all Streep needs to do is play thoughtfully with a beaded necklace and, instantly, it's like Miranda never left us...
'Andy is no longer the naïf, but we've enjoyed two decades of increasingly confident, impassioned characters from Hathaway, so the maturation is basically a given...
'Blunt happily walks away with some of the best line deliveries (when Andy pushes back on Emily's declaration that luxury fashion is more accessible with the question who, exactly, can afford a $3,000 bag, she snorts back, 'Have you of Christmas?')'.
Amy Nicholson of the LA Times penned: 'The storytelling is wonky, given the film's competing needs to be Miranda-blunt about the modern magazine business while pairing marvelously with a glass of rosé...
'The movie is simultaneously more depressing than the original and more saccharine, with a repellent amount of affection between characters who should know better.'
Former Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman used her real life experiences to reflect on the movie, with an eventual four star review.
The follow-up to the iconic 2006 hit, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway , left fans nervous of its pursuit of a similarly iconic production - however the product has been deemed a 'sublime' return to the world of Runway
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THE INDEPENDENT
Rating:
FOUR STARS
The main quartet were so well-suited to their original roles that all Streep needs to do is play thoughtfully with a beaded necklace and, instantly, it's like Miranda never left us. Andy is no longer the naïf, but we've enjoyed two decades of increasingly confident, impassioned characters from Hathaway, so the maturation is basically a given. Blunt happily walks away with some of the best line deliveries
EMPIRE
Rating:
THREE STARS
Hathaway maintains plucky affability despite her character becoming more world-weary, while Blunt's comedic timing and flashes of vulnerability save the film from feeling too serious... At its epicentre, Streep lets us a little deeper into Miranda's psyche without losing that magnetic elusiveness. Her power survives intact, even if she's not given a worthy adversary to unleash it upon.
THE GUARDIAN
Rating:
THREE STARS
This follow-up is fun, though let down by Andy's bafflingly dreary and chemistry-free romance with a dull Australian real estate magnate (a tepid role for Patrick Brammall from TV's Colin from Accounts)... This is good-natured, buoyant entertainment. It's wearing well.
THE TELEGRAPH
Rating:
FOUR STARS
An avalanche of fashion-world cameos and a crack returning cast turn this sequel into a millennial nostalgia bath – who's complaining? Like Tom Cruise grinning away in the cockpit in Top Gun: Maverick, Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly is back, exactly as you remember.
The film is a glorious, glamorous tribute to the noughties with acid wit and unabashed love of luxury and glamour, making a product of an earlier age'
THE TIMES
Rating:
FOUR STARS
It's a savvy circular touch that brings Weisberger's book back into play and provides the drama with that most elusive of modern film accessories: satisfying closure... Hathaway once again injects Andy with just the right hint of perky naivety to maintain her status as the clueless straight woman to her co-star's scheming diva.
THE DAILY MAIL: BRIAN VINER
Rating:
FOUR STARS
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is smart and funny, and there are plenty of satisfying one-liners indicating how the world has changed in 20 years. I laughed aloud at one of them, when a disaffected books editor complains about her latest project 'editing a memoir by one of Paris Hilton 's chihuahuas.
THE DAILY MAIL: ALEANDRA SHULMAN
Rating:
FOUR STARS
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is endlessly self-referential, harking back to some of the best jokes in the original, while also uncannily predicting situations the new order throws up. It's high-voltage, sparkling fun. And some fun is surely what we all need right now.
VARIETY
The good news is that 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' is not willfully enshittified. It's a sequel made with intelligence and respect for both its predecessor and the legions who still love it, so much so that it functions less as a follow-up than as a kind of tribute act, albeit one featuring all the original talent — picking out the comic and dramatic highs from the first film and faithfully replaying them with the same moves and cadences. But it is, by almost any metric, a lesser movie: narratively, emotionally and cinematically flatter, buoyed by game performances that nonetheless steadfastly fail to surprise.
FINANCIAL TIMES
Some things don't change, though. In the new film, one Runway editor asks of a corporate type intent on cost-cutting: 'Does he even like fashion, he wears Drakkar Noir,' dismissing him as 'dressing head to toe in performance synthetics'. Magazines may have passed their heyday, but the spicy put-downs endure.
She writes: 'Anyone who has a more forensic approach to film might question Andy's clumsily added-on love interest and Miranda's equally unlikely soppy husband, played by Kenneth Branagh...
'They could definitely quibble about the ludicrous way Andy is brought back into the magazine and grumble about the ponderous start...
'But they couldn't deny that it's high-voltage, sparkling fun. And some fun is surely what we all need right now.'
Both The Times and The Telegraph, gave four stars to the movie, which was deemed a 'glorious, glamorous tribute to the noughties' with 'acid wit and unabashed love of luxury and glamour'.
Both The Times and The Telegraph, gave four stars to the movie, which was deemed a 'glorious, glamorous tribute to the noughties' with 'acid wit and unabashed love of luxury and glamour'
The Daily Mail's Brian Viner offered four stars alongside the words: 'So, this eagerly awaited sequel, with the same director-writer combination in Frankel and Aline Brosh McKenna, has expensive Jimmy Choos to fill...
'Happily it steps into them pretty stylishly, with the original quartet returning and doing as fine a job as you might expect of Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt...
'In truth it isn’t quite as enjoyable as the first film, because the satire doesn’t bite as hard. That’s maybe because its target is not so much fashion as journalism and publishing....
Heaven knows, those domains aren’t exactly immune from mickey-taking either, but the mockery doesn’t flow as easily. Nonetheless, The Devil Wears Prada 2 is smart and funny, and there are plenty of satisfying one-liners indicating how the world has changed in 20 years.
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